September 3, 2010 – 2:47 am
What do you do when you’re in need of some towels and comfort? Call 911, of course!
That’s exactly what a homeless man near Portland, OR did when he called the emergency line on his cell phone, saying he’s the sheriff and has been in a hot tub for 10 hours. He asks for [...]
September 1, 2010 – 4:17 am
A deer is fed a bottle of beer at a resort in Weihai, northern China’s Shandong province.
According to Zhang Xiangxi, who works as a waitress at the resort’s restaurant, she discovered the deer’s unusual tastes last November when she was cleaning up after some customers.
She says: “I saw a bottle of beer was [...]
August 30, 2010 – 2:06 pm
The leisurely activity of mushroom-hunting has claimed the lives of at least 19 people in Italy over the last 10 days.
Among the the victims? An 88-year-old woman found dead in a ravine.
According to La Repubblica, most of the 19 died by sliding down slopes, or tumbling over rocks in the northern mountains.
Noting that [...]
August 24, 2010 – 11:27 pm
It may have been five or six years ago..he may have been pretty drunk, but the 35-year-old construction worker in western Germany dimly recalled something hitting him in the back of the head.
Not one to visit the doctor, the man finally went to have them remove what he thought was a cyst. [...]
August 23, 2010 – 7:26 pm
A 60-mile traffic jam on one of China’s major national freeways is now entering its 9th day.
Residents along the Beijing-Tibet Freeway are cashing in by gouging stranded drivers, with noodles going for four times the normal price.
It all began August 14 when thousands of Beijing-bound trucks got jammed up because of construction on a nearby [...]
August 18, 2010 – 1:28 pm
A sheriff’s deputy in North Carolina was trapped in his squad car for three hours yesterday (August 17) as a swarm of honeybees blanketed the vehicle.
Wake County sheriff’s deputy Brandon Jenkins had answered a report in the middle of the night of a disabled truck near Knightdale, N.C., that was pulling a trailer of honeybee [...]