Offbeat news is the best kind of news. It doesn’t try to change your life or stress you out. It just reminds you how ridiculous people - and sometimes pets - can be.

These latest stories from across the globe are weird, funny, and 100% real.

Hotpot Horror in China

In Shanghai, one of China’s biggest restaurant chains just made headlines for all the wrong reasons. Two teenage boys - yes, 17-year-olds named Wu and Tang (no joke) - decided to pee into a huge vat of bubbling hotpot broth at a popular Haidilao restaurant. Yes, pee. Right into the soup.

Kee / Pexels / Two Japanese tourists (in their ‘20s) were jailed because of ‘mooning’ on China’s Great Wall.

The company admitted they had zero plan for “this type of incident.” The staff didn’t notice anything weird, but customers sure did—especially when the video went viral. Furious diners slammed the chain online, accusing them of covering it up at first and calling whistleblowers “malicious spreaders.” Turns out, the real problem was in the pot.

The Great Wall Gets Mooned

Next up in offbeat news: two Japanese tourists caused a storm by mooning on China’s Great Wall. These were not kids. They were in their 20s. One dropped his pants, and the other took photos. The internet caught wind, and so did the Chinese police.

They were held for two weeks before being sent back to Japan. Online reactions were brutal. China still holds deep resentment over Japan’s wartime history, and this little stunt did not go over well. Celebrities even joined in calling out the disrespect.

What was meant to be a goofy vacation snap turned into an international embarrassment!

Prince William’s Lucky Sofa

Over in the UK, things got weird in a more innocent way. Prince William, the future king, revealed a strange superstition during a chat with The Sun. He confessed to rearranging his kids around the living room to help Aston Villa win football matches.

Helena / Pexels / A dog shoots his owner in the leg while the owner was asleep! The man survived, but this is no rare occurrence.

"If we’re not doing very well, I move them around," he said. It is basically a royal version of lucky socks. Apparently, it works - Aston Villa is now in the Champions League quarter-finals. Superstitious? Maybe. Ridiculous? Definitely. But hey, who is going to argue with the results?

Dog Shoots Man (Really)

In the United States, a man in Memphis was shot in the leg while he slept. But the shooter was not a burglar or a family member - it was his dog. Oreo, a playful pit bull terrier, accidentally fired a gun after stepping on the trigger.

His owner’s partner said, “He likes to jump around... and it just went off.” The man survived, but this is not Oreo’s first offense. Dogs shooting humans is not totally unheard of in the U.S. In past years, other dogs have triggered firearms during hunting trips or playtime. It is both funny and terrifying.