Man sets mice on musophobic ex-missus A Swedish man was arrested yesterday on "suspicion of unlawful threats and animal welfare offences", after shoving 19 mice through the letterbox of his musophobic ex-missus's Stockholm flat. The unnamed 59-year-old decided to "wreak cruel revenge" on his 37-year-old former other half, who woke up yesterday to find the flat …
Yep, I know too well. I have recently developed a completely pathological, unexplicable fear of heights. Happened recently - maybe over the last 3-4 years, which is weird. For example, when working at Goonhilly satellite station 30 years ago, I could happily hang with one hand from the ladder of dish #2 - 30 metres above the ground, while my friends cringed in horror.
Nowadays, I walk a different - longer - route into the city of Oulu from home, so as to avoid walking over the high(ish) bridges that adorn the city. Once when I tried to walk that route, I was almost reduced to crawling.
When I saw the Hitchcock film, "Vertigo", I vomited, then passed out at the beginning.
I can often wake up screaming my head off, because I had a vision of some woman hanging off a cliff without a rope. Thanks, Daily Telegraph. That advertisement did me no favours. Bit like McDonalds using a cow's dead fetus to promote its "100% Beef" wares.
I kind of understand she needed hospital treatment for her mental difficulties. But what have cops to do with rodents? Don't they have better things to do than gathering several small furry animals...
Reminds me of another today's story from the continent: a women discovered a tree frog in her salad - and called the cops. Why?!
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