Odd News around The World

GPS—Don’t Leave Home Without it.
MARSEILLE, France (Reuters) - A hapless thief drilled his way into a French bank at the weekend, but missed the safe and instead found himself in a lavatory where he was promptly arrested, a French newspaper reported on Sunday.
The 21-year-old broke into a building adjoining a branch of Banque Populaire in the Mediterranean port city of Marseille in the early hours of Saturday morning, La Provence newspaper said.
The paper said the man, who came from Belgium and was not named, thought that he was going to end up in a room housing safe deposit boxes but instead drilled into the lavatories.
Alarms were triggered when he broke through the wall and police caught the man when they arrived on the scene.
(Reporting by Jean-Francois Rosnoblet, Writing by Crispian Balmer; Editing by Jon Boyle)
Now — THAT’S a SNAKE.
Stunned scientists have found the fossilised remains of the world's greatest snake - a record-busting serpent that was as long as a bus and snacked on crocodiles.
The boa-like behemoth ruled the tropical rainforests of what is now Colombia some 60 million years ago, at a time when the world was far hotter than now, they report in a study released on Wednesday.
The size of the snake's vertebrae suggest the beast weighed some 1.135 tonnes, in a range of 730kg to 2.03 tonnes.
And it measured 13 metres from nose to tail, in a range of 10.64-15 metres, they estimate.
"Truly enormous snakes really spark people's imagination, but reality has exceeded the fantasies of Hollywood," said Jonathan Block, a vertebrate palaeontologist at the University of Florida, who co-led the work.
"The snake that tried to eat Jennifer Lopez in the movie Anaconda is not as big as the one we found.
"At its greatest width, the snake would have come up to about your hips," said David Polly, a geologist at the University of Indiana at Bloomington.
The investigators found the remains of the new species at an unlikely location - one of the world's biggest open-cast coal mines, in Cerrejon, Colombia, where giant machines The investigators found the remains of the new species at an unlikely location - one of the world's biggest open-cast coal mines, in Cerrejon, Colombia, where giant machines had exposed the remains. (Yahoo News 6-2-09)
Its Raining.
And we’re lucky it is only water. In 1578 Norway had a deluge of yellow mice that fell into the sea and swam ashore; Singapore, after an earthquake in 1861 was blessed by hundreds of fish which fell onto the streets. Worse, in Tenessee, thousands of snakes dropped out of the sky during a rainstorm in 1877.
More recently in the streets of Birmingham, Britain, frogs hailed heads in 1954 and in 1969 hundreds of dead ducks dropped into the streets of Maryland.
The explanation for this phenomena is unclear but it is suspected that high winds are responsible for the oddly distributed livestock.