Russian police fight fire with snowballs

Two Russian police officers have been commended for helping to extinguish a fire using nothing more than snowballs. First Lieutenant Yevgeny Lunin and Lieutenant Pavel Istomin contained the fire to a burning garage, saving a neighbouring home until fire crews arrived to take over.

Man arrested for throwing semen on woman

A Taiwanese man has been charged with a number of offences, after he admitted to throwing a container of his own semen onto an unsuspecting Japanese woman. Local media reported that the 38-year-old unemployed man admitted he had been watching similar pornography online prior to deciding to carry out his own attack.

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Moroccan woman serves boyfriend’s body to workers

A Moroccan woman has been accused of killing, butchering and serving her boyfriend’s body to Pakistani workers, after he told her he wanted to marry someone else. The killing was reportedly discovered by the dead man’s brother, who claims he found a tooth in the woman’s blender while searching for his missing sibling.