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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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.