Following is a summary of current odd news briefs.
Watch this movie and win $10,000?
A Bollywood filmmaker has issued a lucrative challenge to horror movie fans: a $10,000 reward for anyone who can watch his latest supernatural thriller, alone, in a cinema until the closing credits. Ram Gopal Varma's "Phoonk 2," a sequel to his 2008 film of the same name, is about an evil spirit that traumatizes a family. "Anyone who says the movie cannot scare him is going to be put in a theater by himself," Varma told reporters in Mumbai at an event to promote the movie.
Protestant leader regrets driving drunk
The leader of Germany's 25 million Protestants was stopped for running a red light while driving under the influence of alcohol, the Hanover state prosecutors office said on Tuesday. Margot Kaessmann, 51, had a blood-alcohol level that was more than three times the legal limit, Hanover state prosecutor Juergen Lendeckel told Reuters. He said Kaessmann was under investigation and could lose her driver's license for a year.
Her Facebook status changed to "single?" Ur dumped
Digital dumping is on the rise, according to a survey, with growing numbers of people preferring to use email and social networking Web sites to break up with their partners. Over one third of 2,000 people polled (34 percent) said they had ended a relationship by email, 13 percent had changed their status on Facebook without telling their partners and six percent had released the news unilaterally on Twitter.
New travel agency offers the bear necessities
A newly formed Czech travel agency is offering escorted trips for pampered toys. Send them your favorite animal and they will whisk it around the sights of Prague, taking photographs of it against backgrounds like Prague Castle or the Charles Bridge.
Adrenaline addicts seek designer thrills
Thrill-seekers in France tired of the usual array of white-knuckle sports are turning to a bizarre new service to get their adrenaline rush -- designer abduction. For 900 euros ($1,226), clients of Ultime Realite ("Ultimate Reality"), a firm in eastern France, can buy a basic kidnap package where they're bundled away, bound and gagged, and kept incarcerated for four hours.
Who let the dogs pig out?
Someone once said that if your dog is fat you're not getting enough exercise. So it's no surprise that as human obesity rates soar, man's best friend is loyally packing on the pounds as well.