February’s Unusual Bizarre & Weird News

Well what are you waiting for? Start drinking like a frog! Photo Courtesy: Yamanaka Tamaki
Well what are you waiting for? Start drinking like a frog! Photo Courtesy: Yamanaka Tamaki

By Andrew J. Hewett

DON’T CROAK, DRINK A FROG
You feeling sick? A cure might be waiting in the South American Andean Mountains. Folks there treat themselves by grinding up and drinking the juice from Telmatobius culeus, a water frog found in remote Lake Titicaca. Blended with carrots, Peruvian maca root and honey, it is used to treat anemia, bronchitis, bones, fatigue, stress and the brain.

WHAT? NO COOKIES WITH THAT?
A Berlin newspaper, The Local, reported from Darmstadt, Germany, an unusually-aggressive woman robbed a pharmacy of 100 Euro (about $125 U.S.). Her modus operandi was raising her skirt and distracting the clerk by squirting breast milk in his direction from her “spigots.”

TURN HIM INTO DRUMSTICKS?
An Oregon judge has ordered Megan Keller to find her bird a new home within a week or face heavy fines. That’s because “Mr. Rooster” was reported six times in five months for disturbing neighbors by crowing. Otherwise, he warned, three citations could cost her up to $1,000. Keller explained why she had a pet rooster, saying when her feathered pet was little she thought he was a she.