Naked spin

A naked New Zealand man got stuck in his tumble dryer.

Dave Chapman had been enjoying a drinking session with friends and started looking for a pair of underpants in the dryer after deciding to change clothes.

However, Dave - who was naked from the waist down - managed to get himself wedged in the 30cm-wide opening of dryer up to his armpits.

It then fell on top of him and Dave had to be rescued by his friends, ambulance staff, a police officer and the Washdyke and Temuka fire brigades.

Speaking of the incident, he said: "I'd had a fair bit to drink; I don't know what flaming possessed me to get in it."

Underage strip

A United States teenager is being sued after a strip club hired her as an exotic dancer.

A lawyer for the Cheetah Club in Corpus Christi, Texas, claim the 14-year-old had conned them into employing her and didn't know she was underage when she exposed her breasts - a violation of state law.

Alan Jaffe said: "She came into the club with six-inch stiletto heels and a miniskirt and looked just like a model from a Miss America contest. We're the victims here."

However, some reports have claimed the schoolgirl was kidnapped, sexually assaulted, and then given a fake ID in order to work at the strip club.

She has since returned to her family home.

Home-caught fish

A Chinese man dug a 50ft hole in his kitchen for fishing.

Farmer Li Huiyan hired 30 villagers to dig the giant ditch in his home to reach an underground river.

He said: "The river used to have so many fish, and by simply putting a net there, hundreds of fish would be caught."

Li has installed a fishing net across the water and climbs down 16 metre-long ladder to check on his daily catch.

He has so far earned over £2,000 by selling the fish.

Travelling holiday

Thieves in Sweden stole a caravan and its sleeping owner.

Holidaymaker Bjorn Feldbaek woke up to discover his mobile home had been attached to a getaway car in Skovde and was being towed away from the campsite.

After continuing their escape for several miles the thieves eventually parked up and entered the caravan.

However, Bjorn sent them fleeing from the scene, even abandoning their own car, when they discovered he was inside.

He said: "I had no idea what was going on and was scared stiff.

"Then it stopped and I heard someone opening the door and when I saw the thieves I just started screaming and screaming. They looked as scared as I did and just ran off. I guess it wasn't quite what they were expecting."

Hand saved after chop

Russian doctors reattached a man's hand 10 hours after he chopped it off.

Microsurgeons spent over eight hours operating on Sergey Burnaikin after his right hand was axed off to free him from a freak accident.

The 45-year-old was helping a colleague free an immobile tractor from a field by towing it away.

However, when his friend accidentally accelerated, Sergey's hand was crushed by the metal towing cable.

Sergey claims he predicted the accident would happen the night before.

He said: "I had a prophetic dream before the incident - my hand got stuck in some mechanism. And in my dream I managed to free my hand from the steel trap. When it happened in real life my heart told me to cut the hand off. The doctors would definitely reattach it. That is why I did it."

Barbaric belt

A United States woman killed her puppy to make a belt.

Krystal Lynn Lewis from Oklahoma was charged with skinning her pet Jack Russell to turn it into a fashion accessory.

Lewis reportedly wanted the dog, named Poplin, killed because it was a gift from her ex-girlfriend.

Muskogee County sheriff's deputy George Roberson said the 23-year-old allegedly got her friend Austin Michael Mullins, 26, to shoot the pet 10 times with a pistol before she nailed the skin to a board in her flat to dry out.

The pair have been charged with one felony count of cruelty to animals and bail has been set at US$25,000.