Around the Weird: Bizarre News Briefs

Around the Weird: Bizarre News Briefs

NEW BRITAIN, Conn. (Wireless Flash) – Maybe Target should change its bull’s eye logo – it’s attracting reckless drivers. One woman not only plowed through the locked front door of the New Britain, Connecticut, store – she drove around the aisles.

EL TONCO, Argentinia – The pesky chupacabras that have been bugging Chile have tangoed their way through the Andes mountains into Argentina. Sources say the sightings of the creature correspond with a recent increase in UFO sightings.

MAMVUKA VILLAGE, S.A. – The term “getting your goat” has new meaning in Mamvuka Village, South Africa. Residents of the tiny town are trying to avoid catching AIDS by regularly having sex with goats instead.

HONG KONG – Hong Kong’s parks and neighborhoods are beset with hordes of purse-snatching, food-begging wild monkeys. To combat the overpopulation, the Chinese government has begun a monkey birth control program where males are captured and sterilized with an immunovaccine that also renders the females infertile for five years.