Talk about in-your-face campaigning.
A 30-year-old Indiana man went on eBay to offer his face as ad space.
The winning bidder was an anonymous Mitt Romney supporter who paid Eric Hartsburg $15,000 to get a tattoo of his candidate’s “R’’ logo on his cheek.
Hartsburg is now offering his forehead for a minimum of $5,000.
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Shelve this in the mystery section.
Proving that fiction may be stranger than fact, someone donated a novel with a secret compartment inside it to the Valparaiso, Ill., library.
It was made by hollowing out pages — and it contained a historic handgun, a gold, .31-caliber, single-shot, black-powder weapon with a wooden handle.
The library said it’s impossible to trace the donor.
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This gets our vote for most bizarre last wish in recent memory.
When Milena Markovic, of Belgrade, Serbia, died, she asked her husband, Milan, to have a replica of her vagina engraved on her tombstone — so he’d look at it instead of “chasing other women.’’
It took Milan nearly three years to find a stonecutter up to the task.
“Now that it’s finished, I love it,’’ he said.
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A Welsh man died while drinking at his pal’s pub.
The owner of the bar didn’t report it for four days, because he was afraid authorities would shut him down over the weekend, his busiest time.
But a woman who helped him hide the body in the building had second thoughts and ratted him out.
He got 15 months in jail.
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This is just in time for Halloween.
An Australian businessman is turning a disused morgue in Tasmania into a motel.
Each room will have a double bed — plus three slabs for those demanding more authenticity.