Lost in the apple trees, and more

Lost in the apple trees

A Massachusetts couple called 911 after getting lost while picking apples in an orchard. Mark and Marcia Rosenthal of Boston were unable to find their car after the sun went down over the 200-acre Honey Pot Orchard in Stow, and say they had no choice but to contact emergency services. After police called the orchard owners, they drove out in a buggy to pick up the couple. Orchard owner Julie Martin-Sullivan said Mark Rosenthal asked her brother, “‘So how many rescues a year?’ And my brother replied, ‘Well, through 85 years of business, none.’”

Mr. Moyo's shape-shifting human prostitute

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A Zimbabwean man arrested for having sex with a donkey told the court the animal was a shape-shifting human prostitute. Sunday Moyo, 28, claims he paid $20 to a woman he met in a nightclub, and that at some point after leaving the club she must have transformed herself into a donkey and tied herself to a tree. “Your worship,” Moyo told the judge, “I only came to know that I was being intimate with a donkey when I got arrested.”

Carded at age 92

A 92-year-old great-grandmother was refused service in a British liquor store because she didn’t have a photo ID. Diane Taylor says she initially “thought the cashier was complimenting me” when he refused to sell her a bottle of whiskey without proof she was at least 18. The cashier was adamant, however, and Taylor left empty-handed. “No one can convince me I look under 25,” says Taylor. “I’d only take 78 at a push.”