Teenagers snort ashes by mistake, and more

Teenagers snort ashes by mistake

Three teenagers broke into a Florida home and snorted the cremated remains of the owner’s father and two dogs. Police said the teens confessed to having both snorted and tasted the remains because they “mistook the ashes for either heroin or cocaine.” They found out the truth when they read a newspaper story about the burglary. “We didn’t know they were ashes,” one of the suspects, David Diaz, 19, later told reporters.

Rod Stewart's new hobby

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Rod Stewart has become obsessed with model trains. The 66-year-old singer, who spent decades as a hard-drinking womanizer, now spends four hours a day playing with the 1,500-square-foot model railway system on the third floor of his Beverly Hills home. When he tours, Stewart demands that a large table be placed in his dressing room so that he can set up a scale model between performances. Sometimes, he admits, he finds himself “focusing so intently on a model that it ceases to be fun.”

A novel way to clear snow from the driveway

A Massachusetts man faces criminal charges after using explosives to clear snow from driveways. Leo Powers, 23, was turned in by his girlfriend’s mother, Karen Litif, after Powers used a pile of gunpowder to blast her driveway clear of snow. “He was like, ‘Stand back from the windows,’” said Litif. “I was like, ‘Are you kidding me?’” Searching the suspect’s home, police found more gunpowder, a shotgun, and a pistol, but Powers says the authorities are over­reacting. “It’s not like I had a tank round or anything.”