Odd News for This Week!

One of my favourite sports is football (soccer), you know the game where 22 overpaid men run around chasing a ball for 90 minutes and then collect ridiculously high pay packets for being so talented.

This week in Germany about 600 supporters of Energie Cottbus, a town close to the border with Poland travelled the 380 miles to Gelsenkirchen to watch their favourite team lose yet again. The last 7 games has seen the team beaten in 6 of them. On this occasion they were well beaten 4-0, and the club has apologised for the poor performance of the players, the 600 travelling supporters will now receive compensation in the form of being reimbursed their entrance fee.

James Bond fans will know all about the character 'Q' from the many fictional movies made about the British spy. Now the MI5 (the British Intelligence Agency), is seeking to recruit a real life 'Q'. Technically titled a chief scientific adviser, applicants will need to possess a world class expertise in science and technology. The successful candidate though is unlikely to require an extensive knowledge of the Aston Martin car, a key feature of any driving scenes featuring high speed chases and evading enemies in a number of Bond movies.

Snakes on a plane was not the biggest hit blockbuster movie in recent years. This week in Australia a crate of small baby pythons was being transported by air from the central city of Alice Springs to Melbourne on the southern coast. On leaving, the crate contained 12 fit and healthy snakes, on arriving at its destination just a few hours later only 8 snakes were found in the crate. Tests were hurriedly carried out as it is not uncommon for baby snakes to attack and eat one another. X-rays revealed that this had not happened in this case, airport officials were quick to seal off the plane and fumigate all areas in the hope that if the missing snakes were still alive the fumigation will have killed them off. If travelling soon in that part of the world, I can only warn you to be cautious as you open them overhead lockers.

The final story this week sees us returning to Germany, and a tale of a frog and a bus driver. A driver now faces losing her job after she stopped her vehicle mid route because a frog had stopped in the road in front of her. Not wanting to run the amphibian over, she halted the bus and helped the frog to the side of the road before continuing on with the passengers in the back. Some of these passengers then complained of the unnecessary delay this action caused, she now faces getting sacked from her job over her kind actions, had she kissed it would it have turned into a prince, or just given her warts?

Source: - yahoo news