Two babies born at Burger King on consecutive days
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Staff at a Burger King have reported the birth of two baby boys in the restaurant’s car park on consecutive days. Both sets of parents were making their way to a local hospital as they passed the outlet, in Denville, New Jersey. Traffic delays forced the first car-park birth, while the second was blamed on a “rapid delivery”.
Buried alcohol beats festival security
A man has revealed how he smuggled alcohol into a music festival by burying a bottle of vodka at the site of the event three weeks before it began. Alex Diamond says he marked the location of the vodka using Google Maps, and successfully located the bottle once the Electric Zoo festival, in New York, was under way.
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Man cuts off finger tips to frame ex-boyfriend
A jilted lover reportedly cut the tips off three of his fingers in a bid to frame his ex-boyfriend. Police say 21-year-old Damon Laru, from Wisconsin, broke into his former partner’s house, attempted to set fire to the bed and slashed his ex with a knife, before cutting himself.
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