Weird but true
Now that’s old school.
An 81-year-old Pittsford, NY, man has gotten his high-school diploma, 65 years after he dropped out to fight in World War II.
Siegfried “Ziggy” Weinthal was an immigrant who escaped Nazi Germany and then signed up to go back and fight Hitler at age 16.
He was given his diploma under a new program that grants them to veterans.
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An LA County employee died while working inside her cubicle last Friday — and no one bothered to notice for more than a day.
The 51-year-old worker, who had last been seen at 9 a.m. Friday, was found Saturday afternoon.
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Move over, Jamaica. Haiti is about to make a run into elite winter sports.
The impoverished, quake-devastated Caribbean nation has started its own ski team and is about to hit the slopes in international competition.
Their chances may not be great. Their only skier is 47-year-old grandfather Jean-Pierre Roy, who is also president of the Haiti Ski Federation.
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Even if you’re a fake cop, you still have to have your partner’s back.
Real officers in Orange County, Fla., busted a pair of imposters — who happen to be brothers — after one of them pulled over a motorist on a highway while driving a real-looking police car, complete with lights and sirens, authorities said.
As officers were arresting the first fake, the second drove up on the scene in his identical fake car to give his brother back-up, police said. He, too, was also nabbed.
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Never serve this teacher chicken tikka masala.
A British schoolteacher is in hot water for allegedly accusing a group of students, including Indians, of smelling of curry — and then spraying them with air freshener.
Elizabeth Davies, 50, was banned from teaching — and sentenced to eat nothing but naan bread and water. Well, not really.

