New Strange vehicle-Man combines boat with lawnmower

John’s ‘Shortcutter’, made from a sit-on lawnmower and an old boat, can chug along the roads at a ‘relaxing’ 9kph (6mph), then take to the water at the

 first sign of a snarl-up. Of course, with a top speed that could cause more traffic jams than it solves and a propeller that spins wildly behind it on dry land, the four-wheeler is still very much a work in progress. But Mr Hinton hopes future models could revolutionise the way we travel. The 76-year-old said: ‘In theory, you could go anywhere on it – it would be just as good as a normal car. A YouTube video of Mr Hinton’s invention has attracted bemused interest since he uploaded it two months ago. And the retired insurance broker, of Horsham in West Sussex, has even been in touch with Honda about mass production of his vehicle. 

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to Marry-Hamburger lovers marry in Mexican McDonald's

MONTERREY, Mexico - It was Big Macs, chicken nuggets and fries at a wedding banquet in Northern Mexico Friday.Fast-food fanatics Carlos Munoz and Marisela Matienzo tied the knot at a McDonald's in an upscale district of Monterrey, Mexico's most Americanized city."Some of our guests thought it was a joke. Our parents were resigned to it," Matienzo told local media.The local franchise for McDonald's Corp said the wedding was the first in one of its outlets in Latin America, a custom that has already taken off in Hong Kong for people seeking to depart from traditional marriage protocols.

Trick or treat-Shop owner sells himself winning lottery ticket

BELLE VERNON, Pa. — A shop owner in western Pennsylvania has sold himself a winning $1.8 million lottery ticket — and as the seller of the ticket, he'll get an extra $10,000.

Ron Rea owns Tobacco World stores in Uniontown and Belle Vernon. He bought the winning ticket for the Nov. 18 Match 6 Lotto drawing at the Belle Vernon store.Rea says he doesn't play the lottery's Daily Number, but he spends about $20 a day on tickets for games with higher odds, telling the Herald-Standard of Uniontown, "If you hit, your life's changed."Rea's ticket was worth $1,782,432. A lottery spokeswoman confirmed Rea's claim to the winning ticket.The 68-year-old Rea says the winnings will help him and his wife of 38 years, Rita, build their retirement funds.

Wow-Chicken sore after laying 4 inch egg

The monster egg measures a whopping 9cm by 5.7cm (2.2ins) and is more than twice the size of a normal egg. It was laid by Bolt, a 20-week-old chicken from Christchurch, Dorset, who has only been lying for three weeks. Owner Denise Sloan, a 52-year-old gardener, said she has never seen such a large egg despite owning chickens for 15 years. The egg, which has not been fertilised, is now destined for the dinner plate.

She said of Bolt’s impressive achievement: ‘I don't know what the world record is, but all I can say is she is pretty bow-legged now.’ ‘It's enormous, bigger than a duck egg.’ And for anyone wondering what to make with the egg, Denise described its size in food terms: ‘You could make two omelettes out of it.’ 

Smart Idea-Woman claims ownership of sun, wants to tax it

AFTER billions of years the Sun finally has an owner - a woman from Spain's soggy region of Galicia says she's registered the star at a local notary public as being her property.

Angeles Duran, 49, told the online edition of daily El Mundo she took the step in September after reading about an American man who had registered himself as the owner of the moon and most planets in our Solar System. There is an international agreement which states that no country may claim ownership of a planet or star, but it says nothing about individuals, she added."There was no snag, I backed my claim legally, I am not stupid, and I know the law. I did it but anyone else could have done it, it simply occurred to me first."

The document issued by the notary public declares Duran to be the "owner of the Sun, a star of spectral type G2, located in the centre of the solar system, located at an average distance from Earth of about 149,600,000 kilometres".

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