Police called to help cardboard cutout

Police officers in the US were surprised when they realised they had been called to check on the wellbeing of a cardboard cutout. Officers in snowy Minnesota were told an adult male had been seen standing “motionless outside” while “wearing no coat in the cold and hugging a pillow”. It turned out to be a cutout of local millionaire Mike Lindell, the CEO of the MyPillow brand. The cutout’s flesh equivalent (pictured above with Donald Trump) was safe and well indoors at the time of the call.

Woman nearly killed by her own bra

A woman hospitalised with a shotgun wound was nearly killed by her own bra. As medics treated the 39-year-old, who had been shot at close range, they found that the underwire from her bra had been pushed into her by the force of the blast and scythed into her liver, diaphragm and heart.

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People throw cheese at babies for fun

The latest social media craze is seeing people throwing cheese at babies’ faces. The ‘Cheese Challenge’ took off after an initial video of someone throwing cheese at a baby went viral. Before long, people on Twitter were filming themselves flinging cheese at children's faces. One mum threw an entire cheese burger at her young son. Not everyone was impressed. “It's so wrong in so many ways!” said one.