‘Drunk’ racoons stumbling around Canadian neighbourhood
And other stories from stranger side of life
Fermented fruit has been blamed after apparently drunken raccoons have been spotted stumbling around a Canadian neighborhood. Residents of Stittsville, a suburb of Ottawa, Ontario, have spotted the raccoons staggering around and then “sleeping off” the effects of the fruit, which seems to have put them under the influence.
Woman laughs so hard she dislocates jaw
A woman in China laughed so hard that she dislocated her jaw, leaving her mouth stuck open. Doctors treated the woman after the incident on a high-speed train bound for the capital of Guangdong Province in South China. They were able to restore the jaw, which the woman says had become dislocated in the past due to repeated vomiting during pregnancy.
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Cambridgeshire man sees UFO ‘bigger than a truck’
A man in Cambridgeshire says a UFO “bigger than a truck” fell from the sky on his way to work. Spencer Jackson claims that as he was driving along the A142 early on Sunday morning a bright silver spacecraft suddenly emerged. He admits that not everyone believes him, adding: “My wife has been laughing at me, but I'm not mad.”
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