A Chinese robber has threatened to blow up a restaurant with sausages, disguised as explosives, strapped to his body.

The 23-year-old man ate a meal at the restaurant, in Benxi, Liaoning Province, before grabbing the owner's daughter.

He put a knife to her neck and demanded cash from the till �C but the restaurateur and other diners overpowered him.

They called the police �C but when officers arrived the man, named He, jumped to his feet and revealed his "explosive" sausage belt.

Police managed to restrain He, take him outside and call bomb disposal experts, reports the 'Huashang Morning Post'.

"When the experts arrived, they laughed out loud as they quickly realized the explosives were actually sausages," said a police spokesman.

He said he staged the robbery because he was depressed after splitting up with his girlfriend. He told police he had been "inspired" by the shape of the sausages.

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A bigamist surnamed Chang from Yiwu, Zhejiang Province was detained by police when he returned from Mexico where he had fled to avoid the law and the wrath of his two wives.

Chang, a businessman, had married a Zhejiang woman surnamed Li in 2005, followed by one surnamed Wang, a Beijing woman who was studying in Mexico in 2007 when she met and wed him.

But Chang's double happy love turned into double trouble when all three registered on a Chinese online friendship community. It was there that Wang and Li struck up an Internet friendship and found they had something more in common after they exchanged their wedding photos.

Chang's cheating heart was exposed and reported to Chinese authorities who waited until he re-entered the country to bring him to justice.

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Yu Feng from Fushan, in Liaoning province, claims a dying snake who he nursed back to health saved his family by raising the alarm when their house was on fire.

"I initially treated the sick snake with herbal medicines, and in 20 days it recovered," Yu said.

He took the snake to a nearby mountain more than a mile away to release it back into the wild - but the next morning it was back at his house.

"I then set it free another two times, but it always came back," Yu added. "People around me said the snake had come back to repay my kindness, so I kept it."

He named the snake Long Long and adopted it as a pet - then one night, he claims it saved the whole family.

Yu explained: "I was asleep when suddenly I felt something cold on my face. I opened my eyes and it was Long Long.

"He had never woken me up before but I was so sleepy I went back to sleep. But Long Long grabbed my clothes with his teeth and whipped the bed with his tail.

"Then he went to my mother's bed and whipped her bed with his tail. I then smelt something burning and saw my house was on fire."

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A New York woman is suing a bar - after she suffered concussion when she was hit by a falling moose head.

Raina Kumra says she was minding her own business at the 'White Slab Palace' on the Lower East Side when the stuffed head fell off a wall.

In papers filed in the Manhattan Supreme Court, her lawyer complained: "The taxidermy moose head weighed approximately 150lbs, with antlers spanning over three feet."

Ms Kumra says it caused her "chronic neck pain, anxiety, fatigue, dizziness and other serious and severe personal injuries," including "embarrassment".

The suit seeks unspecified money damages from the bar for "failing to ensure that the plaintiff and other patrons of the defendants would not be struck by the loosely affixed... moose head".