A tattoo artist's revenge, and more

A tattoo artist's revenge

An Ohio tattoo artist tattooed a pile of excrement on his girlfriend’s back after he learned she had cheated on him. Ryan Fitzjerald had been asked by girlfriend Rossie Brovent to tattoo her back with a scene from the Narnia fantasy series. Instead, after first getting her to sign a document allowing him to use his “artist’s discretion,” Fitzjerald took his revenge with an image of steaming poo circled by flies. “I was passed out for most of the time,” says Brovent, who admits she was drunk, “and woke up to this horrible image on my back.”

Robin Williams as Bono?

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Robin Williams says he is often accosted by people who think he’s Bono. “I suppose when I put on the glasses I look a bit like him,” says Williams, who at 60 is nine years older than the U2 frontman. Most of the people who ask if he’s Bono, Williams says, are either “s---faced” or “have had a lot of medication.” He’s tried pretending to be Bono a few times, but says his Irish accent is lousy and “always ends up going into Scottish.”

Yoga's Satanic side

The former chief exorcist of the Vatican has denounced yoga as a tool of Satan. Father Gabriele Amorth, 86, who is the president-for-life of the International Association of Exorcists, says the increasingly popular Eastern discipline of stretching and breathing can lead devotees to Hinduism and thus to a “false belief in reincarnation” and an unholy worship of the body. “Practicing yoga is Satanic,” said Amorth. “It leads to evil just like reading Harry Potter.”