Most bizarre news stories of 2011

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Updated On Dec 21, 2011 04:25 pm IST

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Mizoram Man With 39 Wives, 94 Children And 33 Grandchildren: The man with the most wives on earth is the strangest news story of 2011 according to Ripley's Believe It Or Not!, considered to be an authority on all things odd, amazing and unusual. Here's a look at other stories, which when reported, shocked and surprised all.

Updated on Dec 21, 2011 04:25 pm IST

Mizoram Man With 39 Wives, 94 Children And 33 Grandchildren: The man with the most wives on earth is the strangest news story of 2011 according to Ripley's Believe It Or Not!, considered to be an authority on all things odd, amazing and unusual. Here's a look at other stories, which when reported, shocked and surprised all.

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Implanting Organs In The Name Of Art: Australian performance artist Stelarc spent 10 years before finally finding a surgeon who would give him an ear transplant - in his arm! He had a human ear grown beneath the skin of his arm as part of a project to share what it hears with people around the world. The artist uses medical material, robots and systems of virtual reality to explore the relation of these systems with the human body.

Updated on Dec 21, 2011 04:25 pm IST

Implanting Organs In The Name Of Art: Australian performance artist Stelarc spent 10 years before finally finding a surgeon who would give him an ear transplant - in his arm! He had a human ear grown beneath the skin of his arm as part of a project to share what it hears with people around the world. The artist uses medical material, robots and systems of virtual reality to explore the relation of these systems with the human body.

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Liechtenstein For Hire At $70,000 A Night: What's cooler than renting out your own country? For $70,000 you can rent out the entire country of Liechtenstein. You and 149 of your closest friends can spend the night, sip wine with the prince, go sledding, ride in a horse-drawn carriage and more.

Updated on Dec 21, 2011 04:25 pm IST

Liechtenstein For Hire At $70,000 A Night: What's cooler than renting out your own country? For $70,000 you can rent out the entire country of Liechtenstein. You and 149 of your closest friends can spend the night, sip wine with the prince, go sledding, ride in a horse-drawn carriage and more.

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Blind Dog Gets Own Guide Dog: What do you do when your guide dog goes blind? Easy, you get him a guide dog. UK man Graham Waspe's labrador Edward lost his eyes to glaucoma after six years of outstanding service, so he enlisted Opal, another guide dog to steer them both.

Updated on Dec 21, 2011 04:25 pm IST

Blind Dog Gets Own Guide Dog: What do you do when your guide dog goes blind? Easy, you get him a guide dog. UK man Graham Waspe's labrador Edward lost his eyes to glaucoma after six years of outstanding service, so he enlisted Opal, another guide dog to steer them both.

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'Cemetery Collector' With 29 Bodies Arrested: Russian police arrested a man for digging up 29 female corpses and turning them into life-sized dolls dressed in period costumes. Most were faceless, some wore blond wigs.

Updated on Dec 21, 2011 04:25 pm IST

'Cemetery Collector' With 29 Bodies Arrested: Russian police arrested a man for digging up 29 female corpses and turning them into life-sized dolls dressed in period costumes. Most were faceless, some wore blond wigs.

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Alabama Company Turns Gun Lovers' Ashes Into Ammunition: An Alabama company called Holy Smoke will turn cremated ashes into ammunition so family and friends can fire off a few rounds of the deceased for a small fee! A pound of ash gets you about 250 shotgun shells. Talk about going out with a bang!

Updated on Dec 21, 2011 04:25 pm IST

Alabama Company Turns Gun Lovers' Ashes Into Ammunition: An Alabama company called Holy Smoke will turn cremated ashes into ammunition so family and friends can fire off a few rounds of the deceased for a small fee! A pound of ash gets you about 250 shotgun shells. Talk about going out with a bang!

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Mexican Vampire Woman Immortalized In Wax: Vampires supposedly live forever, but one "real-life vampire" isn't leaving that to chance. Maria Jose Cristerna, a 35-year-old former attorney from Mexico, is better known as the "Mexican Vampire Woman" for her horns, fangs and head-to-toe tattoos. Now the blood-curdling appearance will be captured for future generations to ogle at Ripley's Believe It or Not!

Updated on Dec 21, 2011 04:25 pm IST

Mexican Vampire Woman Immortalized In Wax: Vampires supposedly live forever, but one "real-life vampire" isn't leaving that to chance. Maria Jose Cristerna, a 35-year-old former attorney from Mexico, is better known as the "Mexican Vampire Woman" for her horns, fangs and head-to-toe tattoos. Now the blood-curdling appearance will be captured for future generations to ogle at Ripley's Believe It or Not!

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Stop Wearing Bunny Suit, Police Tell Idaho Man: Police in Idaho Falls told a man to stop wearing a bunny suit in public after complaints that he had been frightening children. Some residents felt the 34 year old man went too far when he donned a skirt with his bunny suit. Others came to the defence of this rare hare.

Updated on Dec 21, 2011 04:25 pm IST

Stop Wearing Bunny Suit, Police Tell Idaho Man: Police in Idaho Falls told a man to stop wearing a bunny suit in public after complaints that he had been frightening children. Some residents felt the 34 year old man went too far when he donned a skirt with his bunny suit. Others came to the defence of this rare hare.

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Airport Geese To Be Cooked For Poor: In what could be called a real-life game of angry birds, New York City Airport officials hatched a unique plan to get rid of hundreds of nuisance geese by killing them and shipping them off to food banks in Pennsylvania.

Updated on Dec 21, 2011 04:25 pm IST

Airport Geese To Be Cooked For Poor: In what could be called a real-life game of angry birds, New York City Airport officials hatched a unique plan to get rid of hundreds of nuisance geese by killing them and shipping them off to food banks in Pennsylvania.

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Missus In A Bottle: Richard Morwood was stunned to discover that his wife is the same girl whose message in a bottle he answered 30 years ago. Mandy English was 13 when she went searching for a pen pal with a note in a bottle. Morwood, then six years old, found her bottle washed up on a beach and wrote her back. The two did not realize the amazing coincidence until 2011.

Updated on Dec 21, 2011 04:25 pm IST

Missus In A Bottle: Richard Morwood was stunned to discover that his wife is the same girl whose message in a bottle he answered 30 years ago. Mandy English was 13 when she went searching for a pen pal with a note in a bottle. Morwood, then six years old, found her bottle washed up on a beach and wrote her back. The two did not realize the amazing coincidence until 2011.

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Japanese Tsunami Survivor Found 10 Miles Out At Sea: Japanese troops rescued 60 year-old Hiromitsu Shinkawa who floated out to sea on the roof of his home after the devastating tsunami in Japan; he was found on the roof of his floating house two days later – nearly 10 miles out at sea.

Updated on Dec 21, 2011 04:25 pm IST

Japanese Tsunami Survivor Found 10 Miles Out At Sea: Japanese troops rescued 60 year-old Hiromitsu Shinkawa who floated out to sea on the roof of his home after the devastating tsunami in Japan; he was found on the roof of his floating house two days later – nearly 10 miles out at sea.

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