Traffic chaos as German hearse ejects corpse

Traffic chaos as German hearse ejects corpse: "BERLIN (Reuters) - A hearse has overturned on a German motorway, shattering the coffin and ejecting the corpse onto the tarmac along with a bag of coffin nails that brought traffic to a standstill.
'The driver had fallen asleep at the wheel and yanked the steering wheel round when he woke up,' said Jens O'Brien, spokesman for the regional government in Duesseldorf, western Germany said on Wednesday."

Amateur stuntman lands in hospital

Amateur stuntman lands in hospital: "SYDNEY (Reuters) - Amateur Sydney stuntman goes up, in flames, comes down short, in bone-breaking fall.
Sydney police patrolling near the Coral Sea Park in the seaside suburb of Maroubra on Friday night spied a man on the roof of a toilet block douse himself with petrol, set himself alight, climb onto a BMX bike and launch himself off the block.
Missing a pile of mattresses designed to break his fall, the man's burning clothes were extinguished by police who threw a garbage bin full of water over him.
The 39-year-old Sydney man suffered several fractures including a broken nose and broken wrist, as well as burns, and the loss of his BMX bike which police seized along with a jerry can of petrol and lighter.
The amateur stuntman was being readied for surgery on Monday. "