This is True is a weekly newspaper column by Colorado humorist Randy Cassingham that reports on bizarre-but-TRUE stories in the mainstream press. It is also available by free e-mail subscription.

A hot-headed Moscow woman set her ex-husband's penis on fire after becoming enraged that he was sitting around their apartment naked, ... "It was monstrously painful," said the man. ... Yoshihiro Tanjo, 54,

Clean up on Aisle 7! ... Workers at a Wal-Mart in Wisconsin used shopping carts to corral an emu running around the store's parking lot after escaping from a nearby farm. ... A manager then fed the large,

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