Weird News

The bizarre dish has become a delicacy in Cambodia, and the owner of Bull City Burger and Brewery in North Carolina, Seth Gross, said he wanted to sell them to encourage "diversity".

Gross only gets 15 of the creatures in each month, and says punters have to be drawn out of a hat to get the chance to try the creepy-crawly dish, which is deep-fried and tastes like chips.

He said: "You come in, you fill in a lottery ticket. If we draw your name, you come and get to eat one."

Those who enter have to wait 48 hours to claim their prize.

Kristin Barnaby, who suffers from arachnophobia, managed to cure her fear of arachnids by tucking into the burger.

Asked what it tasted like, she said: "It reminded me of potato chips. I like to eat weird food."

Firefighters in Indianapolis received a call from a woman who claimed her pet raccoon was too stoned to move.

The Wayne Township Fire Department took to Facebook to confirm the bizarre incident.

They recounted how the woman was frantically knocking on the door of the firehouse at 2 a.m. to get help after the animal had been exposed to too much marijuana smoke.

The fire department wrote: "They [the firefighters] could tell that the raccoon was lethargic and met all of those symptoms that we typically run into when someone's been exposed to marijuana."

The raccoon's owner eventually took her pet home so it could sleep off the symptoms, and the fire department were 'sorry' they weren't able to provide more help.

They said: "We do appreciate that our citizens turn to us in their toughest moments for help. We hope in time the raccoon made a full recovery."