This Week's Strangest Tale? How About The Thong-Clad Burglar?

Though General Motors has been skidding toward bankruptcy this week, you'd never know it by the luxurious Cadillac Escalade being advertised during the NBA playoffs.

It was a week of weird stories as the stock market bounded up and down more than Kobe Bryant and President Barack Obama selected Judge Sonia Sotomayor to suit up and get on the court. Here are 7 of the week's strangest tales:

1) In France, some 200 prisoners will compete in a Tour de France-type bicycle race. "It's a kind of escape for us," one convict says.

2) More than 100 years ago a UFO saved the Earth by slamming into the Tunguska meteor, one Russian scientist believes.

3) When Scrumdiddilyumptious Donuts in Washington State moves from its present location, what will become of one of its best customers — Henry the rooster?

4) For a few years, an artist in Sweden has been mailing bizarre objects to a Berlin post office. How bizarre? A plastic skeleton. A loaf of bread. A hamburger.

5) When a Brazilian gang tries to airdrop mobile devices to prisoners using miniature helicopters, it gives new meaning to the word: cellphone.

6) In Tennessee, sheriff's deputies arrest a burglar who was clad only in a woman's thong. Call it a panty raid.

7) As luck would have it, a city in New Zealand has banished the number "13." City leaders, though, are rethinking the policy.