Entertainment Story

04 July 2009 23:40 BST

Quirkies: Musical condoms, life-saving breasts and pets on the big screen

Music has often been associated with setting the mood for having sex, but one condom manufacturer has taken this one step further by developing musical condoms. Grigoriy Chausovsky, from Zaporozhye, has fitted the condoms with a special sensor that registers when the condom has been put on. A miniature speaker at the base of the condom then plays the music as things gather momentum.

"As the sex becomes more passionate, it registers the increased speed of the movements and plays the melody faster and louder," Chausovsky explained.

As well as providing a soft pillow, breast implants appear to also provide a soft landing. According to the Bulgarian newspaper Standart, Elena Marinova only survived a car crash thanks to her silicon implants.

Witnesses said that the woman drove through a red light and collided with another car, with one onlooker telling the paper: "The two cars were crumpled past recognition in the crash but the woman's silicone breasts acted as airbags and saved her life."

In events that could happen only in America, pet owners are suing an animal talent agency for failing to turn their animal into the next big thing on screen. Hollywood Paws (HP) offers media training for pets, but some disgruntled owners are hacked off that their cheques paying for the help have not yet wielded any results.

HP owner Larry Lionetti argues that he never promised that their pets would be stars and that Hollywood is a cut-throat place for those hoping to make it on the silver screen. "Everybody knows down in your town that there are actors and actresses waiting on tables until a part comes along," he said. "Who in LA doesn't know this?"

Conkers have come in for a fair deal of flak over the past few years, with authorities warning that they are too dangerous to play with. And now a group of young boys have had their conker haul confiscated by a policewoman. The boys were then sent home with forms telling them they had been stopped and searched, enraging their mothers.

Sussex Police told the Sun: We confiscated a large bag of conkers. The forms are a necessary form of bureaucracy to ensure parents are aware we have spoken to their children."

It's not only conkers that people should be looking out for, but pears apparently. Following on from its conker outrage reportage, the Sun also reports that signs have been put up warning people that, shockingly, pears could fall from pear trees.

Although the trees have been in the park for 50 years without any problems, council workers in St John's, Worcester, erected the signs after fears that people could sue them if they became injured by a wayward pear.