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I’ll just stay quite still and no one will notice me

A kangaroo is for the high jump after escaping from its owner and going on a knicker-nicking spree.

Benji bounced from garden to garden collecting ladies’ lingerie as it went. The two-year-old marsupial was only caught when one victim looked out of her kitchen window and saw it hopping it with her undies.

A spokesman for the police in Prague, Czech Republic, explained: “We had a call from the kangaroo’s owner saying it had escaped. At the same time, we started getting reports of a number of thefts from washing lines.”

He added: “We didn’t think they could possibly be related until the animal was caught red-handed.”

Benji’s owner Petr Hlabovic, 35, said: “I’m very relieved to have him back. I’ve got no idea what he thought he was up to – he certainly didn’t pick up the habit from me.”

That’s what they all say.

Thanks, Ursarodinia

Today’s standard-bearer for Italian culture
Daylife/Reuters Pictures used by permission

Silvio Berlusconi faces a growing backlash from Italians women, with a group planning to throw pairs of knickers at his mansion in protest at his attitude towards women and his involvement in an alleged prostitution ring.

A series of demonstrations are due to be held this month, including the one on Sunday in which a group of women plan to hurl pairs of knickers over the fence of his mansion outside Milan as a protest against his apparent obsession with scantily-clad showgirls.

Demonstrators around Italy will call for the prime minister’s resignation over accusations by magistrates that he paid women for sex at “bunga bunga” parties at which they performed strip teases and pole dances…

The protest is being organised by a civil society group, Liberty and Justice, which claimed to have collected 100,000 signatures demanding that Mr Berlusconi resign immediately.

“In no other democratic country would a prime minister, faced with such serious legal accusations, remain in office longer than a few hours,” the group said in a statement…

The most damaging charges against Mr Berlusconi are that he paid for sex with an under age prostitute and later put pressure on police in Milan to have her released from custody over an allegation of theft.

Prosecutors in Milan, who are in charge of the investigation, are expected to request by Friday that he be sent to trial.

It’s not like it would be any loss to Italian culture, politics, prestige or power – to lose this sleazy thug.

An Australian woman has taken revenge on her cheating husband by putting a photograph of his lover’s underpants up for sale on the auction site eBay.

In the listing the woman says she is selling a picture of a pair of lacy black knickers and an empty condom wrapper “size small” found in her bed after her husband had an affair with another woman.

The seller — identified on eBay only as annastella007 — provides a rather unflattering description of the knickers.

“They are so huge I thought they may make someone a nice shawl or, even better, something for Halloween perhaps.”

Tee hee…