In trying to find a weird news story for the next episode of Strictly Right Radio, I realized that there were way too many this past week that I had to share. So, enjoy:
Airlines grounds overweight staff: paper (Reuters)
Turkish Airlines has grounded 28 flight attendants for being overweight and given them six months to slim down or face reassignment, a newspaper said on Saturday.
Ancient sex guide pubished as audio book (Reuters)
Too shy to read the Kama Sutra on the train during rush hour? Just take out your headphones.
The ancient sex guide dating back 1,600 years has been published as an audio book for the first time in its long history in what its British-based publisher described as a “perfect meeting of ancient history and modernity.”
“Now there’s no need to feel embarrassed by reading a copy of this wonderful and important book in public — simply download it on to your mp3 player and liven up your commute to work,” said Simon Petherick, managing director of Beautiful Books.
Paris Hilton sued for bad hair days (US Magazine)
Paris Hilton was sued Wednesday by a hair extension company that claims she breached their contract with them by wearing a competitor’s fake hair.
Hairtech International Inc. is seeking $35 million in damages, which is 10 times what she was paid under her contract, according to the AP. The fraud and breach-of-contract suit also cites Hilton’s partying for going against its marketing campaign.
Hairtech is also annoyed Hilton, 29, missed the line’s 2007 launch party because she was serving 23 days in jail for driving twice on a suspended license while on probation for reckless driving. The company says it lost $6.6 million on Hilton’s absence from the fete.
French police drop minimum height (Guardian)
A new decree has abolished the 1.6m (5ft 3in) minimum height for recruits to the French police force, the Police Nationale, declaring the selection of candidates on such criteria as “no longer justified”.
Customs officers and prison guards have also been told they no longer have to measure up to a minimum height.
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Customs officers will no longer have to prove they have “full use of their upper and lower limbs“, or boast an “elocution and pronunciation allowing their words to be normally understood“.