This week’s weird news includes an over-keen cherry spitter, a fight picker, a nation without a sportsman and lastly a Japanese smile measure machine.

A man was almost killed in Rodgau, Germany when, attempting to show friends he could spit a cherry pit the farthest off of a balcony, made a running start but accidentally toppled over the railing. He was hospitalised with hip injuries.

A 22-year-old man was arrested in Kitsap, Wash., in August after tossing a barrage of rocks at people, leading some to chase him until police intervened. The man explained that he is preparing to enter Ultimate Fighting Championship contests but had never actually been in a fight and wanted experience at getting beaten up.

Thousands of Koreans, and some tourists, uninhibitedly joined in the messy events of July’s Byryeong City Mud Festival, which glorifies the joys of an activity usually limited to pigs. Mud wrestling, mud-sliding, a “mud prison” and coloured mud baths dominated the week’s activities, but so unfortunately did dermatological maladies, which hospitalised 200 celebrants.

National Specialties: In May, Singapore’s Olympic Council, finding no athlete good enough, declined to name a national Sportsman of the Year.

A survey of industrialised nations by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development revealed that Japanese and Koreans sleep the least, while the French spend the most time at both sleeping and eating.

A Tokyo rail passenger company, Keihin, installed a face-scanning machine recently so that employees, upon reporting for work, can tell whether they are smiling broadly enough to present a good impression.

Source: newsoftheweird.com

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