Weird but true
This may be the first time an AK-47 saved a life.
After a 45-year-old man was shot in the chest with a slug from the high-powered assault weapon at an Orlando, Fla., motel, doctors patching up his wound found a tumor in his lung.
The man, who was shot during a “24-hour party” with hookers, said he wants to use his second chance to turn his life around.
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Forget “To protect and serve.” The new motto for cops in Seattle is “To add insult to injury.”
Officers are in hot water after being caught on tape mocking a man as he lay unconscious after being hit by a truck while jogging.
“Don’t jog to work, you dumb f–k” one cop said. Another added, “That’s why you drive a car.”
The man wants an apology.
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An 80-year-old Florida granny fought off a gun-wielding thug — by using her aluminum walker.
Josefa Lopez went on the attack when she saw the man pistol-whipping her 61-year-old daughter in their driveway.
“I thought she was dead,” Lopez said. “I yelled, ‘I am going to kill you, son of a bitch!”
She then hit he man, who ran away and is still at large.
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An Illinois town is ditching Christmas this year in order to celebrate the season the “Seinfeld” way.
The district of Rock Island is decorating for “Festivus,” a fictional holiday that was created for the 1990s sitcom.
The highlights will include an aluminum Festivus pole in the middle of town and a public airing of grievances.
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What’s worse than having to pretend to like the horrible, fluorescent-pink scarf Grandma knitted you? Hearing her say she’s going to make hundreds more for the kids in your class.
Audrey Ledyard has hand-crocheted 332 scarves for each student in her grandson’s elementary school in White Pigeon, Mich.
Her grandson had better watch his back in the playground.

