Firefighters rescue a tiger
Houston firefighters who responded to reports of an escaped tiger on top of an abandoned hotel were relieved to find that it was an extremely realistic, life-size stuffed animal. Firefighters used a cherry picker to approach the beast, and were able to determine, first by visual inspection and then by tapping it on the head without provoking any snarling, that it posed no threat to themselves or to the public.
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Drunk man drives SUV into a subway tunnel
The San Francisco subway was shut down for two hours last week when a man drove his SUV into a tunnel. Police say that Scott Mitchell, 40, was drunk when he followed a train into the Muni Metro tunnel, swerved around it when it stopped, and eluded subway employees who chased his SUV on foot. Driving on the tracks, Mitchell went nearly a half mile in the narrow tunnel before hitting a concrete stair and coming to an abrupt halt. “Good times on the Muni,” said one passenger who witnessed the drama. “The whole thing was very surreal.”