Ten-year-old hands out drugged lollies to classmates
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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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