IT MUST BE TRUE…

I read it in the tabloids

A bride-to-be in Uttar Pradesh in India refused to marry her prospective husband when she noticed that he was wearing a wig. During the ceremony she became suspicious that the groom, Ajay Kumar, was repeatedly adjusting his traditional headgear – at which point a guest informed her that he was actually bald and wearing a wig. “The bride fainted and fell on the stage,” The Times of India reported. “Later, when she gained consciousness, she refused to marry the groom.” A fight broke out between the two families and both lodged police complaints.

A North Carolina woman is battling officials to be allowed to keep her personalised numberplate which reads: “FART”. Karly Sindy had her plate approved by the US Department of Motor Vehicles in October. But the DMV later asked her to defend her choice, following a series of complaints. Now, she has come up with the novel explanation that her plate stands for “Friends of Asheville Recreational Trails” – an imagined group celebrating her hometown’s hiking routes, which she has now set up for real.

The sighting of a mysterious “six-foot man-goat” in rural Northamptonshire is causing alarm.The incident happened on the A425 near the village of Staverton at around 2am. “Something crossed the road in front of us in full headlights for about three seconds,” read the report on Mumsnet.The creature was “maybe six feet or over, but had short powerful legs and hips which seemed to move in a circular fluid fashion. It was not a deer because it stood on two legs... Any ideas?”