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Bad Day for bearings, as an Indian mechanic in Kuwait was taken to hospital after getting his penis stuck in a ring-shaped bearing as he was trying to have sex with it. "He was crying with pain when we got to him," said a rescuer.
Good Day for fat crooks, as 170kg Abdool Akoo was paroled from jail in South Africa because his bulk was putting too much strain on prison services.
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