PARIS — The economic crisis in Spain has had the unintentional consequence of forcing warring couples who cannot afford divorces to remain together. Now, a judge in Seville has ordered a divorcing couple to split their 2,700-square-foot apartment down the middle.

The property belongs to the husband’s parents, but the judge ordered the man to bisect it to create two independent abodes, citing economic considerations and the well-being of the couple’s two daughters, ages 6 and 7, according to the written ruling released by the court this month.

Josep Maria Torres, a family law expert at Roca & Junyent, a leading law firm in Barcelona, said Friday that the ruling was highly unusual. “It is an extraordinary decision that could encourage other judges to seek similarly extreme solutions,” he said. “Spain’s economic crisis has changed everything.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/14/world/europe/spanish-judge-partitions-warring-couples-home.html?ref=todayspaper&_r=1&

PERU, Ind. (WISH) - A 21-year-old Peru man was arrested after police say he drunkenly cut his neighbor's flag down from a pole and burned it in his backyard on Aug. 5.

Brett Bishop told police he got drunk and went into his neighbor's yard with a BB gun to get his dog. He told police officials that he stole frozen pork from the neighbor's freezer and slashed the tires of a vehicle in the garage.

Bishop told officials he remembered cutting down the flag, but didn't remember burning it. He went on to say he remembered burning his hand while trying to light something, but couldn't remember what that something was.

http://www.wishtv.com/news/local/police-man-burned-neighbors-us-flag?hpt=ju_bn5

Now that the dust has settled from the "bloody diarrhea outbreak," Federico's Mexican Food will be offering free burritos on Monday.

You can get your burrito at only one location -- the one where Maricopa County health officials believe an E. coli outbreak sickened 74 people, who ended up with the aforementioned bloody diarrhea.

The outbreak came only from the Federico's location in Litchfield Park, and health officials attribute it to a certain kind of E. coli bacteria: E. coli O157. That restaurant location voluntarily closed but will be serving free burritos for Mexican Independence Day, which is on Monday.

http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/valleyfever/2013/09/federicos_mexican_food_offerin.php

A Brazilian man recovering from a stroke has turned into a philanthropist after damage to parts of his brain changed his personality in a way previously unheard of by doctors.

The 49-year-old senior manager of a large corporation found that he could not stop giving away money and spending cash liberally on sweets, food and drinks for children he met in the street. His wife told doctors her husband’s generosity had led to significant family distress and almost bankrupted them.

The man, referred to as Mr A, suffered a stroke triggered by high blood pressure. This led to bleeding in his subcortical region, an area immediately below the cerebral cortex, associated with higher-level thinking and decision-making.

Psychiatrists at the University of Rio de Janeiro concluded that the stroke had disrupted Mr A’s emotional behaviour and judgement. Typical symptoms following damage to this region include depression, which Mr A has also displayed.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/businessman-suffers-stroke-then-cant-stop-giving-his-money-away-8803950.html

SAGINAW COUNTY, MI (WNEM) -

WNEM.com has a somewhat strange but funny story to relay.

Sometime Friday night, a Michigan Department of Transportation information sign was hacked along I-75. The sign was warning motorists that "I-75 is closed due to loose gorilla."

The sign was near River Road near the Zilwaukee Bridge. The sign was corrected by 7 a.m. on Saturday.

http://www.wnem.com/story/23381254/hacked-i-75-sign-warns-drivers-of-loose-gorilla

The "world's smallest pony" has been snatched from a horse show in Umbria, central Italy. A spokesperson for the fair told The Local they suspected the 63-centimetre novelty steed called Charly would be held for ransom.

Police are searching for a small steed measuring just 63 centimetres, after it was stolen during the 47th National Horse Show in Città di Castello, in the central region of Umbria.

The petite pony, named Charly, currently holds the World Record for the smallest horse making him “very valuable” according to a spokesperson at the horse show.

According to Italian media reports, thieves cut through the netting surrounding the pony’s enclosure on Thursday night before making off with the steed through a nearby tobacco field. The alarm was later raised by the pony's owner.

http://www.thelocal.it/20130913/worlds-smallest-horse-kidnapped-from-show

The Capital Regional District has an online tool (myrecyclopedia.ca) that provides information on how to recycle unconventional items – but it has its limitations. If you want to dispose of a rocket launcher, for example, your search comes up empty.

So Saanich police are telling the public that throwing a rocket launcher in a recycling bin at the landfill is not the way to get rid of military weaponry, after somebody did just that last week. On Wednesday (Sept. 4) Hartland staff discovered the weapon in a bin at the dump.

“Their concern was that it may be usable,” said Sgt. Steve Eassie. “At this point it is inert, it is no longer housing what was once a rocket inside the missile launcher.”

http://www.vicnews.com/news/223149081.html

A naked man stunned revellers when he had sex with a phwoar-wheel drive car.

Drunken Daniel Cooper - who is known by the nickname “Hotcock” - started grinding against the blue 4x4 Land Rover Discovery.

A court heard Cooper, 24, was caught on CCTV simulating sex with the LandRover which was parked outside a takeaway restaurant.

Cooper said he was so drunk he could not remember what happened - until he was shown the CCTV pictures of his LandRover lust.

Father-of-three Cooper - described as normally being “a caring family man” - stripped off during a drunken night out with friends.

A court heard that earlier shocked revellers had seen him simulate sex with the counter of the kebab shop.

Married man Cooper was also seen laying on the floor of the takeaway to simulate sex - with his trousers around his ankles.

Check out all the latest News, Sport & Celeb gossip at Mirror.co.uk http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/daniel-cooper-sex-land-rover-2266791#ixzz2en0gOTlk

Felix Jeronimo Gonzalez-Becerra, 42, a McDonald’s manager in Pleasanton, Calif., is being held in the San Mateo County Jail for allegedly donning a mask and robbing the restaurant he managed and a second franchise as well, according to police.

On August 28 at 3 a.m., a Hispanic male robbed the Pimlico McDonald’s in Pleasanton, according to police. He entered climbing through the drive-thru window sporting a black and gray hoodie, a white full-face mask, and gloves used for food preparation. The robber allegedly pointed a revolver at employees, demanded cash from the office safe and then forced them into a walk-in freezer. He then escaped with the cash, police said.

Then at 10:35 p.m. on September 2, San Mateo police responded to an armed robbery at a McDonald’s located in the Laurelwood Shopping Center, police said. This time a robber entered the store from the front, herded employees into the refrigerator at gunpoint, then forced an employee to open the safe, according to police. The suspect fled with the cash.

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2013/09/masked-mcdonalds-manager-allegedly-robs-own-restaurant/

For the past 20 years, Janice “Lokelani” Keihanaikukauakahihuliheekahaunaele has had to carry two identification cards.

“The county has never accommodated my name on my driver’s license,” Keihanaikukauakahihuliheekahaunaele said.

Instead, it drops the 36th letter of her last name and doesn’t print her first or middle name. So she also carries a state ID, which in the past, included her full name.

“The governor’s office went back into the computer department and they found a way to put our name on our state ID,” Keihanaikukauakahihuliheekahaunaele said

http://www.khon2.com/2013/09/10/action-line-state-alters-womans-name-after-it-fails-to-fit-on-drivers-license/