“A Kitchener father is angry at police after he was arrested at his child’s school and later strip-searched at the police station, all because his 4-year-old daughter drew a picture of a gun in class. “I’m picking up my kids and then, next thing you know, I’m locked up,” Jessie Sansone, 26, said of his ordeal on Wednesday. “I was in shock. This is completely insane.” The school principal, police and child welfare officials, however, all stand by their actions. They say they had to investigate to determine whether there was a gun in Sansone’s house that children had access to. “From a public safety point of view, any child drawing a picture of guns and saying there’s guns in a home would warrant some further conversation with the parents and child,” said Alison Scott, executive director of Family and Children’s Services. Waterloo Regional Police Insp. Kevin Thaler said there was a complaint from Forest Hills Public School that “a firearm was in a residence and children had access to it. We had every concern, based on this information, that children were in danger.” w/ photo

“A 70-year-old man had his testicles and part of his penis ripped-off by a crocodile while crossing a flooded river. Jonah Maturure, from Marutaya in Gutu, is just happy to be alive after his terrifying battle with the reptile. Now recovering at the United Bulawayo Hospitals (UBH), Maturure claims he has a box of Tomatoes to thank for his escape after he dropped it into the water, briefly distracting the croc but long enough for him to swim to safety.” w/ photos

“What Claire suffers from is actually known as Selective Eating Disorder. Experts say she’s on the road to killing herself with her diet. But she disagrees. According to Claire, she keeps herself healthy by drinking plenty of water and getting lots of exercise. This doesn’t convince her GP however, who says that if she keeps this up, the lack of vitamins and minerals will lead to huge problems in the future, such as a stroke or heart attack. Claire can’t help it though, given that she’s terrified of eating fruits and vegetables. ‘I get so angry when people think I’m being faddy – this is a real medical condition,’ she says. She does seem to have made it through 31 years on just pizza, and is still going strong. I wonder how she isn’t sick of the stuff, though.” w/ photo

“You might not know it to look at him but Fabio is a record breaker – the 1 ton beast has set the standard for Limousin bulls worldwide after selling at auction for $169,017. The 17-month-old was expected to fetch $53,000 before being spotted by Alan Jenkinson – one of the wealthiest breeders in the country. The sale, in Carlisle, set a new world record for a Limousin and a new British record for a bull by $28,000. Fabio, who gets through 40lb of cereal a day, was raised in Machynlleth, Powys, by Welsh farmer Glyn Vaughan.” w/ photos

“If you obsessively check for your phone or lose your cool when you don’t have reception, you may have nomophobia, or fear of being without a cell phone, according to the Los Angeles Times. The relatively new phobia is on the rise, according to a new report sponsored by SecurEnvoy, a company specializing in digital passwords… Side effects of nomophobia — short for no-mobile-phobia — include panic attack, shaking, sweating, and nausea when a cell phone is out of reach or battery.” w/ photo

“A pregnant woman has told how she has developed a ‘bizarre craving’ for eating her local newspaper. Ann Curran, 35, of Dundee, munches her way through copies of the Dundee Evening Telegraph. She says it is the only ‘only newsprint with the proper flavor’ and that she “stashes shredded copies in her handbag for emergency snacks’. Ms Curran said: “I could be sitting in the bingo hall and I’ll start ripping out pages of the newspaper. “All the people look at me going, ‘What is she doing?’. I tear the white bits off the edges of the pages and keep them in a bag so I can eat them while I’m shopping.” w/ photo

“He has never worked outside the home or seen a doctor, and until Wednesday, he had never left his remote mountain village in western Nepal. So 72-year-old Chandra Bahadur Dangi only recently learned he might be the world’s shortest man. Dangi says he’s only 22 inches tall – about the size of a toddler – and he’s hoping to claim the title. Guinness World Records said in an email Wednesday that its officials would arrive in Nepal’s capital Sunday to measure Dangi. Dangi took his first trip outside his village and his first trip on a plane to reach Katmandu on Wednesday. ‘I am very happy to be in Katmandu for the first time in my life. I am here so I can take the Guinness title,’ Dangi told reporters at the airport.” w/ photos

“A man driving a Porsche in San Francisco was frozen in an embarrassing situation when he got stuck in a patch of fresh cement. The unidentified driver was attempting to sidestep some stopped traffic when he landed himself in the thick of ongoing construction on Thursday morning. Construction workers quickly snapped into action as they tried to shovel the wet cement away from the car before it set. The driver stayed inside the car the entire time, saying that he wanted to avoid the cement flowing into the interior. Another reason to stay inside was to avoid the ensuing embarrassment that he rightly deserved.” w/ photos

“Australian chef Andy Wrobel battered his way into the world record books on Shrove Tuesday, after claiming the title for the world’s tallest stack of pancakes. Culinary expert Andy beat a 2008 record set in Croatia after building a 29-inches-tall stack of 60 delicious treats at the Pancake Parlour in Melbourne. The leaning tower of pancakes eventually toppled over, but only after the record was confirmed by Guinness officials. The chef flips over 100,000 pancakes every year at the popular restaurant where he has been working for over 25 years. Andy admitted a lot of hard work has gone into beating last year’s effort, revealing to local broadcaster ABC: ‘We tried last year and we got to 24-inches and did pretty well. ‘We thought we’d give it another go and this year we actually did it.” w/ photo

“They are usually native to north America but this whiffy albino skunk was found wandering near Bridgnorth. And he had a nasty surprise in store for his rescuers – a squirt of foul-smelling spray. But since he was found in a Pattingham road the adult skunk has behaved far more sweetly and the hunt is now on to find its rightful owners. He is currently residing at Taylor and Marshall vets in Shifnal High Street. The skunk was taken there by members of the public. Julianne Berry, from the practice which handles exotic animals, said: ‘He’s definitely a pet, he’s very, very friendly and easy to handle.” w/ photo