She was born with 4 eyes, 2 noses, 2 mouths, 2 ears, and 1 dimple on a shared cheek.

Similar to Lakshmi Tatma, a 2 year-old girl born with four arms and four legs, she is reverred as a reincarnated god by her local villagers, who sing and dance regularly for her.

“I had never seen something like this in my life so naturally I was a little scared when I first saw her,” her father was quoted as saying.

The young girl and her mother are both healthy and the family has no intentions of seeking surgery to correct the deformities.

“The doctor said everything is normal when she was born. So where’s the need to get medical help?” said the child’s father. “She’s fed through one mouth and sucks her thumb with the other. We use whichever mouth is free to feed her.”

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Sanjib Saha decided it would be best if he hired an impersonator to act as his wife during divorce procedures in the eastern city of Kolkata.

Both Sanjib and his fake wife said they sought a mutual divorce which the court granted.

Sanjib’s real wife found out later, when she was asked to leave their home.

She immediately appealed to a higher court charging her husband with cheating on her and faking their divorce. The court suspended the fake divorce leaving both Sanjib and his wife married once more.

“The case exposed the legal loopholes in our system,” Kaushik Chanda, lawyer of Saha’s real wife, said.

Sanjib Saha finds himself in a tough situation. If he now tries to get the divorce legally, the judge is likely to be very hard on him and rule in his wife’s favor. If he doesn’t get the divorce he has to live and stay with his wife, who he just tried to divorce with an impersonator.

I would definitely not want to be in Sanjib’s shoes…

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The time has come to coin a new term, Beijinged; An individual being coerced into employment through means of trickery and/or false promises in Beijing.

It’s enough to immediately drive most newcomers over the edge, straight back to the airport. A flourishing practice nurtured in numerous local English-language bulletin boards such as Craigslist. Just about every non-professional having come to Beijing looking for change has gotten vastly more change than they’d bargained for, and then some.

In its most common form, getting Beijinged means going straight from the airport to an English teaching job that was pre-arranged over the Internet. The eager new teachers are greeted by numerous smiles and “ni haos” at the vast modern airport, only to find themselves in a tiny moldy apartment an hour later, full of roaches to keep them company.

Even the “lucky” of such teachers may be faced with screaming hoards of Little Emperors, while the severely unlucky may be faced with classes of 100 or more stoned, half-drunken college students smoking cigarettes and spitting on the floors of their dilapidated classrooms.

One thing is certain, so let’s debunk any myths right here and now- Chinese students are no more well behaved than their Western counterparts. To the contrary.

So, after a traumatic bout of teaching that nearly ended in permanent mental illness, the new Beijinged resident may fly screaming from the country, not even able to watch the Olympics on TV without shaking.

The ones without the means to return home may unfurl political banners on Tiananmen Square in the hopes of being deported. But, a select few of the Beijinged residents will rent their own nasty little apartments and continue looking for work from the comfort of some smoke-clogged Internet café with sticky keyboards.

Then the real fun begins……

An acting job sounded nice, until you ended up in the middle of a cold forest all night long sleeping on the ground, waiting to perform 2 minutes of acting in exchange for barely 20 bucks. Then you answer an ad reading “Native English speaker needed to attend business meetings and take notes”. It seems you may have finally found something, with professional people in a nice office at a private finance company. Then your new employer asks you to go on a “business trip”.

The following week you end up over a thousand miles away, in a rural jungle village on the border of Myanmar. The instructions are to visit a massive hydroelectric construction project with your coworkers and claim that you are an international trade representative from Washington DC.

The builders of the project are applying for financing and it turns out that your company is charging them dearly to apply for it. But, your company doesn’t actually exist. The builders get suspicious and threaten to call the Chinese FBI.

Now back in Beijing and unemployed again, you’re nervous any time a stranger comes to the door of your nasty little apartment. A new opportunity arises. An American businessman is opening a new English school and needs a manager.

A nice new apartment is provided. A monkey lives in a little cage in the courtyard, but the school looks nice. Then the American demands to keep your passport, but you are going broke and this is your last chance. You agree and take the job. A series of serious incidents over the next few weeks leads you to believe that your boss may be in the mafia, but you don’t care at this point.

Then it’s all over one day when the boss accuses you of sleeping with a 17-year-old employee that he’s been known to make unsuccessful passes at. You have never touched the girl and decide it’s time to take your money and fly.

The passport is returned after lengthy coercion.

You’ve been Beijinged.

Zhou, a burglar from HuBei Province, China, proves through his recent crime that he has to be the dumbest criminal ever.

Zhou decided to break into a house in a nice neighborhood in HuBei. He was successful in taking about $65,000 in random jewels and cash. He also found two extremely large diamond rings in the house.

Zhou was sure that because of the size of the diamonds on the ring, they must be fake. He immediately flushed them down the toilet and left with his freshly stolen goods.

It wasn’t until after he was caught and police began questioning him about the real diamond jewelry that he realized the diamonds were real and he had thrown them away.

It took the police a little while to figure out what the burglars repeated “I’m so stupid” statement was all about.

No mention was made as to whether the two diamond rings where ever recovered.

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So what is causing this rapid decline in the Japanese population?

Some research has been released that blames sex toys and excessive masturbation for turning men off from sex.

Japan is well known as a hub for some strange sexual products, but it seems that these products may do more than simply help a man achieve his sexual desires with women – they may be replacing women altogether.

Scientists believe that the availability of these products which includes fetish pornography, unusual sex toys, lotions, creams, sex clubs, online relationships and “sex aids” are causing sexual dysfunction in Japanese men, including – but not limited to – failure to ejaculate or premature ejaculation.

These “Sex Aids” which include everything from robots of Japanese women to realistic moldings of female genitalia are providing these men with an alternative to standard sexual experiences, and many men are finding they prefer the “low stress” route, avoiding a relationship and finding an unconventional way to release their desires.

Japan is so worried about how the shrinking population may affect the workforce that they are considering relaxing immigration laws, providing extra money for child care and finding a way for Japanese parents to spend more time with their children.

Though if they really hope to solve the problem, they will probably find it more effective to encourage sex with Japanese women and more group orgies. But relaxing immigration laws work too.

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- Travis Stroup is a guest poster and author of a guide to meeting Asian women.