I'd take this with a grain of salt.
It's one of those stories that used to appear in The Other Side on news.com.au -- now known as WTF (Weird, True, Freaky).
It is featured in the OddBall section on Bigpond, and in the Weird news section on the Daily Telegraph UK as well as on a couple of other humour-related sites.
There are a lot of gullible people out there who read these "news" articles and take them for gospel.
Regards,
Humayun