A Florida sunbather's brush with death
A sunbathing Florida woman woke up to find a 4,500-pound Chevrolet Silverado backing up over her head. Brittany Taltos, 23, was dozing in the sun when a friend backed his truck over the edge of her lawn. “I woke up with half a tire in my face,” Taltos said. “I thought I was going to die.” The soft ground saved her life, but her head was pushed so far down into it that it left a small crater.
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An Oregon man decided to sleep off a night of heavy drinking by crawling into a dumpster—and was still asleep when the dumpster was emptied into a garbage truck. Justin Gilpatrick, 27, woke and began screaming when the truck started to compact the load of trash inside. Hearing the screams, the truck driver turned off the compactor just in time. “I have not had a drink in years, and the one time I do, this is what happens,” Gilpatrick said. “I will never drink again.”
Fisherman finds a severed finger
The severed finger of a Washington state man was found in the belly of a fish. Police used its fingerprint to track it back to Haans Galassi, 31, who lost four fingers from his left hand months earlier in a wakeboarding accident. When police called and mentioned the lake, Galassi said, “Let me guess. They found my fingers in a fish.” Asked if he wanted the finger back so it could be reattached, Galassi declined. “Uhhh, I’m good,” he said.
Love your wife's cooking!
A Russian man spent a month starving in a forest after fighting with his wife about a bowl of soup. Yuri Ticuic, 69, stormed out of his home in a remote region after his wife served him soup he felt was not hot enough. Ticuic became lost in the woods, and survived for a month on berries and leaves until he was finally found, suffering from malnutrition and frostbite. “No matter what happens,” he said, “that’s the last time I criticize my wife’s cooking.”
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Iran suspends two soccer players, and morefeature Iranian officials have fined and indefinitely suspended a pair of pro soccer players for immoral behavior after one patted the other’s buttocks during a goal celebration.
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A three-second record, and more
feature A British soccer player has set a new world record by being ejected from a game after only three seconds.