US police: don’t call 911 if you run out of toilet paper

And other stories from the stranger side of life

wd-toilet.jpg

Police in Oregon are asking people to stop calling 911 if they’ve run out of toilet paper. “It’s hard to believe that we even have to post this. Do not call 911 just because you ran out of toilet paper. You will survive without our assistance,” said the department on its Facebook page.

Milk thief turns out to be sly fox

When a man in Essex checked security camera footage after noticing his milk delivery had been stolen from his doorstep discovered the culprit was a fox. Antony Neale, 55, said he has now taken to grabbing his daily delivery before the sly thief can pinch it.

Subscribe to The Week

Escape your echo chamber. Get the facts behind the news, plus analysis from multiple perspectives.

SUBSCRIBE & SAVE
https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/flexiimages/jacafc5zvs1692883516.jpg

Sign up for The Week's Free Newsletters

From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox.

From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox.

Sign up

Exorcist says victim hovered for six hours

A Catholic exorcist says he witnessed a victim possessed by a demon float up to the ceiling and stay there for six hours. Ron Feyl-Enright said: “In all the years I’ve done this, I could say I've just done about 2,000 involving rituals. In those 2,000, I’d say maybe I’ve witnessed about at least a dozen times people that would actually levitate.”

––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––For more outlandish tales and news to make you smile, sign up for our Tall Tales email––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

To continue reading this article...
Continue reading this article and get limited website access each month.
Get unlimited website access, exclusive newsletters plus much more.
Cancel or pause at any time.
Already a subscriber to The Week?
Not sure which email you used for your subscription? Contact us

 
Chas Newkey-Burden has been part of The Week Digital team for more than a decade and a journalist for 25 years, starting out on the irreverent football weekly 90 Minutes, before moving to lifestyle magazines Loaded and Attitude. He was a columnist for The Big Issue and landed a world exclusive with David Beckham that became the weekly magazine’s bestselling issue. He now writes regularly for The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Independent, Metro, FourFourTwo and the i new site. He is also the author of a number of non-fiction books.