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We’ve reported on some strange stuff here at Newsgab. We’ve had Moose and Horse Hybrids and kittens with two faces.

This week we bring you a lamb, born in New Zealand with seven legs!

This poor freak of nature isn’t the result of scientists attempts to win over the leg of lamb or lamb chop market, its a misprint in embryo formation which has resulted in the lamb being born polydactyl, with many legs, a condition that occurs once in several million sheep!

Farmer Dave Callaghan found the lamb in his field. Two of its legs hung useless behind the forelegs. The lamb walked using its two forelegs and three healthy hind legs.

Veterinarian Steve Williams said the lamb was also hermaphrodite, and was missing a part of its bowel so was unable to pass faeces.

“So where are we going today Dad?” asks a curious 10 year old boy while visiting is father. “We’re running with the bulls today son…” Yes that’s right, a father has taken his 10 year old son to run with the bulls in Pamplona, Spain.

Needless to say, the mother was not impressed, and sought to have the father’s visitation rights removed to protect the child’s “well being” and to teach him a lesson about raising a child. And after contacting the local authorities, a judge was more than happy to grant the mother her request. And what a surprise the father must have had when the police came around to remove the boy from his custody.

But how did the mother find out about all this??? A local paper had run a story on the annual running of the bulls, complete with photos of the event. That’s right, one of the photos contained a bull.. complete with running father and his son.

Walter Reckley, a lorry driver from Germany recently set his truck’s cab ablaze whilst trying to fry himself some sausages.

He decided to cook the sausages because he was running late for a delivery and was feeling rather hungry, luckily he had his trusty mini gas cooker which he used to cook when the truck was stopped.

Today however Reckley did not have the time to stop so instead he chose to cook whilst driving, whilst traveling past Niederwuerschnitz in Saxony (in Germany) the cooker toppled over setting alight his passenger seat.

In turn the fire spread and spread until it had engulfed the entire cab, Reckling was later taken to a local hospital and treated for smoke inhalation where it turned out that he was 3 times over the legal alcohol limit.

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The city of Boston was in a panic earlier today when several electronic devices were found near high traffic areas, bridges and even a subway. Bridges and roads were shut down and the subway service was temporarily suspended. Bomb squads were sent in before the police discovered the devices were apparently harmless.

The devices were simple magnetic lights that were being used as promotional material for the Cartoon Network’s “Aqua Teen Hunger Force” movie. The devices feature characters called the “Mooninites”. The characters, which closely resemble 1970s Atari style graphics, are portrayed on the sign giving the finger.

Turner Broadcasting who own the Cartoon Network issued an apology to the city of Boston. Turner chairman Phil Kent stated “We apologize to the citizens of Boston that part of a marketing campaign was mistaken for a public danger. We appreciate the gravity of this situation and, like any responsible company would, are putting all necessary resources toward understanding the facts surrounding it as quickly as possible.”

Well, the guys who stole this truck were obviously brought up to love their greens!

CBS are reporting that earlier this week a 48-foot refrigerated trailer containing $50,000 worth of Broccoli was stolen from a rented parking space in Villa Park, Chicago.

According to Detective Ed Zorich the target was probably the trailer, not the broccoli.

“What is someone going to do with that amount of produce? On the black market, I can’t imagine that’s something that’s worth money to anybody,” he said.

The detective said that the trailer is now in a stolen-vehicle database but that police had higher priorities than tracking down vegetables. “We have homicides happening in town. We’re not really looking for a truck of broccoli right now.”

What a shame

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A new fast food is making its debut at U.S. fairs this Winter with the fat busting snack - fried Coke

Ping pong-sized balls of batter made with Coca-Cola syrup are deep-fried, then served in a cup, topped with more Coca-Cola syrup, whipped cream, cinnamon sugar and a cherry on the top.

The creator, a chap by the name of Gonzales gave no indication of the calories in his creation and said he would not patent it.

“The best I can hope for is that it’s the original and hopefully the best fried Coke out there,” he said.

But Gonzales said the success of his fried Coke had inspired him. Next year’s fair-goers can look forward to fried Sprite or — for those watching their weight — fried diet Coke.

“We are trying to cut a lot of the sugar out of it. It has less calories but it’s still very, very sweet,” he said.

Web surfers who confused Web site ‘utube’ with ‘YouTube’ ultimately overloaded utube.com and caused it to be down all week. Utube is owned by Universal Tube & Rollform Equipment Corp., a company that sells used machines that make tubes.

Ralph Girkins, Universal Tube’s president, said that it became a problem about two months ago. His company only has 17 employees and his Web site got 68 million hits in Aug. Just before Google Inc. said it would buy YouTube, the utube site crashed.

After adding more server capacity, the site was back up by late Thursday. “Just get me going. I don’t care.” Girkins said. “If I miss a $300,000 sale because of a Web site problem, it doesn’t make any sense to not to fix it.”

Universal Tube, based in suburban Perrysburg and founded in 1985, has about $12 million in annual sales.

The Secret Service has no sense of humor about threats to the President, even from adolescents. Julia Wilson, 14, was removed from class Wednesday by Secret Service agents to discuss a webpage she had during the summer, which she had already taken down.

Julia had made a cartoon on her website with the words “Kill Bush” scrawled above an image of a knife being plunged into President Bush’s hand. Utilizing the popular children’s site MySpace.com, Julia had a group called something like “People that want to stab Bush”, she couldn’t recall exactly; as she soon changed it after learning that such a name could be considered a threat. Apparently, that was not enough to escape notice of the Secret Service.

Beijing has banned TV advertisements for the treatment of intestinal ailments on morning rush hour buses, just in case they upset delicate digestions.

The advertisements, featured “experts” and “sufferers exaggerating and guaranteeing the benefits of certain types of treatments”.

The city broadcasting broadcasting authority insisted, insisted that this type of advertisement was in the best interests of the public. the public had vetoed it, and this had led to a string of complaints from upset consumers’

The broadcasting authorities will continue to show the advertisements but not between 7 a.m. and 9 a.m., as they do not want to upset anyone’s breakfast.

The content would be replaced by Olympic publicity in line with Internet users’ requests for more civilised material, the paper said.

Just what the doctor ordered more state propaganda. I know what would upset my breakfast the most

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An Italian sociologist intends to live in a cave for the next three years. Maurizio Montalbini, extreme measure is in a bid to understand the body’s natural cycle.

The 53-year-old, who moved into his cave home last week spent had already spent a complete year caveman style. However this attempt will be his last, as he feels he is getting to old to carry out this type of experiments.

However it is not entirely back to the stone age as he plans to fortify himself with supplies of honey, nuts and chocolate, as well as mineral supplements.

Sr Montalbini, is already a keen caver, and he has fortuitously chosen a cave with a small stream, so that he will have access to drinking water.

“I’ve signed a letter authorising those who monitor me outside, my friends from the underground laboratory, Underlab, to let me spend three years in the grotto, no more,” Mr Montalbini told Italy’s La Repubblica newspaper.