A Japanese man showed he was one big softy when he married the love of his life - a giant cushion. Lee Jin-gyu has fallen head over heels for a Japanese 'dakimakura' - or hugging pillow - showing a life sized cartoon of his favourite sexy anime cartoon character Fate Testarossa. Now Jin, 28, has wed the pillow in a special ceremony in Tokyo after fitting it out with a wedding dress for the service in front of a local priest. "He is completely obsessed with this pillow and takes it everywhere," said one friend. "They go out to the park or the funfair where it will go on all the rides with him. "Then when he goes out to eat he takes it with him and it gets its own seat and its own meal," they added. Hugging pillows have become a huge hit in Japan as a way for teenage fans to get to grips with their favourite cartoon fantasy women.
Surgeons in China have operated to remove a five inch tail from a four-month-old baby girl. The little girl, called Hong Hong, was born with the tail but it had since doubled in size, reports the Anhui Market Daily. Her father, Hou, of Lixing town in eastern China's Anhui province, said he had been "shocked" to see the tail at birth. "I wanted to cut it off when she was born, but doctors suggested we wait some time, as a newborn is too weak to take such a surgery," he said. He checked the tail each day, hoping it would get smaller but instead it just "grew bigger and bigger", he added. Doctors at the Anhui Provincial Children's Hospital said they too had been surprised by the case. "It's very rare, about one in a million. We have never seen anything like this before," said Dr Sun Jun. X-rays had shown that the tail was connected to a fatty tumor within the spinal column. Dr Sun said the surgery had been successful, but it was still too early to say whether further treatment would be necessary.
A Mexican judge has been sacked for trying to punish a teenage graffiti artist by spray painting his buttocks. Fernando Perez Hurtado, from San Juan Del Rio, was dismissed for abusing his authority after he tried to impose the "humiliating" sentence on the 13 year-old. Police said the teenager, who has not been named, was caught 'tagging' on walls of public buildings and homes in the town, reports the Daily Telegraph. After he was arrested and charged, he faced court where the judge imposed the bizarre punishment instead of forcing his parents to pay a fine. Despite protests from parents and other court officials, the judge ordered the young artist to pull down his trousers before attempting to paint his buttocks with the same spray paint the teenager had used during his crimes. The judge, who is facing a three year ban from public office and a fine, was prevented from the touching the child after concerned officials stepped in, local media reported. The town's mayor Gustavo Nieto later confirmed he had fired the judge, whose job it was to impose penalties for petty crime, after he had "humiliated" the teenager. He said the judge had abused his authority, because he should have notified the boy's parents to force them pay a fine for the clean-up, not punish him directly. "The report I have is that the judge told him to drop his (trousers) and spray paint (his) buttocks," the mayor said. Mr Perez Hurtado was unavailable for comment. The family of the teenager were also not available to discuss the incident.
NEWARK -- Six women from the Essex County area who wanted fuller bottoms ended up in hospitals after receiving buttocks-enhancement injections containing the same material contractors use to caulk bathtubs, officials said. The women checked into hospitals in the county after their procedures, apparently administered by unlicensed providers, went horribly wrong, state health officials said. The women underwent surgery and were given antibiotics. No arrests have been made. Different from medical-grade silicone, the substance used in the botched procedures was believed to be a diluted version of nonmedical-grade silicone.
