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
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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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