Thirty-nine-year-old Debbie Bird claims she is allergic to modern living and says mobile phones, microwaves and cars are banned from her house. Bird said she is sensitive to electromagnetic fields (emf) or "smog" created by computers, microwave ovens, mobile phones and some cars, and that she develops skin rashes and her eyelids swell to three times their normal size if she gets exposed to them.

Being skinny can sometimes be beneficial for jail inmates as it was for a 28-year-old man who literally squeezed through small windows on Gary City Jail cell doors by taking off his clothes. Artez Kenyetta Knox squeezed his escape out of the windows on Saturday that are just the right size for a tray of food to slide in. However, Knox, who weighs 130 pounds, was caught walking in a jail hallway by a correction officer.

Apparently not everyone appreciates the surprise of seeing their homes fully refurbished and redecorated with someone else's creative eye rather than their own. A German man was distraught to come home to his apartment after a weekend getaway to find his fridge replaced, walls repainted, windows cleaned, and new furniture installed.

Tired of the vending machines that don't yield what you want? Well now you have the option of punching the new human vending machine in Japan if it does not dispense your product. Located in Shibuya's Hachiko square in Tokyo, Japan, it is the first human vending machine ever made. Instead of the machine dispensing the products there is a human operator that gives the products.

A man who was arrested numerous times for breaking into storefront windows to satisfy his fetish for female shaped mannequins has been sentenced to more than a year in prison. Ronald Dotson, 39, of Detroit, will serve 18 months to 30 years after being convicted of breaking and entering and being a habitual criminal. Dotson has been arrested seven times, the last time in October after police found him near a smashed store window. The window had a mannequin in it dressed in a French maid outfit.