TIANJIN — Zhao Liang, measuring 8 feet 7 inches tall, may now be the tallest man in the world. He recently went to the hospital for tendon pain in his left foot that he has been experiencing for three years. This injury prevented him from continuing to train as a basketball player in 2006.

His parents, both of average height, were concerned for their son as he sought employment with a circus troop, playing saxophone and performing magic tricks.

Doctors at a Tianjin hospital recognized his potential as a record-holder after measuring him to be 3.9 inches taller than the current holder of this title, Bao Xishun.

Liang is awaiting official recognition from the Guinness World Records.

SCOTLAND — Strathclyde recently had its police force list an unusual religion on its officer records. According to the updated files, eight officers practice the religion of “Jedi.”

These files were meant to monitor “six strands of diversity,” encompassing age, disabilities, gender, race, religion and sexual orientation.

Strathclyde has the largest police force in Scotland and is now the only force of the 55 polled U.K. forces to list any Jedis.

INDIA — Surgeons have discovered a medical rarity in a 26-year-old man inhabiting the body of a toddler.

Jerly Lyngdoh, who lives with his parents, measures 2 feet 9 inches tall, appearing in every way to be a toddler, with the exception of his adult teeth.

Lyngdoh’s case is considered to be a glandular defect, as his body failed to secrete growth hormones. Though his parents continue to dress him in baby clothes, he is still 4 inches taller than China’s He Pingping, the world’s official shortest man.

COLORADO — A woman has been arrested on animal cruelty charges after adhering an 8-month-old puppy to a refrigerator with packing tape and binding its paws and snout with hair ties.

The event took place after a domestic dispute between 20-year-old Abby Toll and her boyfriend, 21-year-old Bryan Beck, when he failed to get rid of the puppy after it defecated in the apartment and bit her.

When officers arrived to the apartment, Toll informed them that she taped the dog to the refrigerator and that this was not a usual occurrence. Officers did not accept that her intent to get rid of the dog justified the means of subduing it during the interval of its residence with her.

Toll faces felony charges of animal cruelty and domestic violence, along with misdemeanor charges of criminal tampering and third-degree assault. Beck also faces charges associated with the domestic dispute.

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