Mothers Union to Knit Big Breasts

Irelands National Health Service (NHS) has ordered 150 wooven breasts as teaching aids for new mothers. NHS officials will use the big fuzzy teats to tech nursing skills to expectant mums.

"In the past our breastfeeding trainers had to use balloons to demonstrate feeding skills, but when I heard the Mothers' Union did knitting of clothes for premature babies, I asked if they would be prepared to knit 150 breasts so I could make them available as a training aid to every health visitor, community nurse and nursery nurse involved in supporting new breastfeeding mums. - Louise Stickland of NHS told The Belfast Telegraph

Strickland added: "To my delight, they agreed and enrolled four of their best knitters, who have done an outstanding job." Get the details

Bagpiper Scares Rats Out of Austrian Sewers

How about a nice vacation in the sewers of Vienna, Austria. Believe it or not The Third Man Tours leads groups romping through the catacomb of drains under the famous city. But wait, city safety inspectors shut down the tours over fears that the rats may rebel against the vacationers, possibly causing injury or disease if anybody was bitten.

Enter the pied piper, it seems that rats don't like bagpipes, go figure. The long whaling tones of the bagpipes flush the rats right out of the cities sewer, clearing the way for the tours.

Peter Ryborz of Third Man Tours explained: "We get rid of the rats by taking a bagpipe player down with us, and they sound really great in the catacombs that tunnel all under the city.

"You can hear them coming out of drains as the tours walk around under the city." Read all about it

Would-be Thieves Destroy Bank But Leave Empty Handed

Mecklenburg, Germany -  The bank was leveled, the entire neighborhood was shook, police were on the scene in just minutes, nothing was missing except the suspects.

"... when the dust settled, the bank was completely gone, a few cars were destroyed but the bank's safe was still there," said one neighbour.

Investigators are working on the assumption that explosives, possibly made from petrol or acetylene, were placed near the entrance to the bank, in the village of Malliss in northern Germany. A delivery van parked near the site of the explosion suggests that the suspects may have planned to drive off with the ATM. However the ATM was left intact after the explosion. Get the details