Best of 2020: Mystery monoliths, toilet paper robberies and other odd stories from the year 4:12am, 31 Dec, 2020 Would you use a snake as a face mask, or throw a child over a fence? Comment 6 hours ago 4 Apr, 2021 3 Apr, 2021 3 Apr, 2021 2 Apr, 2021 2 Apr, 2021 A whale tail sculpture holds the front carriage of a metro train as it rammed through the end of an elevated section of tracks in Spijkenisse, near Rotterdam, Netherlands. Photo: AP The coronavirus has not given us much to laugh about in 2020. Yet the year still had its fair share of the weird and the wonderful. Here is our pick of some of its wackiest stories ...