Weird and wacky reigned supreme in 2003

FROM the Polish undertaker caught smuggling cigarettes in a hearse to a pair of one-legged Brazilian prisoners skipping jail, the weird and wacky reigned supreme around the world in 2003.

Oddball tales abounded with Canadian prisoners being offered fruit-

flavoured condoms, Cambodians being urged to eat more dogs and China axing haemorrhoid TV ads during meal times.