New York Nap Company

And now for some of the stranger stories in the news this week...

Just call New York City the Big Nap-ple. In an effort to make it the city that sometimes sleeps, a company based in the Empire State Building called MetroNaps offers people a place to nap for 20 minutes for the low, low price of 14 dollars.

Now, between the honking, yelling, begging and more honking, catching some Zs in New York is about as easy as catching a cab on a rainy night, so the company provides white noise machines to block out sound for their slumbering clients. In addition, customers rest in recliners similar to those you see in dental offices -- only these don't come with sinks to spit in.

After 20 minutes, customers receive a wake-up call in the form of a beam of light and vibrations from the chair. MetroNaps does not suggest anything longer than a 20-minute nap, claiming it leaves people feeling more fatigued than re-energized.

Prostitutes aren't the only people who sell their bodies to pay the bills. A pair of loan sharks in China recently tried to force a man to sell one of his kidneys to pay back the 36 hundred dollars he owed them.

The loan sharks kidnapped the man and de-"liver"-ed him to a hospital where they ex-"pleen"-ed to doctors they wanted the man's kidney removed. Doctors refused and the man managed to escape after the goons drove him to another hospital.

One of the loan sharks has since been arrested, while the other is on the loose. Despite his attempts to enter someone else into the flesh trade, authorities charged the man they caught with illegally detaining a person.

Maurice Teague really socked it to a nine-year-old boy. Actually, he socked it from the child. Teague has been arrested for dragging a nine-year-old boy behind a grocery store and stealing his socks last Friday in Columbus, Ohio. The 28-year-old told police he has a fetish, as evidenced by his collection of over 500 pairs of kids' socks.

Now, before you go accusing Teague of being a total loon, you should know he is a reasonable freak. Before stealing the socks, he offered the boy up to ten dollars for them, but the tyke rejected the offer. That's when Teague sprung to action and helped himself to the socks, courtesy of the five-fingered discount. He ripped off the boy's shoes and socks and split with the socks in his possession.

Teague was done in when he left his ID at the scene and the boy's mother called police.