Pile of trash foils suicide attempt, and more

Pile of trash foils suicide attempt

A New York City man who tried to kill himself by jumping from a ninth-story window landed, alive, in a pile of uncollected garbage bags. Vangelis Kapatos, 26, landed on his back in the garbage bags—which were piled much higher than usual after a snowstorm interrupted garbage collection—and was taken to the hospital for surgery. “Maybe it was lucky we had this snow,” says Katharina, Kapatos’ aunt.

Inside the Playboy Mansion

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Life inside Hugh Hefner’s Playboy Mansion is far from glamorous, writes former Playmate Izabella St. James in a new tell-all book. The mansion’s many mattresses are “old, worn, and stained,” says St. James. She says the carpets are even worse, thanks to the large number of dogs on the premises, particularly “Archie, the house dog,” who would “relieve himself on the hallway curtains, adding a powerful whiff of urine to the general scent of decay.”

Out-of-control camel gets tasered

Mississippi police say they had no choice but to Taser an out-of-control camel. Deputy Ed Merwin says officers were summoned after the animal strayed from an exotic-animal sanctuary and attacked a woman’s car. As he cautiously approached the camel, says Merwin, “the animal was not complying with my commands. At this time the animal was Tasered once,” whereupon it ran away. Police said they were told the camel is usually quite gentle and are investigating to find out “what got him fired up.’’