If your guinea pig routinely dashes off into armed combat (or just likes the look of scale mail), you might want to outfit him or her in this handsome suit of armor, perfect for rolly-polly rodents.

After Lucky, the original owner of the armor and model for these photos, passed away, eBay seller mightys0x decided to auction off Lucky's armor. All of the proceeds from the auction will go to Metropolitan Guinea Pig Rescue in Virginia, the organization that rescued and adopted out Lucky. Lucky's owner made the scale mail and purchased the tiny helmet. The auction ends on June 21st.

http://io9.com/keep-your-guinea-pig-protected-with-a-rodent-sized-suit-513575846

The claim that Michael Jackson's ghost declared his own death an accident was actually heard in an eerie courtroom testimony — and the judge inexplicably let it stand.

Lionel Richie's ex-wife Brenda supposedly claimed that the King of Pop's spirit visited her to clear up that Jacko unintentionally took his own life, absolving the doctor — and the company who hired him — from blame for pumping Jackson full of deadly anesthetics.

"She said Michael told her it wasn't Dr. Murray's fault — that he had accidentally killed himself," AEG Live CEO Randy Phillips told jurors at Los Angeles County Superior Court Friday.

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/michael-jackson-ghost-court-dr-murray-innocent-article-1.1373550

New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft revealed the real story behind a 2005 meeting with Vladimir Putin, during which the Russian president pocketed his Super Bowl ring, worth more than $25,000. Kraft, at the time, claimed the diamond-encrusted bauble was a gift, but he now admits Putin stole it, and the White House intervened when he demanded it back.

Kraft explained the incident happened while Sandy Weill and other business execs were in St. Petersburg. “I took out the ring and showed it to [Putin], and he put it on and he goes, ‘I can kill someone with this ring,’ ” Kraft told the crowd at Carnegie Hall’s Medal of Excellence gala at the Waldorf-Astoria.“I put my hand out and he put it in his pocket, and three KGB guys got around him and walked out.”

Kraft released a statement at the time, “President Putin, a great and knowledgable sports fan, was clearly taken with its uniqueness. I decided to give him the ring as a symbol of the respect and admiration that I have for the Russian people and [his] leadership.

http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/kraft_putin_stole_bowl_ring_qtB16b5PI0jipYT6tQxUGO?utm_source=SFnewyorkpost&utm_medium=SFnewyorkpost

A tip of the hat to our American cousins over at Huffington Post Weird News for discovering what we think you'll all agree is the picture of the day and quite possibly the week/month/year. A dog's bottom that looks like Jesus in a robe:

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No sooner had the picture been posted to the internets by Reddit user Feature_Creature than Jezebel picked up on the story - but guess what? It's not even the only dog's butt that looks like Jesus!

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/06/14/dog-bottom-jesus-sighting_n_3440005.html?utm_hp_ref=uk-weird-news

Following the recent California summit between Barack Obama and Chinese president Xi Jinping, Chinese micro-bloggers picked up on an uncanny resemblance between a photograph of the two presidents strolling through the Sunnylands estate and a cartoon image of A. A. Milne’s cartoon creations.

The two images were published side by side this week on the Twitter-like Chinese social media site Weibo.

But the posts were almost immediately “harmonized”, as censors appeared to take exception to the comparison between their president and a podgy bear who once roamed Sussex’s Ashdown Forest.

Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post said over-zealous censors had “nipped in the bud what could have been a positive PR campaign tailor-made for President Xi Jinping.”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/10120738/Chinese-censors-target-Winnie-the-Pooh-and-Tigger.html

If you thought the strangest type of flatmate you'd find through the classifieds website Gumtree was an Australian one, think again.

Yes, take note, everyone - especially the people of Brighton - because there's someone in the Sussex city right now who's looking for a lodger. And that lodger's going to have to do something pretty special.

"Among the many things I have done in my life is to spend three years alone on St. Lawrence Island," writes the landlord/lady in question on Gumtree, innocuously enough.

