More than 7,000 onions were stolen from a farm in North Dakota this past weekend. The onions, worth around $4000 are described by the farmer as being “a good sized pickup load.”

The Dixie Chicks’ tour bus was rear-ended Thursday near San Antonio, Texas, by a pickup truck driven by Larry Cox of Corpus Christi. None of the members of the group were injured in the crash.

The Portland Oregon Fire Bureau reported a woman set fire to her home while trying to kill roaches in her bed with a blowtorch. Around $4500 in damages ensued.

A 73-year-old Taiwanese woman, who suffered sharp pain whenever she had sex, was found to have had a needle in her vagina since 1949. The needle was left in the woman by a midwife 53 years ago after a caesarean birth. Doctors found the rusted object after performing a CT scan recently.

A man in Japan suffered head injuries early Tuesday after a hunter mistook him for a monkey and shot him. His injuries are not life-threatening. Police are questioning the hunter on suspicion of professional negligence resulting in injury.

A German man who beat his fiancée with a cat faces prosecution under Germany’s strict animal-rights laws. The drunken man continued the beating until the feline was a bloody pulp.

A Juneau, Alaska, city bus driver called police last week after he ordered a woman off his bus for eating a candy bar and she refused. The woman, who described her ethnicity as Middle Eastern, said she “felt like Rosa Parks.”