From the BBC:

Two children in Spain have been admitted to a mental health institution to be treated for addiction to their mobile phones, Spanish media report.
The children, aged 12 and 13, were sent to the clinic by their parents, who said they could not carry out normal activities without their handsets.
They were doing badly at [...]

From the BBC:

A last drink proved one too many for a 78-year-old Swede who fell asleep while trying to row home - from Denmark.
Reports say the man had been drinking in the Danish town of Helsingor but found he did not have enough money for the ferry home to Sweden.
Instead of waiting until morning, he [...]

Am I supposed to be shocked by this?
The BBC:
 
Bulgaria’s Weightlifting Federation has withdrawn its team from this summer’s Beijing Olympics after 11 lifters failed drugs tests.
The federation said eight men and three women had tested positive for the banned substance methandienon.
…”The federation decided to withdraw the weightlifting team - men and women -from the Olympics,” [...]

Two rich mute donkeys from New York tried (and succeeded) in keeping slaves in their house for many years.
Reuters:
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A wealthy New York woman was sentenced to 11 years in prison on Thursday for keeping two Indonesian women as slaves, forcing them to work up to 20 hours a day for years [...]

I know I don’t have to convince you that this world is “going to hell in a hand basket” like my mom used to say, but this story should help clear it up a little.
From CNN:

Cops bust alleged brothel-on-wheels in Miami

MIAMI, Florida (AP) – An alleged brothel-on-wheels that authorities said they busted over the weekend gives [...]

Sometimes being a mute donkey just stinks. This story from The Smoking Gun certainly speaks to that point.
Meet Jeffrey Barrier. The Ohio man allegedly used a cell phone camera to snap photos of a naked woman at a tanning salon Saturday and then hid the phone in his anus in a bid to thwart police. [...]

This girl is a true mute donkey if she thinks that this lame defense will work.
Gianna Vigliotti, who was pulled over by police as she swerved in and out of her lane on Northern Boulevard in Manhasset Friday night, said that’s exactly what happened to her, according to court documents. 
After the 17-year-old from Glen Cove [...]

A couple of mute Donkeys put their baby up for sale:
 
A couple has been arrested in what Canadian police said on Tuesday was an apparent offer to sell a seven-day-old baby girl on Craigslist for C$10,000 ($10,100).
A woman who saw the offer on the popular website alerted police who tracked down the 23-year-old mother and [...]

It’s hard to believe this story, but this mute Donkey does indeed carry on sexual relationships with vehicles.
Edward Smith, who lives with his current “girlfriend” – a white Volkswagen Beetle named Vanilla, insisted that he was not “sick” and had no desire to change his ways.
“I appreciate beauty and I go a little bit beyond [...]

The latest mute donkey decided that it would be more important that his beer was safe rather than his own child.
Police said they were “shocked and appalled” when they pulled over the car south of Alice Springs in Australia’s Northern Territory.
They said the 30-can pack of beer was strapped down between two adults in the back, with the [...]