Crammed with crazy yet verified stories from the world's press and a wealth of illustrations by cartoonist Mike Gordon, this is a book for adults and children alike. The stories include wacky extracts from police reports, extraordinary happenings, weird behaviour, crazy adverts, bizarre deaths, awful accidents, strange "50 years ago" items, misprints and bloopers, curious quotations and a multitude of other examples of the unexpected nature, the extremes and the humour of human behaviour.