But then they continue: "These were perhaps the most intense and fascinating years of my life, and I was kept in companionship with a walrus whom I named Gregory."

Mmm-hmm... Go on...

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/06/12/gumtree-lodger-walrus-advert-weird-news_n_3428644.html

This time, instead of appearing in a tortilla or a fabric softener stain, He's chosen a ceramic tile at Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport as His stage. The Christ's bearded visage is facing east in a floor tile at a security checkpoint in Terminal Three, home to American, Delta, and Frontier Airlines; apparently Jesus flies coach, as He's nowhere near the First Class Passengers Only sign there. How like Him!

My friend Jim, who's works for TSA at Sky Harbor, told me about Jesus. I've known Jim since 1974; we even attended Mass together sometimes when we were little kids and both still Catholic, so I knew he was dead serious when he told me that Jesus' face had appeared in the floor of his workplace. I hurried down there, and let me tell you something: As apparitions of Jesus go, this one's pretty cool. He looks a little bit more like the Zig Zag Rolling Papers man than other Jesuses I've seen, but it's definitely Him.

None of the TSA workers seemed all that interested in talking to me about Jesus. One of them said, "Yeah, it kind of looks like God, I guess," when I pointed out Tile Jesus. "All I know is, we've sure had some weirdos around here, ever since it showed up."

I struck up a conversation with one of those weirdos, an unemployed dental hygienist named Becky Martin, who was sitting against a nearby wall reading a Donna Fleisher novel when I introduced myself. "It's definitely Our Lord Jesus Christ," she told me. "He appears to us from time to time in ordinary places, to remind us that He is here with us always, being our spiritual guide."

http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/jackalope/2013/06/christ_image_tile_phoenix_airport.php

Is The Naked BART Man Roaming SF's Streets in Costume to Evade Police?

A tipster just emailed us to say that his girlfriend Stephanie was walking around Sue Bierman Park in San Francisco's Financial District today and happened across a creepy-masked busker who looked strangely familiar.

Could this be the infamous Naked BART Man who currently has an outstanding warrant for his arrest on suspicion of misdemeanor battery?

The tipster flipped through the photos on the Facebook page of Yeiner Perez's former circus troupe ClownSnotBombs, and sure enough, he found a photo of Perez wearing the exact same outfit (above, right).

http://gawker.com/is-the-naked-bart-man-roaming-sfs-streets-in-costume-t-513230134

Of course, that was before the he realized he was at the wrong event. As it turns out, Hall and his staffers were under the impression that they were attending an event for a fellow congressman, an event scheduled for that same day. After being welcomed into the event and offered refreshments, Hall inquired about the congressman whom he was there to support. After being told that he was indeed in the wrong place, the longtime conservative quickly left the premises — that is, as quickly as a 90-year-old can physically leave a premises.

“At that moment I realized that this was not the reception I intended to attend, and I put down my glass, thanked the sponsor, and told him we would be leaving,” Hall said.

The shock of the attendees regarding Hall’s presence was evidenced on Twitter, as many wondered whether or not he was there on purpose or if he actually was just lost.

http://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/2013/06/rep-ralph-hall-wanders-into-lgbt-event-enjoys-hospitality-before-realizing-hes-in-wrong-place/

LIBERTY, N.Y. (AP) -- A 22-year-old Connecticut man who wrote obscenities and "Tyranny" on his speeding ticket payment claims in a federal lawsuit that his free speech rights were violated when he was arrested.

William Barboza is suing two police officers in the Catskill-area village of Liberty over the arrest.

Barboza had replaced the word "Liberty" with "Tyranny" and added an obscenity-laced insult on the payment form accompanying an August 2012 ticket.

The lawsuit filed by the New York Civil Liberties Union says the Fairfield County man was ordered to town court, where he was handcuffed and arrested for aggravated harassment. He posted $200 bail that day. The charge was dismissed in March.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_SPEEDING_TICKET_OBSCENITY?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2013-06-13-14-40-49