Bizarre: This family lives in a rented toilet

SINGAPORE: A Chinese family live in a toilet as they cannot afford to rent a house to live in.

The man of the house, err... the toilet, who is a cobbler and locksmith by profession, lives there with his wife and child and even carries out his business from there.

The family of three has modified the toilet and added wooden planks to cover the toilet bowls to make a bed and they use the cubicles to store their belongings, reveals Asia One.

When the smell gets too strong to bear, they flush the toilets.

No women to be allowed on XXXX Island

AUSTRALIA: It's a man's world and on this 4Xs island which lies on the Great Barrier Reef, it is certainly true.

Those who are interested in having a boy's time, can holiday on the island soon and indulge in activities such as fishing, touch footy, beach cricket, swimming in the ocean or simply barbecuing the catch of the day.

The Pumpkin Island, as it is known now, has been acquired by a firm called XXXX Gold and plans are on anvil to call it the XXXX Island and to make it a men-only island, reports Gapyear.com.

The six hectare Pumpkin Island will be redesigned to become the ultimate destination for boy's trips away. The island will be thwe perfect "get away" from women!

Bride has three husbands - and she never knew

US: A 37-year-old woman made a shocking discovery when her marriage licence application was rejected as she was 'already married'.

She got a rude awakening just three weeks before she was supposed to get married, reveals The Sun. She was apparently married to two men from Ecuador and Mexico.

The woman had lost her birth certificate in the 1990s and it may have been picked up and subsequently misused by people involved in marriage scams.

The woman got her earlier two marriages annulled only to be delivered another blow. She was also married to a third man.

However, the woman did manage to get married for real in time.
 

Daycare owner locked toddler in crawlspace for hours

US: A 54-year-old woman who ran a day-care centre in Connecticut locked a six-month-old toddler inside the crawlspace in the basement without food or water for four hours so the health inspector wouldn't notice that the centre was overcrowded.

When the baby girl started crying after being abandoned in the basement for hours, she was discovered by who else but the health inspector, reports Daily Mail.

The baby was not not attended to for over four hours and was abandoned behind a locked door in the basement.

The woman was charged with child abuse and risk of injury to a minor and released after posting $5,000 bond.
 

Thieves steal 5,000 honeybees from restaurant

HOUSTON: Thieves, who have yet to be identified, took off with 500-pound beehive in their pick-up truck from a retaurant in Houston.

The hive held about 5,000 bees and was worth about $1,000, reports a website.

The owner is not so worried about the honet, but he is desperate to get his bees back. After all, a single colony of bees can produce 200 pounds of honey a year. The owner also uses the bees to pollinate the restaurant's lemon trees.

According to CCTV footage, carrying off the hive from its crate in the pre-dawn hours took about two minutes as the thieves obviously knew what they were doing since they chose a rainy day when the bees would be less active than usual.

Apparently, bee theft is very common since they are short in supply. Beekeepers have started branding their bees and are careful where they keep the beehive safe from the bee-rustlers.

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