
Weird but true
Everyone’s day includes some ups and downs — but this has to be a record.
Joe Frolick, whose hobby is jumping out of planes, did it 100 times last Friday near Lebanon, Ohio. The 34-year-old firefighter began his jump-a-thon at 7:30 a.m. and finished 13 hours later.
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Honey, I trashed the pot.
Authorities in Durant, Okla., responding to a call that “shrubs” were littering a road, found that the offending greenery was actually $500,000 worth of high-grade marijuana plants.
Officer Chuck Caroll believes the 236 plants — which had been grown indoors — were tossed after a domestic dispute.
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An uninvited visitor to an Australian home made his home in the toilet.
The 10-foot-long python “cruised around the house at night and returned to the toilet by day,” said Chris Peberdy, a “snake wrangler” who evicted the intruder from the house near Darwin and released it in the bush a mile and a half away.
Peberdy had some advice for area residents: “Look before you sit.”
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Meet Xiao Xingwa, the world’s youngest professional swimmer.
The 21-month-old girl, who was taught and trained by her grandparents in China’s Hebei province, has been swimming since she was just 4 months old.
“Xingwa loves the water and can do every kind of act,” said her proud granddad. Her first professional performance, set for tomorrow, is sold out. Post Wire Services


