On a darker note….. Our friends across the pond are preparing their partners for sinking revenues as they take stock of their financial progress at the half-year stage.

With US firms having their best year ever in 2007, the top 50 firms generating a collective revenue of $46.8bn (£23.4bn).

However now, With the sky falling in on over zealous mortgage folk, and the ever present end of the economic world predictions, 2008 seems a lot tougher. 

 

A donkey is locked in a southern Mexico jail for committing assault and battery.

The jail normally holds people for public drunkenness and other disturbances. The donkey was in for biting and kicking two men near a ranch in Chiapas state.

Officer Sinar Gomez said the donkey would remain behind bars until its owner agreed to pay the men’s medical bills.

A former Bethlehem woman will serve up to 23 months in prison for having her 7-year-old son dress as a Cub Scout to collect money for a nonexistent cause.

Sally Ann Gombocz, 51, pleaded guilty to theft by deception and corruption of a minor.

Gombocz had her son dress as a scout in 2003 and tell people he was raising money for a camping trip.

Frank Lasser, 82, was tazered in his hospital bed because he was not willing to relinquish a small pocket knife he was holding. He had just come out of heart bypass surgery recently and if he is unable to breathe properly he becomes delusional. There were three Mounties present when they had to resort to the tazer gun.

25. It is illegal for a cab in the City of London to carry rabid dogs or corpses.

24. It is illegal to die in the Houses of Parliament.

23. It is an act of treason to place a postage stamp bearing the British monarch upside down.

22. In France, it is forbidden to call a pig Napoleon.

21. Under the UK’s Tax Avoidance Schemes Regulations 2006, it is illegal not to tell the taxman anything you don’t …