Bodybuilders & Bananas Highlight 'Seven Strangest Stories Of The Week'
Amid all the talk this week of gas guzzlers, Guantanamo and guns in national parks (Yosemite Sam, call on line 1), lots of stories flew under the conventional radar. But they didn't get past us. Here then are seven of the strangest:
1) There is no waffling at the Belgian Bodybuilding Championship. When the anti-doping doctors walk in, the muscle-bound Belgians make a bee line for the door.
2) In a one-two punch, an Australian boxer is knocked out cold in the first round of a match and then declared the bout's winner.
3) What makes amazing athletes so amazing? Maybe it's the Bible reading, teeth brushing and tossing out that third can of Diet Pepsi.
Palin at the Republican Governors Association meeting in Miami last November. Joe Raedle/Getty Images hide caption
4) As if Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin didn't have enough on her mind, apparently at one point she was asked by a Washington attorney to help retire the campaign debt of Democratic presidential hopeful, Hillary Rodham Clinton.
5) When a 4,000 pound bull goes up against a 15-foot-deep well, winch ... err, which ... wins?
6) Banana news, part I: A teenager in North Carolina slips up while trying to rob an Internet cafe with a banana. Surely he will appeal.
7) Banana news, part II: A man wearing an ape costume tries to steal foam banana displays from gas stations in Wisconsin.
See any strange stories we should consider? Feel free to e-mail The Two-Way.