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Bovill, Idaho, residents are fed up with Lloyd Hall’s bovines doing their duty on lawns across the neighborhood – and some have fought back.

Hall, 77, a former mayor who served 45 years and owns 17 cows, complains that somebody corralled seven of his herd.

A city councilman admitted that he and other residents took five of the cattle to a pen as stray cows. Hall can claim the cattle if he pays $20 a head, plus impoundment costs.

An Israeli man nearly died of heart failure after hiring a call girl to come to his hotel room – and finding out it was his own daughter.

The 48-year-old businessman recovered, but when he told the sordid tale to his wife, she promptly filed divorce papers.

The Maariv paper reported the wife vowed to put their daughter back on the “right path” and demanded a divorce.

A 65-year-old Brazilian man had his house hit by cars in three different accidents in the same day.

Aldo Gomes was awakened at 5 a.m. when a car crashed into his home, causing little damage.

After tending to the driver and going back to sleep, Gomes was awakened again when a second car hit the house. Again, the driver wasn’t hurt, but the house’s gateway was destroyed.

Gomes spent the following morning fixing the gateway but, after lunch, a third car skidded and crushed a lamppost into his house.

A surgeon has warned porn star Gina Wild that her breast implants may be in danger when she steps into the ring for three rounds of celebrity boxing on a Fox TV affiliate in Germany.

Wild is scheduled to take on former pop star Samantha Fox on Oct. 26.

Dr. Thomas Jansen, who gave Wild her D-cup implants in 1998, said, “Although modern implants can withstand a great deal, the risk of them being damaged when boxing can never be ruled out.”

Cops canceled an egg fight in Grand Chute, Wis., and the local homeless and hungry are the better for it.

A total of 3,600 eggs were donated to a food pantry this week after police confiscated them from high school students about to celebrate homecoming by throwing eggs at one another.

“We knew it was coming through our grapevine, and we let the police know,” said Appleton North HS Principal Barry O’Connor.