And you though your job sucked?

A man in China has refused to sell his house as part of a massive development project, which is turning the area into a 40 million dollar apartment and shopping mall. After man demanded 1.3 million for his home, developers had an idea – They just dug around him!

JERUSALEM  – U.S. restaurant chain Hooters, known for waitresses in low-cut blouses and short skirts, will open its first branch in Islread this summer, in the Mediterranean seaside city of Tel Aviv.

“I strongly believe that the Hooters concept is something that Israelis are looking for,” Ofer Ahiraz, who bought the Hooters franchise for Israel, told Reuters Monday. “Hooters can suit the Israeli entertainment culture.”

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BERLIN – A German man who spent 10 days in a self-made box atop a 72-foot-tall pole to protest a looming jail term was lured off his perch by his wife — who sent up a topless picture of herself in his lunch box.

Fred Gregor, 45, was bidding to have his 15-month conviction for fraud overturned by squatting in his tiny cubicle atop a converted television mast. He told Reuters in a telephone interview last week that he wanted a new trial.

His wife Susanne, 25, backed his protest until the former stripper and mother of their five children decided she had had enough.

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