Cairns, Australia — A man was arrested after stuffing his pants with sausages last week in a supermarket in Cairns, Australia.

Once the 38-year-old had concealed the meat upon his person, as well as several other unspecified items, employees of the supermarket became suspicious and detained him. The arrest was made once the shoplifting attempt was discovered, and the sausages were confiscated.

Ironically, this supermarket has become well known for its lackadaisical security after shoplifters spent two days removing trolley loads of merchandise from the store.

Management of the supermarket was fast to assure the public that the confiscated sausages were not returned to saleable stock.

South Korea — After 950 failed attempts that amounted to $4,200 in application fees, 68-year-old Cha Sa-soon has passed her written drivers exam.

Though she earned the minimum passing score of 60, Cha is now eligible to take the practical portion of the drivers’-licensing process to complete the goal she undertook in April 2005.

“I believe you can achieve your goal if you persistently pursue it,” Cha was quoted in previous coverage of her attempts to acquire certification for driving. “So don’t give up your dream, like me. Be strong, and do your best.”

Oklahoma — A couple driving along a rural road in Oklahoma nearly made two tons of roadkill last week.

Bill Carpenter, 68, was driving with his wife when they suddenly realized that they were on a collision course with an elephant. Carpenter reported that the 29-year-old, 4,500-pound elephant blended in with the road. Without time to hit the brakes, he veered and sideswiped the misplaced animal.

The Carpenters were uninjured, and the elephant sustained a minor leg wound and broken tusk. The car, though, will need significant body work after the elephant’s tusk punctured the side and raked off portions of sheet metal.

The elephant escaped from the Family Fun Circus at the Garfield County Fairgrounds after getting spooked while being loaded into a truck with another elephant.

Ambridge, Pennsylvania — In perhaps the least desirable form of birth control yet discovered, a woman has been diagnosed with an allergy to her husband’s sperm.

Pennsylvania couple Mike and Julie Boyde married in 2005 and discovered the condition during their first intercourse experience without a prophylactic. Their story was told as an interview in the documentary Strange Sex.

Doctors were puzzled by the symptoms, which included burning, blisters and a needling sensation. Eventually, it was diagnosed as seminal plasma hypersensitivity, where Julie’s body recognized Mike’s sperm as a foreign protein, causing swelling, itching and inflamed nerve endings — similar to the reaction seen in peanut and pollen allergies.

Julie’s body renders Mike’s sperm inactive, and, though doctors have developed a treatment that has proven effective for other couples, it did not work for Mike and Julie.

They are currently pursuing adoption.

All information taken from The Metro, a U.K. news source.

Reach columnist Matthew Jackson at news@dailyuw.com.