Vladi awful! Simpsons get Russian makeover

RUSSIAN animator Alexey Semenov has created a spoof version of The Simpsons that reflects the harsh realities of life in Russia.

The famous TV family live in a tiny flat on a rundown communist housing estate. The grey pictures are set to a dreary soundtrack.

‘Marge’ queues in a half-empty shop for a few meagre groceries, before going home to be beaten by ‘Homer’, right. ‘Lisa’ busks for a few roubles with her saxophone and ‘Bart’ is robbed of his wallet by muggers on the way to school. Ay, caramba!

A WOMAN called police in Oregon when she arrived home and found things missing. Officers found a burglar hiding, dressed in her hooded Christmas onesie adorned with hearts and snowflakes. He had dressed their cat in a green cashmere outfit belonging to their chihuahua. Victim Timothy Smith, 26, said: “We were livid.”

WE know the Japanese like all things small... but grilled sparrow, anyone? A shop in Kyoto City sells sparrow kushiyaki-style, left, meaning skewered and grilled. It is seasoned with a sweet soy sauce but because sparrows are, well tiny, the whole bird is skewered and you eat the lot. Not for the squeamish!

THOMAS and Jennifer Via liked to spice up their love lives with a spot of kung fu fighting in Huntington, West Virginia.

Then one day Jennifer, 49, accidently killed Tom with a 14-inch decorative dagger during foreplay.

“My husband and I liked to fight and have sex,” she said. Lawyer Kerry Nessel added: “They loved each other dearly. Things just got out of hand.”

Jennifer admitted voluntary manslaughter and has been jailed for 15 years.

ROCKERS put their wetsuits on to take part in the Lower Keys Underwater Music Festival this weekend at Looe Key, Florida, to promote coral reef protection.

Musicians play their instruments under the sea but with oxygen tanks on their backs, right.

They can’t sing but presumably they do a version of Smoke On The

Water by Deep Sea Purple.

QUICK-THINKING firefighters in Rome placed mattresses at the foot of the Colosseum when a tour guide climbed up to a high narrow ledge and threatened to jump after losing his job. The famous landmark, which attracts four million visitors a year, remained open as rescuers used a ladder to approach the man and persuade him to climb down.