WTF news Wednesday: insure those buttocks!

In today's WTF news Wednesday, I bring you these gems plucked straight from News of the Weird, November 2008:

Insure those buttocks!
The bedding company SilentNight in Lancashire, England, recently insured mattress-tester Graham Butterfield's buttocks for the equivalent of about $2 million, finding that particular part of his body to be so sensitive to tiny variations in fillings that he knows, quickly and certainly, if the proper materials have been used.
I TOTALLY could do this. Dan once jokingly slid a pea under the mattress when I wasn't looking and darned if I didn't wake up complaining that something was different! I swear I am not kidding, ask him. He was astounded. Note to SilentNight: I'll be your North American tester, call me.

Strangers jumping over babies:
The city of Castrillo de Murcia, Spain, lacks a "running of the bulls" tradition, but since 1620, it has included in its annual El Colacho festival a "leaping over the babies." In late May, the town's infants are laid on mattresses in the village square, and people in red-and-yellow devil costumes jump over them and keep running, to symbolize the vanquishing of demons from their lives.
Mmm, I would not be so thrilled to have people leaping over my infant, I must say.

Baby bat in bra:
Abbie Hawkins, 19, a hotel receptionist in Norwich, England, said she found a baby bat nestled inside the padded bra she had been wearing for several hours. "When I was driving to work, I felt a slight vibration but I thought it was just my mobile phone in my jacket pocket," she told the Daily Telegraph. Hawkins had fetched the bra off of a clothesline that morning, where it had been hanging overnight. First reaction: "I thought how mean I was for disturbing it."
My first reaction: (simultaneously) "aw!" and "omg!"

6 hour futile break-in attempt:
An unidentified man smashed a 6-foot hole in the wall of the Name Brand Clothing Store in Tulsa, OK, and labored through the night to bust open the safe, but according to the surveillance video, he finally gave up six hours later after making only a small hole in the safe. However, when the store manager arrived later that morning, he found the safe unlocked, probably the result of his forgetfulness the night before, and no contents were missing. Though the crime was unsuccessful, the manager offered to hire the robber, based just on his diligent work ethic.
ha! A good story with an even better ending.

Man steals street light:
The economic slowdown and rising prices for scrap metals have provoked desperation and creativity among down-market criminals. A 42-year-old man was arrested in his car heading for a metals-recycling center in Miami with a 40-foot-long municipal street lamp strapped to the roof.
Did he think no one would notice??

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