A few gems are proffered from the ever-bizarre Austrian Times here in a digest rather than as full posts.

Ever looked at your sister in a strange way? No? Ah, so it’s just me in trouble then* unless, of course, I was living in Romania.

Incest Laws Scrapped

Legal authorities in Romania are to decriminalise incest between consenting adults. The Government’s new criminal code says offenders should be given psychiatric and medical counselling instead. Political legal adviser Dr Valerian Cioclei explained: “Not everything that is immoral has to be illegal. We cannot help these people by turning them into criminals and then punishing them.”

Mickey Mouse Police Radios

Mickey Mouse walkie-talkies given away free with a kids magazine in Germany have been recalled – after youngsters started to pick up police radio broadcasts on them. The handsets – produced in China and given away in 300,000 magazines – were tuned to the same frequency as the emergency police network in Hamburg and Hanover in northern Germany.

Pope Shoots, Jesus Saves

The Pope is fielding a team of Vatican priests to take on police officers and traffic wardens for a charity football match in Quarto, southern Italy on Saturday. The Vatican team – raising cash for refugees in the Congo – has the slogan: “We play like God”.

And of course the unmissably moronic:

Boyfriend’s Suicide Bid With Birth Control Pills

A dimwit depressive was rushed to hospital after he tried to commit suicide with his girlfriend’s birth control pills. Marku Plesu, 28, gobbled down dozens of the pills after a row at the couple’s apartment in Faget, Romania.

Serious posting will be resumed tomorrow, but a certain what-on-earthness is allowed on here every now and then.

*TheEye doesn’t have a sister before anyone starts thinking of calling the rozzers. Strange, though, that given the option for this post of a walkie-talkie picture, a football one, a pic of some pills and one of a couple getting it on – the cards fell as they did. Odd that, eh? Snigger.