TAIPEI, Taiwan - Taiwan is running out of space for new cemeteries and fears it will not have enough room to accomodate its dense population. The Houston-based Celestis Inc. has come up with a solution for Taiwan's problem - sending people's remains into space. The firm signed a deal with one of Taiwan's largest funeral homes, Baushan Enterprise, to offer "space burials" to the Taiwanese. Robert Tysor, chief executive of Celestis, explained that the ashes are packed into an aluminum tube and shot into space on commercial rockets from bases in the U.S. and Russia. The tube orbits Earth once every 90 minutes before returning to the planet and burning up. Space burials cost about 400,000 New Taiwan dollars (US$12,000). Families also have the option of sending their loved one's ashes to the moon's surface for about NT$1 million (US$30,000).

DUNCAN, Okla. - A man had such a hard time parting with his glass eye that he had it refitted into a ring. Michael Burton had the artificial eye for 35 years because of an industrial accident and recently had to have it refitted. Since he didn't want to just dispose of it, he took it to jeweler Al Nix. "That eye cost me two-thousand dollars 35 years ago," Burton said. "It took three days for people to hand-paint that eye. To throw it away would be like buying a new car and just taking my old car to the dump. I guess
it's like they say -- one man's trash is another man's treasure." Nix put together a design team that designed a ring incorporating the odd shape of the artificial eye. It took the team about four weeks to set the eye and another four to complete the ring. Three ounces of gold set the eye as a stone. Burton was delighted with the result.

FREDRICKSBURG, Va. - A Virginia man has been charged with pulling off a neighbor's prosthetic leg and beating him with it during an argument. The fight started when the victim, Michael Clapp, 38, discovered a bottle of medicine missing from his Townsend Boulevard apartment Wednesday night, The Free Lance Star of Fredricksburg, Va., reported Friday. Clapp suspected his neighbor, 27-year-old Rodney Prophitt, and went next door to confront him, city police spokesman Jim Shelhorse said. Upon being confronted, Prophitt knocked Clapp to the ground, then pulled off Clapp's artificial leg and struck him with it several times. "At some point, Clapp was able to grab his leg back, get back to his apartment and call 911," Shelhorse said. Police charged Prophitt with felonious assault and petty larceny. Clapp was treated at Mary Washington Hospital for a broken nose and other facial injuries.

Urinating in an open grave cures incontinence.

Passing a child three times under the belly of a donkey cures whooping cough.

Touching a corpse's hand cures a sore throat.

Stick an elder twig in your ear and wear it night and day to cure deafness.

Carry a child through a flock of sheep to cure respiratory problems.

To cure fever, place the patient on a sandy shore when the tide is coming in. The waves will carry away the disease.

A cork under the pillow at night cures cramps.

Rubbing the grease off church bells into your body cures shingles.

Tying a hairy caterpillar in a bag around a child's neck cures whooping cough.

Throwing a dung beetle over your shoulder cures a stomach ache.

ALBANY, New York - A man was pulled over by police for driving while watching porn. You read that right. Andre Gainey was enjoying an adult video called "Chocolate Foam" while driving his Mercedes Benz when he was caught by an officer at a stop light. Detectives pulled him over when they saw the movie playing in the car's headrests. When they stopped him, they noticed another screen in the passenger-side visor that was facing Gainey, permitting him to watch the movie while driving. According to Joe Pichi, a spokesman for the state's Department of Motor Vehicles, this case is believed to be the first of its kind in New York.
"Our biggest problem is illegal cell phone use while driving," Pichi said. "Drivers should be driving."

March 1 is National Pig Day and Peanut Butter Lover's Day
March 2 is Old Stuff Day
March 4 is Holy Experiment Day
March 5 is Multiple Personalities Day
March 10 is Festival Of Life In The Cracks Day
March 15 is Buzzard's Day and Everything You Think Is Wrong Day
March 16 is Everything You Do Is Right Day
March 22 is National Goof-off Day
March 27 is National "Joe" Day
March 28 is Something On A Stick Day

A French bride was arrested at her wedding reception in 1995 for stabbing the groom with the knife they had just used to cut the wedding cake.

Right before he was due to conduct a wedding in West York-shire, Father Rodney Chapman tripped over a bible, crashed into the aisle and broke his foot. With blood streaming down his face, he managed to marry the couple before going to the hospital.

When the future George IV got married to Princess Caroline of Brunswick in 1795, he was so drunk he had to be carried to the altar by his two ushers. During the ceremony, he rose at one point as if trying to escape. Later, when asked by the Archbishop if there was any impediment to the marriage, the groom started to cry. After briefly visiting the marital bed that night, he fell asleep in the fireplace.

Newlywed Kal Thorpe left All Saints' Church, Erdington, irmingham, in August 1986 to discover that the wedding car had been stolen.

At a wedding at Kingston, Surrey, in 1973, the vicar fell ill and a replacement had to be found at short notice. Then the bride fainted when the groom put the ring on her finger and, despite attempts to revive her, remained unconscious for 20 minutes.

On the day of Princess Maria del Pozzo della Cisterno and Amadeo, the Duke of D'Aosta's wedding, Cisterno's mistress hanged herself, the palace gatekeeper cut his throat, the colonel leading the wedding procession collapsed from sunstroke, the stationmaster was crushed to death under the wheels of the honeymoon train, the King's aide died when he fell from his horse, and the best man shot himself. Otherwise, everything went smoothly...