Hilarious Events - Recent ones as (well as a few funnier ones past)

I have this habit of checking the BBC's pages and those of several other news agencies each day. And I do find certain VERY amusing stuff on them.

Remember the actual fun is within the article, especially the comments that the reporters get from people on the scene or those involved. So read it through. I've included the summary from each page here, but please click on the links and take a look at the news pages.

Here's a few that might interest you:

• Clarkson apologises for PM remark

Clarkson said: "He [Rudd] genuinely looked terrified. The poor man, he's actually seen the books.

"In England we have this one-eyed Scottish idiot... he keeps telling us

everything's fine and he's saved the world and we know he's lying, but he's smooth at telling us."

• Super Bowl porn hits US viewers

US sports fans in Arizona got a surprise when their TV coverage of American football's Super Bowl was interrupted by a pornographic film.

"I just figured it was another commercial until I looked up," viewer Cora Ki

ng told the Arizona Daily Star.

"Then he did his little dance with everything hanging out."

• Virgin: the world's best passenger complaint letter

"No sane person would serve a desert with a tomato would they. Well answer me this Richard, what sort of animal would serve a desert with peas in ..... I know it looks like a baaji but it’s in custard Richard, custard. It must be the pudding."

• New Zealand inmates foil own escape

CCTV has captured the moment when two handcuffed prisoners' attempt to escape custody came to a crashing end as they ran into a lamppost.

• 'Cello scrotum' hoaxer bows to her conscience

It's an embarrassing ailment which has apparently dogged musicians for decades - but, after 34 years, 'cello scrotum' has been revealed as a hoax.

• By the book: the low-down on how Nicolas Sarkozy wooed Carla Bruni

“How could you have stayed eight years with a man who has such ridiculous calves?”

• E-mail error ends up on road sign

When officials asked for the Welsh translation of a road sign, they thought the reply was what they needed.

Unfortunately, the e-mail response to Swansea council said in Welsh: "I am not in the office at the moment. Send any work to be translated".

Cyclists between Cardiff and Penarth in 2006 were left confused by a bilingual road sign telling them they had problems with an "inflamed bladder".

• Clarkson apologises for PM remark

Clarkson said: "He [Rudd] genuinely looked terrified. The poor man, he's actually seen the books.

"In England we have this one-eyed Scottish idiot... he keeps telling us

everything's fine and he's saved the world and we know he's lying, but he's smooth at telling us."

• Clarkson joke cleared by watchdog

As he completed a lorry-driving task, Clarkson said: "This is a hard job and I 'm not just saying that to win favour with lorry drivers, it's a hard job.

"Change gear, change gear, change gear, check mirror, murder a prostitute, change gear, change gear, murder. That's a lot of effort in a day."

• Australia holds 'pigeon smuggler'

A man has been caught with two pigeons stuffed in his trousers after he got off a flight from Dubai to Melbourne.

• Degree honour Clarkson hit by pie

Mr Clarkson, the face of BBC Two's Top Gear, was heard to say "great shot" when hit by the pie.