Man discovers wife’s affair on Google Maps
And other stories from the stranger side of life
A man found out that his wife was having an affair after catching her in the act on Google Maps. An image on the web mapping service shows a row of benches on a path in Lima, the capital of Peru, with a woman wearing a black top and white shirt and a man in a white jumper with his head laid in her lap. After the husband confronted his wife about the image the couple divorced.
Crash at roundabout before opening ceremony
A £2.3m roundabout has been forced to close after a car crashed into it the day before its opening ceremony. A driver collided with a beacon next to one of the roundabout’s zebra crossings. Cambridgeshire Council insists the roundabout’s Dutch-style design played no part in the crash but the RAC said it “may well be an unusual junction to navigate in the first instance”.
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Man wins lottery while waiting for mother
An American man who was waiting for his mother to finish her shopping at a grocery store won a $200,000 scratch-card lottery jackpot. Herbert Scruggs said he passed the time while waiting for his mother at the Food Lion store in Virginia by purchasing a Winning Hand scratch-off lottery ticket. “It feels sort of surreal,” he said of his win. “It still hasn't hit me yet.”
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