A late night dip in the Changjiang River in Chongqing, China resulted in a harrowing experience for painter/decorator, Xiao Chen, aged 25, who was too embarrassed to cry out for help after he became stuck in river silt.
Trapped for eleven hours, he did not call for help even though he had a working mobile phone. He was rescued only after two fishermen spotted him struggling in the river and notified authorities who launched rescue operations.
A 27-year-old Crestview man, who goes by the nickname of “Juice Man,” was the passenger in a car that drove by a Crestview police officer working a traffic stop.
“[Expletive] you,” the man yelled out the window, which caused the officer to shine his light into the car and note that neither the driver nor the passenger were wearing a seat belt, reports the Northwest Florida Daily News.
When the officer pulled the car over, he noticed that Juice Man had an open container of beer on his lap — and several other bottles on the seat and floor around him, according to the arrest report.
While some people may claim to have been saved by the bell, six-year-old Ming Ming has another tale to tell. The little boy slipped through the window bars of his home and ended up dangling by his ears eight stories above the ground!
It happened in Jucheng Compound, Yichang in Hubei Province, China, in a block of housing flats after his grandfather left him sleeping to go on an errand.
CITY animal control officers have started removing hundreds of large, feral rats from inside a rental home in New Mexico.
Animal shelter director Beth Vesco-Mock said the rats – some sickly displaying evidence of fighting – are about the size of a four- to five-month-old kitten. “They’re much larger than I had anticipated Animal control officers had taken two skinny dogs and about 170 rats to the shelter by mid-yesterday, and officers estimated there were at least that many rats still hiding in the Las Cruces home.
A BRAZEN prankster claimed he was raped by a whale and gave his name as Ben Dover during one of many hoax calls to the emergency services.
Daniel Hammond made nuisance calls for eight months, telling busy emergency operators he lived in Doctor Who’s TARDIS.
On one occasion, he reported that his manhood fell off because he smoked too much weed and was struggling to have sex.
Marie Boswell, 35, says friends and family have been amazed by her son’s distinctive ‘ok’ sign in the 20-week scan taken at Wythenshawe Hospital.
LA PLATA, Md. (AP) – The Charles County sheriff’s office said a man called 911 and made up a story about being robbed so that he could get a ride home.
A man has been arrested in China for allegedly posing as a woman in order to marry men for their money. 18-year-old Wang Mou had reportedly married three men already this year.
The Dahe Daily reported that after getting married, Wang subsequently fled with the engagement money.
No wonder he looks like the world’s most miserable fish… this unattractive creature, the inedible blobfish, is in danger of being wiped out.
These sad-looking creatures, which grow up to lengths of 12 inches, live at depths of 900m.
They spend most of their time gently floating around waiting for food to pass in front of them, which sounds like quite a nice life to us!
Eighty six-year old veteran Ivan Nikulin from Chita is lively and full of energy.
He goes to get groceries by himself, cleans his house and gets the table ready for guests who come for a visit on his biggest holiday, Victory Day.
On this day he usually remembers his bitter story. Sixty six years ago a fascists’ bullet that nearly took his life got stuck in his head.
