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A road in the Guernsey parish of St Martin has been given an unusual name, which is no name at all.

The little stretch of tarmac that runs north from the Route de la Foret to the Chemin Le Roi has had no need for a name, as no property fronted onto it.

However, when an auto-repair business opened up there, one was required for a postage address.

So the parish Douzaine decided to call it the "rue sans nom", French for "road without a name".

The vast majority of roads in Guernsey have names that stretch far back into island history.

Occasionally, however, a new development necessitates the naming of a previously anonymous road.

Parish Constable Richard Strappini, who has researched the history of the area, said according to custom a subcommittee of the Douzaine had been given responsibility for coming up with the new moniker.

He said: "The process is fairly informal but of course the names have got to be appropriate.

"It's meant to be witty and I think people take it that way. It makes people sit up and think."

Mr Strappini explained that there is, in Guernsey, no official register of road names. However, it is very rare for any changes to be made once a name is given.

He told us: "Once something is established, then it passes on and people simply do not change the name of a road willy-nilly.

"So road names go as far back in history as the roads have been there and it's very unusual for a road not to have a name."

Even more unusual, one could say, is a road without a name that is transformed into a road that does have a name and becomes the "road with no name".

US police caught two teenagers trying to buy marijuana when they mistakenly sent a text message to the local sheriff instead of their drug dealer.

The sheriff in Montana replied to the message and organised for an undercover policeman to meet with the boys, aged 15 and 16.

One of the teenagers reportedly fainted when the narcotics officer flashed his badge.

The sheriff says the boys would not be charged since their parents were eager to take care of their punishment themselves.

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'Buzz Lightyear' shaped carrot

Accordting to the Daily Telegraph of September 6, Clive Williams Henley on Thames, Oxon, UK discovered a carrot that looks like Buzz Lightyear from Toy Story while digging up his vegetable patch. The retired electrical engineer immediately ran inside to show his three grandchildren the strangely shaped vegetable.

Looks more like a big daddy

A brain expert says a change in blood flow due to stroke or migraines is the likely cause of an English woman waking up with a French-sounding accent.

Kay Russell, 49, used to have a southern English accent, but her voice changed after she went to sleep with a severe migraine.

Ms Russell has been diagnosed with foreign accent syndrome, an extremely rare condition that can be a side effect of severe brain injury or migraine.

Professor Ian Hickie from the Brain and Mind Institute says the Gloucestershire woman likely suffered an injury which affected the blood flow in the area of the brain which controls speech.

"If you change the brain blood flow, like a small stroke, you can severely interfere with being able to form words and make them sound in the way that you normally do, so they sound very odd," he said.

"People can report that they sound Chinese or they sound French - they certainly don't sound like themselves."

But Professor Hickie says the woman has not really acquired a foreign accent.

"Sadly it's a brain injury-type phenomenon but unlike some other sorts of strokes where people can't speak at all or can't understand what is being said, this is a change in the way the brain controls your normal vocalisation," he said.

"So you can speak but you don't make the sound, the mechanics, the movements required of all those complicated bits to come out as our normal voice."

Previous cases have included people whose newly found accents sounded German, Spanish, Welsh, Italian, Irish or Chinese.

WHEN faced with the news her boyfriend was going to leave her, a Russian woman took the extreme action.

She blasted his penis off during his sleep.

The woman, named as Kira V, had suggested a farewell dinner after hearing the news she was about to be dumped.

During the meal she plied her lover with alcohol in order to ensure he wouldn't wake up as she tied several firecrackers to his appendage.

After a two-year relationship the man, named by www.life.ru as Alik D, had decided that rather than marry his Kira, it would be best for him to return to his first wife. He had previously fathered a child with his ex and wanted to spend more time with his son.

Kira now faces up to 12 years in prison for her actions and Alik is currently in intensive care, where doctors are battling to save his life.

I don't know why I feel that story is a re-post