WEIRD BUT TRUE
And you thought you were having a bad day.
A Rock Island, Tenn., man saw his house catch fire minutes after he got into a car crash – then he was given a traffic ticket.
Justin Hill was turning into his driveway when he hit an oncoming car.
His wife heard the crash and ran outside to see what happened – but forgot to turn the stove off, starting a fire that caused extensive damage.
After Hill was released from the hospital, he was slapped with a ticket for failing to yield.
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She deserves that “A” now.
A woman in Elwood, Ind., donated one of her kidneys to her former high-school English teacher 22 years after she graduated.
Angie Collins was a student of Darren Paquin’s, and when she heard that he was having kidney failure, she felt compelled to help.
The surgery was a success, and Collins is scheduled to be released from the hospital today.
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A 78-year-old legally blind man in Alta, Iowa, bowled a perfect game.
Dale “The Hammer” Davis threw 12 consecutive strikes during a league game to achieve every bowler’s dream.
Davis can’t see out of his left eye and has limited vision out of his right.
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Three pythons created a scare at a German post office.
Police in Darmstadt say the snakes, more than three feet long, were in a package to be mailed to another town in Germany.
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A man in England spent 18 hours in jail for dropping an apple core.
Keith Hirst had just stepped out of the post office when a police officer approached him and accused him of littering.
Hirst denied the offense and went to run another errand.
When he left a pharmacy, he was surrounded by five uniformed cops, who took him away.

