Ten-year-old hands out drugged lollies to classmates

A ten-year-old student reportedly mistook her parents’ medical marijuana edibles for lollies, and took them to school to share with her classmates. A teacher at the school in Albuquerque, New Mexico, called paramedics when she noticed the children were “beginning to act strangely”, with one girl complaining that she was “unable to see”.

Dead woman gives birth in coffin

Staff at a funeral parlour were reportedly stunned when a heavily pregnant woman who had been dead for ten days apparently gave birth inside the coffin. The owner of the funeral parlour in Mbizana, South Africa, said the infant, which was stillborn, was buried with its mother the following day.

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Man has house declared a ship to beat zoning laws

A Latvian man has had his seaside house declared as an ocean-going vessel, in order to circumvent zoning laws preventing people from building homes too close to the beach. Court documents show that the home has been designed in such a way that it would theoretically be able to float.