Deer poacher sentenced to monthly viewing of Bambi
And other stories from the stranger side of life

A Missouri man has been sentenced by a judge to watch the film ‘Bambi’ once a month, while serving a year-long incarceration for his role in large-scale deer poaching case. Three other men have been caught up in the investigation, and been ordered to pay more than £40,000 in fines.
Brazilian cannibals sentenced over human flesh pastries
A Brazilian man, his wife and his mistress have all been sentenced to decades in prison, after they were found guilty of killing three women and using their flesh to make pastries that they ate themselves, or handed out around their neighbourhood. The trio were sentenced to between 68 and 71 years for the crime.
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Man admitted to hospital after smelling his own socks
A Chinese man has reportedly been hospitalised after smelling his own socks. Doctors say the man from Zhangzhou in South-China’s Fujian province had developed a severe fungal lung infection, after repeatedly smelling his socks for several minutes at the end of the work day.
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