A Not-So-Ordinary Case Files Around the World

Leeches sign up for medical science

USA

Except maybe for scared babes clinging to you for dear life, you know leeches are up to no good. But the US Food and Drug Administration has just approved the used of the suckers for medical purposes. Following the ancient Indian and Egytian tradition of using these blood-sucking parasites to cure anything from headaches to  gout, doctors today use leeches during transplant and reattachment surgeries, relieving possible coagulation. Oh, but there’s more. Enzymes found in medicinal leeches have been effective as an anti-aging ingredient. So the next time you see the missus applying the bad-tasting cold cream around her eye, throw her a leech and get her looking young, and clinging onto you.

Man cuts off penis, feeds happy dog

Romania

A nisy cock wouldn’t let the busy Romanian fall asleep one evening,  so he decided to go out and snuff the bird out. But the grogginess of being awoken must have gotten to him he mistook the cock’s neck for his, uhm, penis and proceeded to chop off his junor. There’s more — the irate man actually throw his schlong to the mutt. “What could I do with a piece of penis?” the pissed-off 67-year-old complained at the hospital. How about “to stitch it back, idiot!”

Grandma wrestles perky crocodile

Australia

When a 13-foot crocodile gragged a man out from his camping tent, a 60-year-old woman came to the rescue by jumping on the back of the croc. She was camping near the luckless man, saw what had happened, and figured she had enough estrogens to wrestle a fully grown croc. When the match was over, grandma has a broken arm; the coward she saved a broken arm and leg; the croc dead–shot by a second rescuer who was smart enough to realize he was just a wee human.

Meat haters take it to the extreme

Thailand

The annual Vegetarian Festival in Phuket gathered not just some of the staunchest vegans. Also present were hardcore Hindu devotees who performed acts of self-multilation. Tui poked their faces with knives, power tools, skewers, and even bicycle pipings, devotional acts of fire walking, bladder ladder climbing, and hot oil bathing were carried out as well. The vegetarian festival begins on the first evening of the ninth lunar month and last for nine days.

Scary artists produce ‘blood art’

Chile

Chilean artists are becoming more and more adventurous in choosing materials to creat art. Artist Prem Sarjo used blood as the main material in all his works exhibited in Chile. Most shocking of the lot is where Sarjo used blood to write the lyrics of the Chilean national anthem, backwards at that. The exhibit also features two other artists: Joaquin Ortuzar, who also used blood, and an artist called Bonzo, who used blood and semen. it was not specified, however, whose blood it was they used.