Weird but true
A Boston transit worker saved the life of a stuffed bunny that fell to the tracks on a subway line.
When her young daughter’s favorite toy seemed to have only seconds to live, Casey Carey-Brown ran up to the worker, who radioed the approaching train.
It stopped a whisker away.
The mom blogged her thanks: “You really didn’t have to do what you did . . . But you made a little 3-year-old incredibly happy.’’
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He’ll probably serve time for this.
A man suspected of stealing merchandise from a Panama City, Fla., store was brought into the local police station — where he unscrewed a clock from the interview room and tried to hide it in his backpack.
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A Canadian man learned it’s dangerous for a person to do what bears are famous for doing in the woods.
Gord Shurvell was in an outhouse behind his rural cabin near Winnipeg when a bear strode through the open door and started dragging him off.
He was saved by a friend who fired a rifle at the bear, scaring him off.
From now on, “I’ll probably put up with the stench and shut the door,’’ he said.
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Maybe this Brazilian guy felt guilty for giving his girlfriend a boring night in bed.
He held up a sex shop in Brasilia, walking out with a $4,000, gold-plated vibrator.
The clerk, noting the crook forgot the charger, said, “I really don’t know what he’ll do. I’ll leave it to his imagination.’’
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If there’s a heaven for cats, he’ll be able to fly there.
When a cat named Orville was hit by a car, his owner, a Dutch artist, decided to immortalize him — by stuffing his corpse, strapping it to a radio-controlled toy helicopter and exhibiting it in a gallery.
Bart Jansen, pointing out the feline had been named after the Wright brother, said on his Web site, “Soon to be flying with the birds.
“Oh, how he loved birds.’’

