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CORPUS CHRISTI - Police in two Texas cities are looking for a man who apparently severed his own finger and mailed it to his ex-girlfriend along with a letter. An unidentified 32-year-old woman in Corpus Christi called police Friday when the grisly package arrived. The only details of the letter police released was the phrase: "This is the last chance to touch you," the Corpus Christi Caller-Times reported Tuesday. Investigators said the finger was cut cleanly and appeared to have been washed. There were also some threats, which relate to a previous incident of family violence earlier this month between the couple, police said.

 

PROVIDENCE - A former handy-man has won more than $400,000 in a lawsuit over a penile implant that has given him a 10-year erection. Charles Lennon, 68, received the steel and plastic implant in 1996, about two years before Viagra went on the market. The Dura-II is designed to allow impotent men to position the penis upward for sex, then lower it. But Lennon could not position his penis downward. He said he could no longer hug people, ride a bike, swim or wear bathing trunks because of the pain and embarrassment."

 

BEIJING - A woman in has been charged with accidentally killing her husband with a sword after he refused to make her dinner, the Shanghai Daily reported.   Police said Tang Xiaowan, 25, who has been practicing swordsmanship since she was young, had often forced her husband of three years at swordpoint to carry out her demands. Her husband, Li Weidong, refused to cook dinner because he was late for work. Police said Tang picked up her sword and put it on Li's chest when she apparently slipped, stabbing Li by mistake. Li died in the hospital from loss of blood.  

NEW DELHI - Husbands in India have found a new way to make some extra cash - they rent out their wives to other men. Atta Prajapati rents out his wife Laxmi to a landowner for $175 US a month. She is expected to live with the man, look after him and his house, and even have sex with him. The Times of India reports that several men rent their wives to other men on a month-by-month basis. These husbands are cashing in on the shortage of single woman in India, caused by the fact that many parents abort female fetuses, preferring sonsto daughters. The reason for this is because a daughter's parents usually have to pay the groom's family a  dowry, which is often a big financial burden.