A funeral in Germany "ended on a high" when guests accidentally ate a cake laced with cannabis. The mourners unwittingly ate a cake left in the fridge by a woman’s 18-year-old daughter. The teenager is now under police investigation.
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Man arrested after joy-riding construction vehicle
A 46-year-old Kansas man was arrested after allegedly taking a joy ride on a stolen construction excavator. Shane Funk was caught riding the machinery through the Oakland neighborhood of Topeka early on Sunday morning. Officers shot him with non-lethal bean bag pellets to capture him.
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