Strange-Man calls 911 for No-show Strippers

Franklin police said the 37-year-old Illinois man told them he spent $1,000 on lap dances from two exotic dancers at the On The Border gentlemen's club, and the women promised to visit his room at a local motel later in the morning for "on the house" lap dances, Wauwatosa (Wis.) Now.com reports.

The man called police at 1:26 a.m. to report the strippers hadn't shown up and he felt he had been cheated

Inappropriate -Smashbomb beer too violent

LONDON, Ont. – The suds cops at the Liquor Control Board of Ontario have stamped out a popular beer made by a Barrie, Ont., micro-brewery because they deem inappropriate the name and cartoonish label of Smashbomb Atomic IPA. Flying Monkeys Craft Brewery shared the news with angry fans on Facebook and on bartowel.com, a forum that bills itself as Ontario's premier beer resource.

"It's things like this that makes me sad to live in Ontario. Especially when I travel to the U.S. and am faced with an entire wall of unique, reasonably priced craft-brewed beer," one fan wrote on Facebook.

The brew, hoppy India pale ale, has been a smash hit on tap at London, Ont.'s Morrisey House, where it quickly sold out late last year and was re-ordered for this month.

Small-New Yorker Felice Cohen lives in a micro apartment measuring just 8.3 square metres

THERE'S small and then there's this apartment - a US woman has spent three years living in a 8.3 square metre room in New York's Upper West Side - so tiny the ceiling is less than 60 centimetres from her face when she sleeps. The bathroom is so cramped that Felice Cohen has to sit on her side to use the toilet.

She told the Daily Mail the apartment felt so cramped on the first night she slept there, she suffered a panic attack. However, three years on Ms Cohen says it's been worth it, with her rent coming in at just $US700 ($672), while her neighbours pay around $US3000 ($2880) for a small apartment to live in the exclusive Manhattan enclave.

Dumb- Police nab convict who escaped custody by fax

Spanish police caught a convict who twice escaped from custody after his wife sent fake faxes ordering his release.Police found Jose Carlos Serna, 57, on Thursday hidden in a sofa at his suburban home in San Lorenzo de El Escorial, near Madrid, police said. His wife, Gema Maria Serna, was also arrested.

After receiving a fax that appeared to be from a regional court, and two follow-up calls from his wife who claimed to be a court official, officers released Serna to a waiting taxi.Last October, the convict escaped from Valdemoro jail using the same tactic.Serna was in prison for being the ringleader of a gang who kidnapped a Spanish businessman in 2008 and held him captive.To avoid capture after the latest escape, Serna rented apartments in Madrid and a house in Boadilla, had several cell phones, and hired drivers. He told his drivers he was an Italian university economics professor.

Strong-Man uses fake leg to take down armed robber

MIDDLETON, Mass. — A Massachusetts man who used his prosthetic leg to take down a robber says he didn't have time to think, he just reacted. Stephen Cornell peered through the window of his neighborhood convenience store in Middleton on Wednesday and saw a man pointing a gun at the owner.He tells The Salem News he intended to tackle the thief when he left JC Grill & Pizza, but instead stuck out his artificial leg and tripped him.Cornell and owner Edson Andrade disarmed the thief and dragged him back into the store in a chokehold before calling police. The weapon was a pellet gun.

The 55-year-old Cornell lost his leg at age 12.

Peace-
International Pillow Fight Day sees feathers fly worldwide

Cities around the globe were filled with hundreds of thousands of pillow-brandishing types for the event, from New York's

Union Square

to Nelson's Column in London and the Dr Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall in Taipei. Started by The Urban Playground Movement, International Pillow Fight Day sees participants smack each other around with their feather-filled weapons.The organisation's mission is to make more use of public spaces and ultimately replace the world's couch-potato habits.In the UK capital, participants showed up for the 2011 event wearing pyjamas, dressing gowns and fancy dress