Proof that Smoking Stunts Your Growth

Bill, age 70 has been a 2 pack a day smoker since he was 4.

Thief ate everything

Norway - Salten county court sentenced the 24-year-old man from Bod� to six months immediate imprisonment for the food theft. In addition, the man was sentenced for seven other thefts, threats, shoplifting and a number of other offences.

The man entered the apartment by climbing up the fire escape and entered an unlock balcony door. He explained in court that he stayed in the apartment for several days and ate all the food he found in the fridge, the freezer and in the kitchen cupboards.

The owner said that when he returned home he found his apartment a mess and there were nothing left to eat.

The court�s judgment stated that the defendant appears to have difficulties concentrating, but the court did not doubt that the defendant was sound of mind.

Blow-up bride proved deadly

A Brazilian man who considered an inflatable puppet his "bride" killed his parents because they demanded he divorce her, media reports said today.

The 44-year-old unemployed man apparently confessed to the crime, which occurred on Saturday, after a long interrogation by police in a suburb of Sao Paulo city, a police spokesman said. "The man thought the doll was a human being, called her his bride and talked to her," an acquaintance of the family was quoted as saying. But his parents, who were religious, demanded he separate from the doll.

When the mother took scissors and cut holes in the man's "bride", the man strangled and stabbed his father, age 70, and mother, age 71. "My parents didn't love me and didn't understand me," the man was quoted as saying.