Naked man crashes through woman's ceiling
A Mississippi woman was awakened last week by a naked man crashing through her ceiling. Kaliegh Townsend says that when she jumped out of bed to investigate a loud noise, she found the nude male stranger “standing in the middle of my living room, and there’s a big gaping hole in my ceiling.” The man, identified by police as Patrick Williams, begged her for a pair of shorts, settled for her jacket, and then fled. Police said he’d entered the crawl space above Townsend’s apartment to evade a manhunt.
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How a gang of muggers saved a man's life
A British man’s life was saved by a gang of muggers who beat him up and slashed him with a knife. Iain Petrie, 33, was sent for a precautionary CT scan after the assault, whereupon doctors discovered he had a brain tumor. The tumor was removed in emergency surgery, and Petrie is expected to make a full recovery. “I can’t hate them,” said Petrie’s mother, Anne, of the attackers. “They did Iain a favor.”