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Man found stuck in chimney

A man found stuck in a chimney claimed he could not remember how he got there.

Police in Burlington, Vermont, in the US received a report of a man crying for help and went to investigate.

They followed the sound until they found footprints in the snow on the roof of a building.

The footprints led to a chimney where officers found a man stuck inside, local media reported.

The man did not live in the building. He was conscious and told police he had been stuck for several hours.

The man told police he had no idea how he got there.

Firefighters had to dismantle the chimney to free him.

Witnesses said the man was covered in soot when they finally pulled him free.

"They smashed it and then took a ladder up the side and had to break in through the side of the building," said Michael Woodhouse, a witness.

"The whole time, they were screaming to get the furnace turned off."

He added: "He said he'd been drinking with his brother and didn't know how he got on to the roof."

The man has not been charged with a crime.

Thief suffers frozen chicken injury

A thief who used a frozen chicken as a tool to break into a cafe was caught after he cut his wrist and was forced to phone an ambulance, Australian police said.

The man stole the chicken during an earlier break-in at a butcher's shop at Macksville, north of Sydney, but came off second best when he tried to use the frozen bird and some rocks to break into a cafe, slashing open his wrist.

"He thought he was dying," a police spokesman who would not be named told Reuters from Macksville police headquarters.

The 20-year-old man dialled an emergency 000 number to call an ambulance and was arrested shortly after being treated by paramedics, he said.

The man was charged with breaking-and-entering and was due to face a local court in nearby Kempsey later on Wednesday.

Lost thief holes up in French bank toilet

A bank robber failed to find any loot in a toilet

A would-be thief's plan to drill his way into a bank backfired when he missed the safe and emerged in the toilet.

The hapless thief was promptly arrested when he got through into the lavatory, French newspaper La Provence reported.

The 21-year-old, who was not named, broke into a building adjoining a branch of Banque Populaire in Marseilles in the early hours.

The man, who came from Belgium, planned to drill his way through to a room housing safe deposit boxes.

Alarms were triggered when he broke through the wall and police caught the man when they arrived on the scene.

Porn film interrupts Super Bowl

Super Bowl viewers were shocked when the game was interrupted by porn

When viewers in Arizona tuned in to watch American football's Super Bowl this weekend they ended up watching porn after the channel was disrupted by an erotic film.

The fans were told by KVOA-TV that they were "dismayed and disappointed" by the incident and the company said that although it only happened on one cable network, it will be investigated to find answers.

Complaints flooded in from angry viewers as their game was replaced with a woman unzipping a man's trousers, before a graphic scene unraveled.

The X-rated interruption happened just after the last touchdown by the Arizona Cardinals, who ended up losing the game to the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Road sign warns of dinosaurs ahead

A road sign warned of 'dinosaurs ahead' after pranksters hacked into the programmable sign.

The sign in Carmel, in the US state of Indiana, warned of "Raptors Ahead Caution, local media reported.

One motorists who saw the sign said: "It's kind of crazy. I'm totally confused. I'm kind of expecting ... dinosaurs to run down the road, or something."

Nancy Heck, a spokeswoman for the city of Carmel, said the sign is owned by contractor Highway Technologies, which operates the programmable signs in the construction area.

The apparent prank comes after a road sign near the University of Texas was similarly hacked with the messages "Caution! Zombies Ahead!" and "Nazi Zombies! Run!!!"

Man caught with pigeons in his trousers

Is that a pair of pigeons in your pants, or are you just pleased to see me?

An Australian traveller was caught with two live pigeons stuffed down his trousers following a trip to the Middle East, customs officers said today.

The 23-year-old man was searched after authorities discovered two eggs in a vitamin container in his luggage, said Richard Janeczko, national investigations manager for the Customs Service.

They found the pigeons wrapped in padded envelopes and held to each of the man's legs with a pair of tights, according to a statement released by the agency. Officials also seized seeds in his money belt and an undeclared eggplant.

The alleged bird smuggler, who arrived in Melbourne on Sunday on a flight from Dubai, was being questioned.

Australia has very strict quarantine regulations on the importation of wildlife, plants and food to protect health, agriculture and the environment of the isolated island nation.

Charges of wildlife smuggling - which carry a maximum penalty of 10 years imprisonment and a fine of 110,000 Australian dollars (£48,600) - could be brought against the man.

Janeczko said the pigeons were not endangered and that the case - as well as the birds, eggs and seeds - had been turned over to the Quarantine Service to assess the health risk associated with bringing the birds into the country.

The Quarantine Service would not comment on the continuing investigation.

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Man 'rides white horse through snow while drunk'

A white horse. Drunken guy not pictured. Snow also not pictured

A man has been accused of public intoxication while riding a white horse during a snowstorm in the northern Wyoming town of Cody.

Police say they cited 28-year-old Benjamin Daniels after they received a call on Sunday afternoon from a motorist concerned that a man was creating a road hazard by riding his horse on a street in conditions with poor visibility, the Billings Gazette reported.

Cody Assistant Police Chief George Menig says officers noticed Daniels was intoxicated after they stopped him to explain that drivers were having difficulty spotting his slow-moving white horse.

Menig said Thursday that Daniels was detained Sunday and released the following day. He will go before a municipal judge later. A friend of Daniels picked up the horse.