Unlucky!

A man in Memphis, Tennessee, has lost three homes in a row to water and flames.

His first apartment was burned thanks to a gas leak. At his new apartment, organised by the landlord, a major electrical fault caused a fire which turned the entire building to ashes.

After bursting into tears, Davin Roberson was somehow able to appreciate that he was unharmed, and get on with life, while the Red Cross put him up in a hotel.

But within weeks the building lost its roof in a storm, so he found himself homeless yet again. He is now living with relatives and refusing to let it all get him down.

Time to buy a lottery ticket, Davin, your luck has to change sometime!

Worst Food Product Ever?

From ThisIsWhyYou'reFat (which despite the name, isn't a hate site, but a site filled to overflowing with weird and wonderful food combinations laden with enough kilojoules to give an elephant a heart attack).

Consumerist.com has helpfully pointed out that it also contains 1,170% of your daily allowance of cholesterol. Yum!

Cave Time!

The latest in a long list of financial tragedies...

A couple from Missouri, USA has announced they can no longer afford their sprawling cave mansion and is putting the unique home up for auction on eBay. Come again?

This building is enormous and has to be seen to be believed. It has even hosted rock concerts in the past, including one featuring Ike and Tina Turner. The place is stunning - pity it's neither in my area nor budget!

Read More here or watch the video below.

Club Evicts Underaged Guest

An uninvited guest snuck into Wests Leagues Club, south-west of Sydney, just before midnight recently, and managed to evade staff for more than 24 hours.

Security footage shows a possum sneaking into the reception area and inspecting the fountain, before leading staff on a chase all over the club. It then hid in a wall cavity before emerging a day later.

The Club's General Manager, Tony Mathew, said, "We aren’t sure if it lived within the 15km radius and were concerned it may have been underage. We have a legal obligation to call the police if we are unable to get a patron to move on."



The most amusing part, to me, was when the guy was supposedly trying to usher it out the doors but he is so busy filming it with his mobile phone that the possum just does its own thing!

Tantrums Get Results!

But in the case of a Romanian TV presenter, not always the results you're after.

When nobody called in with answers on her phone-in quiz show, she began to shout at the cameras, and when still nobody called, she smashed a phone on the ground, jumping on it and screaming maniacally.

It got her the attention she deserved - in the form of being fired. In addition, the country's TV watchdog fined the company for broadcasting violence, and the program is now restricted to the after-10pm adults timeslot.

See the video

Huge Insect Bite

A British teenager appeared to have an insect bite on her neck but doctors found the real problem -- a 2-inch sewing needle lodged in her throat.

"I couldn't believe my eyes when they showed me the x-ray," the teenager said. She had collapsed during a sewing class five days earlier, but had not felt the needle enter as she had hurt her back at the time.

Read more at redOrbit

Delicious.

Voters in Venezuela were arrested during their recent referendum - but not for failing to vote.

The referendum was to examine whether presidents should be allowed to continue serving for as long as they keep winning elections. The current president will not be allowed to remain in office beyond 2012 if the referendum is overturned.

Voters, unhappy with the current president, decided to protest - by eating their ballot papers. And according to General Jesus Gonzalez, in charge of voting security, "This is an electoral crime."

Hooley Dooley. Imagine what the crime might be if you made a paper aeroplane out of them?!