millbank Posted January 1, 2005 Posted January 1, 2005 Here with a roundup of some of the year's weird events: A Brazilian referee abandons a soccer match in acute embarrassment after reaching into his pocket for a red warning card and pulling out red lacy panties instead. The man's wife is watching the game, and begins divorce proceedings. A bridegroom in Sheffield, England, glues bits of black sock above his eyes after friends shave his eyebrows during his stag. “I could have killed him,” bride Alison Ward says. “He looked like Groucho Marx. But I see the funny side now.” After five children, Romania's Nicolae Popovici and his wife agree to use contraception. However, the condom is too large and, rather than wait for a replacement, he superglues it to his penis so it won't fall off. Afterward, however, it won't come off at all, forcing Mr. Popovici to seek help at the village clinic. A Finnish tax man dies at his desk - and no one notices. It takes his colleagues two days to realize that the 60-year-old auditor isn't just silently poring over people's returns. Johnny Cash's family refuses to allow the late star's song Ring of Fire to be used in a TV commercial for hemorrhoid-relief products. TV producer Sula Miller of Big Grin Productions in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., says she came up with the idea when she was struggling with that uncomfortable medical condition and heard the song on the radio. A blind man in Romania is arrested twice in a month for stealing a car. In his first attempt, Alin Prica, 24, manages to cover a kilometre before smashing into a tree and knocking himself out. Wiser the second time, he enlists a sighted friend and drives 40 kilometres before once again hitting a tree. Weird News
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