Why-Artist Sent to Labour Camp for Public Sex Performance

A CHINESE artist was sentenced to 12 months at a labour camp for having sex during a performance.

Cheng Li, a 57-year-old performance artist, was arrested in March after having sex with his girlfriend in a work called "Art Whore," which was part of a show at a Beijing gallery.The Chinese police failed to appreciate the artistic value of the work, and punished Cheng to a year of hard labor on pornographic art charges.

He was charged with causing 'public disorder". Cheng's lawyer planned to appeal against the verdict.

Cheng Li himself has stated that the philosophy behind his act is that "the popular trend of commercializing art is nothing but a trade of sex for commercial benefits."

Surprise -Man wakes up with mystery tattoo on bottom after routine surgery

Sheng Xianhui only noticed the offending ink a week after the surgery, though - and even then it was only because his wife spotted it while he was getting in the shower. The background to the entire episode seems rather murky, but what is clear from the picture above is that Mr Sheng does indeed now sport a rather fetching tattoo.

Strangely, it translates as 'Stone Disease' and Mr Sheng claims he must have been branded by hospital staff while he was unconscious.The hospital's defence is quite inventive at least - he must have been allergic to the sheets.

Mr Sheng initially went to hospital for gall bladder removal surgery and, when he awoke, said he felt a slight pain in his behind but thought nothing of it. 'After the surgery I felt my right butt top was painful but I thought it was a normal reaction,' he said.

Strange-Facebook lovers name child 'Like'

The 'Like' button on Facebook, as with YouTube's 'thumbs up' feature, is there to let users signal their approval of friends' comments, status updates, photos, videos and the like. And it turns out Lior and Vardit Adler like the 'Like' button itself so much they, like, named their little one after it. 'To me it is important to give my children names that are not used anywhere else, at least not in Israel,' Mr Adler told German Press Agency DPA.

Like joins the couple's other two daughters Dvash ('honey' in Hebrew) and Pie.

'If once people gave Biblical names and that was the icon, then today [the Facebook 'Like'] is one of the most famous icons in the world,' mused Mr Adler, who lives in Hod Hasharon, near Tel Aviv.

Smart-Impaired man drives self to police station: Cops

A man accused of driving drunk drove himself to the police station, RCMP in Newfoundland say.

On Sunday, police received a report of a possible impaired driver near Gander, 300 km northwest of St. John's. As officers left the police station to search for the driver, they noticed a vehicle matching the description of the car entering an employee parking area. Breath samples showed the driver had three times the legal limit of alcohol in his system, police said.

Problem-Exploding watermelons! Acres of crops erupt

Watermelon fields in eastern China are a mess of burst fruit after farmers used growth chemicals in an attempt to make extra money but ended up ruining their crops, state media reported Tuesday. An investigative report by China Central Television found farms in and around Danyang city in Jiangsu province were losing acres of fruit to the problem.

The farmers sprayed forchlorfenuron, a growth accelerator, during overly wet weather and put it on too late in the season, which made the melons burst, CCTV said, citing agricultural experts.

Wrong-Sheriff blames Cheese for false drug test

ASHEVILLE, N.C. — An enzyme found in cheese triggered false drug test results that led North Carolina deputies to think a man with 91 pounds of tortilla dough was actually carrying that much cocaine, the sheriff said. Antonio Hernandez spent four days in an Asheville jail this month before tests by a state lab showed he was carrying food, not drugs.A Buncombe County deputy stopped Hernandez on May 1 and found what turned out to be a mix of cheese, shrimp and tortilla and tamale dough in his truck. A portable kit used by deputies changed colors, indicating the mixture was illegal drugs.

LOL-The owl and the pussycat become friends, YouTube thrilled (video)

Amazing footage of an unlikely, but extremely cute, friendship between an owl and pussycat has taken YouTube by storm.

Nice-Man with ‘Forgive me if I do anything stupid' tattooed on head arrested on assault charge

WELL, you can’t say you weren’t warned...A man with “Please forgive me if I say or do anything stupid. Thank You!” tattooed on his forehead has been arrested on assault charges.Robert Kennedy, 51, of South Carolina, US, also has a biblical verse scrawled on his head.

Bad-Traffic Warden caught on CCTV riding moped wrong way

A TRAFFIC warden eager to dish out tickets was caught by a shop’s CCTV camera appearing to ride his moped the wrong way up a one-way street. Staff at the electrical store were stunned to see footage showing him apparently shaking his fist at people who pointed out his bad driving.He is then seen ticketing cars on a single yellow line.

David Streadwick, 49, who witnessed the incident in Newham, East London, said: “If someone is employed to enforce the law, then they need to abide by it.”