Woman accidentally shot while sitting in bathroom stall, and more

Woman accidentally shot while sitting in bathroom stall

A Florida woman was accidentally shot while sitting in a bathroom stall. Janifer Bliss, 54, was using the restroom at a Tampa hotel when the woman in the adjoining stall, Debra Monce, 56, began pulling down her pants and dropped her handgun, which discharged and shot Bliss through the thigh. Police spokeswoman Andrea Davis said that while Monce was licensed to carry the gun, she may still face charges for carrying it in “an open holster with no snaps or clips to hold the gun in place.”

Octomom Nadya Suleman hears child's ghost

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Nadya Suleman, the unmarried mother of 14 who famously gave birth to octuplets last year, says she now has one more child living at her house—a child’s ghost. In an interview with RadarOnline, Suleman, 33, says that one room in her crowded California house stays unusually cold year-round and that while inside it recently she heard a tiny voice whisper, “Mommy.” “That really did scare me,” said Suleman. “This is something you are not supposed to believe in if you are a believer in God.”

Mother claims hotel pool made her daughter pregnant

A Polish woman is suing an Egyptian hotel, claiming that its swimming pool made her teenage daughter pregnant. The suit, filed in Warsaw by Magdalena Kwiatkowska, says that stray sperm in the pool must have impregnated her 13-year-old daughter while the family was there on vacation. “The mother is adamant that her daughter didn’t meet any boys while she was there,” said a Polish travel industry official.