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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A Chicago man shot a nail into his brain without realizing it. When his nail gun discharged accidentally, says Dante Autullo, 32, he felt an impact “like I got punched on the side of the head,” but thought the nail “went past my ear.” The next day, however, he felt disoriented and nauseous and went to the emergency room, where X-rays revealed a 3.25-inch nail in his brain. “When they brought the picture, I said to the doctor, ‘Is this a joke? Did you get that out of the doctors’ joke file?’” Autullo said. “The doctor said, ‘No, man, that’s in your head.’” Surgeons subsequently removed the nail.
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.”
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Too drunk to get married, and morefeature An Australian groom showed up so drunk for his wedding that a minister refused to perform the ceremony.
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Romanian swallows a metal fork, and more
feature A Romanian man went to the emergency room complaining of intense chest pain.
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Suicidal man helps save a stranger, and more
feature A suicidal man who was threatening to jump off London Bridge helped save the life of a complete stranger drowning in the waters below.
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Morticians discover live man in body bag, and more
feature Workers at a Mississippi funeral home got a shock when a corpse started moving inside his body bag.
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How to shake a vending machine, and more
feature An Iowa man was fired from his warehouse job after he allegedly used a forklift to pick up a vending machine and shake loose a stuck candy bar.
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Young boy goes joyriding, and more
feature A 10-year-old Norwegian boy took his parents’ car for a joyride, then told police that he was a dwarf who had forgotten his driver’s license.
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Taking aim at Kroger's, and more
feature A Kentucky woman allegedly bought a car just so she could ram it into a supermarket that she hates.
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A name like no other, and more
feature Britain’s most heavily tattooed man has been refused a passport because of his unusual name.