# The Mammoth Book of Weird News

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- Authors: [Geoff Tibballs](https://www.bookquiver.com/geoff-tibballs)
- Publisher: robinson
- ISBN: 978-18-4529-934-7
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2011-11-03
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

A humorous collection of hundreds of funny news stories, whacky phenomena, and hilarious blunders and gaffes from around the world, such as: the woman who smuggled 75 live snakes in her bra; the man who held a funeral for his amputated foot; the radioactive cat which got mistaken for a bomb; the human tongue that got served up in a hospital; the X-ray that revealed E. T.'s face in a duck; the youth who woke to find a bullet in his tongue; the tortoise that set a house on fire; and many more.