Police in Auckland, New Zealand, had some sweet helpers in their latest search for a car burglar — a marching trail of Gummy Bears.

According to the Fairfax NZ News, a woman called police in the morning on Friday to report someone had broken into her car. But when officers arrived, they found nothing had been stolen but a package of the jelly candies.

Police followed the trail of Gummy Bears straight to their suspect, who was asleep surrounded by his loot, apparently drunk, according to the story. The story says he was charged for damaging the car and for theft.

Canadians know firsthand that when a snack craving hits, the situation can get out of hand. The story of a high-profile BBQ chip theft by drunken students in Saanich, B.C., went viral online last year. Even the police officer at the press conference couldn't stifle his laughter for long.

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More recently, however, a 38-year-old thief in Hamilton, Ont., decided not to fall into

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You won't find this orange kitty hiding under the bed when it's time to vacuum. The cat is a suction junky.

A video posted this week of a curious cat repeatedly licking a vacuum nozzle has already been viewed nearly 675,000 times, perhaps because the audience is just as perplexed as the cat.

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We've seen cats who can appreciate the value of a vacuuming before, such as this one, named BoBo, and this overweight, deaf cat, getting her loose hairs sucked away.

But the vacuum has this orange cat in a trance.

Even after the cat's face gets suctioned to the opening, it looks up as though in shock, then returns promptly to licking.

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Social media users, true to form, ate up the video faster than the cat could lick up all that moving air.

So good. RT @kenyatta: Keeping sane this morning through repeated views of "Cat Licking Vacuum Cleaner"

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For those glued to their laptops or TV screens in need a little levity here’s a two-minute dose of something nice.

The world’s oldest person, Jiroemon Kimura, just rang in his 116th birthday with a big
celebration (but not too big a celebration because… 116).

As Reuters reports, Kimura catapulted very, very gently to the top of the age charts this past December after previous title holder, Dina Manfredini of Iowa, shuffled off to the great bingo hall in the sky.

Surrounded by family and friends, the resident of Kyotango, a city in the Kyoto prefecture of Japan accepted the good wishes of impressed people from around the world.

"I truly congratulate you on your 116th birthday," Japanese Prime Minister Shenzo Abe expressed in a video message.

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"I'm 58 years old, still a young man at only half your age. Thanks to your generation's efforts, Japan could overcome several difficult times and achieve the prosperity we

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From an orangutan pretending to be a person to people getting stuck in sticky situations, we've seen some great videos this week. Here are our favourites:

1. Orangutan steals tourist's shirt

We're not sure if this orangutan was cold or just wanted to act more human, but either way it made one tourist pay for getting to close to the cage. Somehow the orangutan at a zoo in the Philippines got its hand on the man's shirt, ripped it right off of him, put it on and started parading around the cage on its hind legs.

2. Best Walmart greeter ever

It's always nice to shop somewhere where people like their job and that may just be what keeps people coming back to one Walmart. Well...that and the low prices. Mr. Willy says hello and goodbye to people as they walk in and out of the Walmart, but he does so much more than that. He says most people want a "Bam." And when everyone walks by him they know what that means. They put up a fist and Mr. Willy knocks it with his fist while

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Never lose your toilet again with the Canadian-designed NightGlow toilet seat.

The makers of a toilet seat that will light up your bathroom visits were willing to expose themselves to any number of potty jokes, nuclear or otherwise, apparently, in order to make night time trips to the loo a little easier.

Students at St. Clair College in Windsor and NightGlow Inc., created by Fittler Sales & Marketing, teamed up to create the glowing toilet seat, according to the Facebook page.

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For about $50, your toilet seat can glow green and blue, making sure you never get lost in your own house again.

Actually, some comments on the Facebook page suggest potential customers are intrigued, with a few saying they've already purchased and some asking where to buy. Tim Fittler told CBC news he was planning to market his new product to hospitals and nursing homes, among other spaces.

In February, the marketing team uploaded a video celebrating the

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Chris Weir doesn't need to tune in at the same bat time on the same bat channel to get his fix of the superhero that's fueled his home-design ambitions.

He built his own Batcave, complete with a home theatre and a secret lever to open the door, according to Barcroft Media.

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In a video touring the $150,000 bat cave, Weir says he was planning his vision for a superhero lair before he even bought the house. He says he made sure there was plenty of basement space.

Naturally, he has about 2,000 comic books, plus a bat suit and a whole host of other memorabilia. However, Weir's obsession falls into perspective when he opens a Shakespeare bust, pulls a lever and waits for the bookshelf to swing open, revealing the entrance to his elaborate cave.

Weir says it took about two and a half years to finish building his dream basement and now his family descends "nightly" into the cave to watch Batman television shows and films.

Reading a Superman

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Same sex marriage has a huge, witty, articulate supporter in the form Maurice Williamson.

The New Zealand MP delivered a sharp, crowd-pleasing speech in front of parliament yesterday in support of the country’s recently passed Marriage Amendment bill.

New Zealand recently became the first Asia-Pacific nation to extend all the legal rights of state-recognized matrimony to two people who love each other and also happen to share the same gender.

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Williamson tackled some of the more extreme reactions of the anti-gay marriage movement and highlighted the ridiculousness of their arguments.

“I’ve had a reverend in my local electorate call and say the ‘gay onslaught’ will start the day after this bill is passed,” he began.

“We are really struggling to know what the gay onslaught will look like,” Willamson continued. “We don’t know if it will come down the Packuranga Highway as a series of troops or whether it will be a

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Performers rehearse for the opening of the 28th Janadriya Heritage and Culture Festival, in Janadriya, outskirts of Riyadh April 3, 2013.Is being too handsome a problem?

That is the dilemma facing three men from the United Arab Emirates. Apparently the men were forcibly removed from an annual culture festival in Saudi Arabia. They were sent back to the UAE after it was suggested that women might find them irresistible.

Saudi Arabia, a strictly conservative Sunni Muslim society, prohibits women from interacting with men they are not related to.

“A festival official said the three Emiratis were taken out on the grounds they are too handsome and that the Commission members feared female visitors could fall for them,” the Saudi newspaper, Elaph, said.

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It was reported that the police were on high alert, due to an “unnamed female artist” attending the event. However, it was not confirmed if the Emirati men were evicted in connection with the artist.

The UAE nationals were attending a heritage event in Riyadh on Sunday when they were thrown

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