A man rode his mule 1,500 miles in search of gainful employment – all for nothing.

Hearing that they were hiring in Wyoming, Rod Maday – whose driver’s license was suspended 10 years ago – mounted his mule in Minnesota and made the trip over six weeks.

When he arrived in Gillette, Wyo., there were jobs available, but none that suited him – so he got right back on his mule and rode off.

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A Kentucky man says he hit the jackpotty – when he sat at a slot machine where a previous gambler had urinated.

Floyd Kibiloski, 60, filed a complaint with the Indiana Gaming Commission, accusing a woman who had been playing at the machine minutes earlier of wetting the seat.

Kibiloski said that after his pants got soaked by the chair at the Caesars Indiana casino, he was given no help in finding a place to clean up and had to walk to his car to change into a pair of sweat pants.

Caesars spokeswoman Judy Hess acknowledged the incident, and said the casino “dropped the ball.”

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A “Frisbee” that two vacationing Swiss students found on a beach in Hungary turned out to be a live Soviet land mine.

Lukas Aider, 20, and Christoph Kurz, 19, found the mine and started tossing it back and forth, while taking a dip in the Danube River in Budapest.

A lifeguard stopped them and immediately called the police. The bomb squad arrived and disarmed the “Frisbee.”

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A Chinese man didn’t realize he had a “glass” eye.

Xiao Zhu, 22, lived with a shard of glass hidden under his right eye for six years, since being hit with a beer bottle during a bar fight.

When his eye became inflamed last month, surgeons discovered and removed the piece of glass, which Xiao is keeping as a souvenir.

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The perfectly preserved, frozen body of an Indian soldier was returned to his family 40 years after he was killed in a plane crash in the Himalayas.

Soldiers discovered the frozen bodies of Mahendranath Phukan and two other victims buried in snow on a glacier at an altitude of 17,500 feet.