Some short ones...

• Here is a brief sample of some allegedly true but certainly eccentric news stories that lend themselves to role play in a practical way because they are so short...
  
  
  
  
  
  
• A man sued his doctor because he survived his cancer longer than the doctor predicted.

• Two robbers were in the process of their crime when one changed his mind and arrested the other.

• A woman had her husband's ashes made into an egg timer when he died so he could still "help" in the kitchen.
  
  
• Only 68 of 200 Anglican priests polled could name all Ten Commandments, but half said they believed in space aliens.