THE MAGPIE:POLICE IN Florida have arrested a woman for allegedly attacking her husband with a frozen lasagne.
The suspected case of lasagne abuse occurred in Atlantic Beach where Amanda Trott was having an argument with her husband.
A neighbour called the police and when they arrived, Mr Trott claimed he had been slapped in the face and then had the frozen meal thrown at him by his wife.
It's reported the lasagne hit him on the head. Police say Mrs Trott later admitted to the attack.
"In my opinion, it hurts very much and will cause welts. It's like throwing a block of ice, and it's very heavy," commented Sgt David Cameron.
Mrs Trott was arrested and charged with domestic battery, while her husband was also arrested and charged with an unrelated injunction violation.
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A randy German badger sparked a police manhunt for a sex attacker when his howls of passion were mistaken for a woman screaming.
Police in Linz, in western Germany, scrambled a helicopter and officers with night-vision goggles after members of the public called to alert them about a sex attack in progress.
But as police followed the screams into a nearby forest, the search team stumbled across a pair of mating badgers.
A police spokesman said: "Nervous residents rang the police station and said they had heard several loud, frightened screams of a woman in a forest nearby.
"We scrambled a helicopter with night vision equipment and searched the forest, but we only found wild animals going about their business.
"The mating calls of a badger during the mating season in July and August are easily mistaken for human screaming."
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A couple are getting married this weekend - 22 years after they were born next to each other in the same English hospital ward.
Kelly Robinson and Dale Wilson were born just three days apart at Northampton General Hospital, with their mothers recovering in adjacent beds.
They lived separate lives until they were introduced by a mutual friend in 2006 - exactly 20 years and one day since they first "met".
But the pair only realised their connection when their mums got together and started talking about their births. Ms Robinson, a team manager at Barclaycard, from West Hunsbury, Northamptonshire, said: "I think it is destiny. Everything fell into place when we got together. It felt like we'd known each other for ever."
The couple were re-introduced by Emma Smith - who went to the University of Northampton with Miss Robinson and is a childhood friend of Mr Wilson. The wedding will take place tomorrow at St John the Baptist Church in Kingsthorpe, Northamptonshire, followed by a honeymoon in Cyprus.
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When keen angler Peter Hodge learned he had terminal motor neurone disease, he requested that his remains be mixed with the special groundbait he used to catch fish in his local river.
Widow Caroline Hodge (56) said: "Pete wanted the fish to gobble him up so he could swim up and down the river after his death."
Sixty-one-year-old Hodge, from Puriton, near Bridgewater in Somerset, said he wanted to swim with the fish in the spot where he spent 40 happy years. So, after his death last month, Mr Hodge was cremated in a wicker fishing basket coffin and his ashes were mixed with 30lb of fish food.
Caroline and daughter Sally were the first to catapult balls of the bait into the river Huntspill to signal the start of an angling competition among Mr Hodge's friends.
"It may sound strange," said Mr Hodge before he died, "but it is my dream. To be back in the river catching fish is where I belong. I hope my friends make me proud with their catches."
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A nude intruder fell for a police sting when they chased him out of a swimming pool straight into a hedge of nettles.
The skinny-dipping swimmer and his pals had broken into a pool in Dueren, western Germany, for a midnight plunge when police arrived.
"They were driven out by the officers and they all went separate ways and then one of them jumped over a wall straight into a hedge of nettles. The officers just followed the sound of the screaming," a police spokesman said.