Sneezing fetish leads to arrest, and more

Sneezing fetish leads to arrest

A Texas man with a sneezing fetish has been arrested for blowing white pepper into a woman’s face. The unnamed elderly suspect was hauled in after he twice left a hardware-store cashier covered with pepper and sneezing. After talking to the suspect, said Commerce Police Chief Kerry Crew, “We found out he’s got a problem. He becomes aroused by females sneezing.”

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A British man wearing a gorilla costume for a sponsored run was stopped by police who thought he’d escaped from a zoo. Rory Coleman, 45, was running 143 miles to benefit the Gorilla Organization, a great-ape preservation charity. But after calls from alarmed motorists, police stopped Coleman, pulled him to the side of the road, and questioned him as to his species. “I told the police I’d come quietly,” said Coleman, “as long as they gave me a banana.”

Hom debuts underwear for left-handed men

Left-handed men can save “up to three, often vital seconds” in the bathroom, say the manufacturers of a new kind of underwear that goes on sale this week. Underwear maker Hom says the frontal flap of the new garment runs horizontally rather than vertically, so that it can be pulled apart just as easily with the left hand as with the right. For left-handed men, this could mean the end of frustrating fumbling in the bathroom, since Y-fronted underwear encourages access from the right. “It’s the major breakthrough that many have been waiting for,” said a spokesman for the department store Debenhams.