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a surprise when they broke into the basement of an apartment building looking for tools to steal… and found eight severed human heads. Police said a dentist who lived in the building was using the heads for “research,” but they were looking into whether or not he had broken any laws. The thieves apparently ran away without stealing anything after they saw the heads.
CRASH, LITTLE BABY…
In 2006 a 17-year-old girl from Pleasanton, California, was driving home from the store with a doll she had just bought for a parenting class at her high school. The doll suddenly let out a loud—and apparently very realistic—baby cry, which so startled the girl that she drove into a pickup truck. The girl, who was uninjured, was charged with speeding and driving without a license. The doll, according to news reports, had cried out because it had “wet itself.”
HE’S IN HOT WATER
One night in April 2005, family members in a home in Nara, Japan, were awakened by some strange noises coming from the bathroom. They investigated…and discovered a young man relaxing in their bathtub. He was drunk. And he was a policeman. The 21-year-old off-duty cop had walked into the wrong house (his was 50 yards away) after a party. Arrested and charged with unlawful entry, he told reporters, “I can’t believe it wasn’t my bathtub.”
The Loch Ness monster is protected by the 1912 Protection of Animals Acts of Scotland.
BURNING IRONY
In April 2005, firefighters in Providence, Rhode Island, were on their way to a fire when the fire truck caught on fire. The fire started in the engine compartment, made its way through the firewall, and quickly entered the cab. Firefighters tried to put the fire out with fire extinguishers, but finally had to call another fire truck to help put the fire out. By the time help arrived, Engine 11 was completely burned. “This,” said Captain Peter Celini, “is unusual.”
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RESCUED BY…
…SUPERMEN. In July 2006, the grandmother of one-year-old Jennifer Romero was pushing her granddaughter in a stroller, returning home from a grocery store in Oakland Park, Florida, when both were hit by a Ford van. Witnesses quickly realized that the baby was in trouble: She was still in her stroller—underneath the van, which had dragged her more than 80 yards. “We stopped traffic and got every big guy we could see,” said Wayne Ackerman, a bystander who stepped in to help. Six men then worked together to lift the front of the van off the ground, allowing the child to be pulled out from under it. Amazingly, the baby was uninjured; her grandmother suffered minor fractures.
…COINCIDENCE. In June 2006, Barry Glinton and three friends were about a mile off the coast of Florida near West Palm Beach when a large wave crested their powerboat and it started taking on water. Glinton called the Coast Guard on his cell phone—he didn’t have a GPS system—and rescuers were able to locate him visually within an hour only because it was a clear day. On the way back to land, Coast Guard Lt. John Reed commented that he had rescued a boater in a similar situation in the very same spot a year earlier. Glinton said, “That was me.” The officer didn’t find the coincidence funny. “This gentleman got very lucky twice,” Officer Alber said, “but it doesn’t look like he learned his lesson about boating safety.”
You can make edible cheese from the milk of 24 different mammals.
SUPER POWERS
People with unusual abilities have been reported and described throughout history. Are they real? Who knows?
• Rosa Kuleshova grew up sighted in a family of blind people in the Soviet Union in the 1960s. She wanted to know what it was like to be blind, so she started wearing a blindfold and eventually taught herself to “see” with her fingers. According to Kuleshova, she could actually “feel” colors: yellow is slippery, violet makes the fingers stop moving, and red is sticky. Because she could
CRASH, LITTLE BABY…
In 2006 a 17-year-old girl from Pleasanton, California, was driving home from the store with a doll she had just bought for a parenting class at her high school. The doll suddenly let out a loud—and apparently very realistic—baby cry, which so startled the girl that she drove into a pickup truck. The girl, who was uninjured, was charged with speeding and driving without a license. The doll, according to news reports, had cried out because it had “wet itself.”
HE’S IN HOT WATER
One night in April 2005, family members in a home in Nara, Japan, were awakened by some strange noises coming from the bathroom. They investigated…and discovered a young man relaxing in their bathtub. He was drunk. And he was a policeman. The 21-year-old off-duty cop had walked into the wrong house (his was 50 yards away) after a party. Arrested and charged with unlawful entry, he told reporters, “I can’t believe it wasn’t my bathtub.”
The Loch Ness monster is protected by the 1912 Protection of Animals Acts of Scotland.
BURNING IRONY
In April 2005, firefighters in Providence, Rhode Island, were on their way to a fire when the fire truck caught on fire. The fire started in the engine compartment, made its way through the firewall, and quickly entered the cab. Firefighters tried to put the fire out with fire extinguishers, but finally had to call another fire truck to help put the fire out. By the time help arrived, Engine 11 was completely burned. “This,” said Captain Peter Celini, “is unusual.”
* * *
RESCUED BY…
…SUPERMEN. In July 2006, the grandmother of one-year-old Jennifer Romero was pushing her granddaughter in a stroller, returning home from a grocery store in Oakland Park, Florida, when both were hit by a Ford van. Witnesses quickly realized that the baby was in trouble: She was still in her stroller—underneath the van, which had dragged her more than 80 yards. “We stopped traffic and got every big guy we could see,” said Wayne Ackerman, a bystander who stepped in to help. Six men then worked together to lift the front of the van off the ground, allowing the child to be pulled out from under it. Amazingly, the baby was uninjured; her grandmother suffered minor fractures.
…COINCIDENCE. In June 2006, Barry Glinton and three friends were about a mile off the coast of Florida near West Palm Beach when a large wave crested their powerboat and it started taking on water. Glinton called the Coast Guard on his cell phone—he didn’t have a GPS system—and rescuers were able to locate him visually within an hour only because it was a clear day. On the way back to land, Coast Guard Lt. John Reed commented that he had rescued a boater in a similar situation in the very same spot a year earlier. Glinton said, “That was me.” The officer didn’t find the coincidence funny. “This gentleman got very lucky twice,” Officer Alber said, “but it doesn’t look like he learned his lesson about boating safety.”
You can make edible cheese from the milk of 24 different mammals.
SUPER POWERS
People with unusual abilities have been reported and described throughout history. Are they real? Who knows?
• Rosa Kuleshova grew up sighted in a family of blind people in the Soviet Union in the 1960s. She wanted to know what it was like to be blind, so she started wearing a blindfold and eventually taught herself to “see” with her fingers. According to Kuleshova, she could actually “feel” colors: yellow is slippery, violet makes the fingers stop moving, and red is sticky. Because she could
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