
WEIRD BUT TRUE
A bald eagle crashed through a window of a home in Alaska, dropped a salmon in the living room and flew back out.
“There were feathers about eight feet into the room . . . [and] this huge fish carcass right where my dog usually sleeps,” said homeowner Jean Stack of Ketchikan.
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A 17-year-old Kansas schoolboy was busted for battery – after he vomited on his teacher.
Prosecutors say the arrest at Olathe Northwest HS sends a message that such behavior won’t be tolerated.
But the barfing student’s dad insists his son got sick unintentionally due to the stress of final exams.
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It won’t be death that parts them, so Dixie Fisher is trying to sell the steel casket her soon-to-be ex-husband planned to use when he dies.
A classified ad she placed in Ohio’s Columbus Dispatch newspaper reads: “Marriage died before husband did.”
She says that at $980, the casket is a good deal because “there wasn’t anybody in it, and it looked like it had never been used.”
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An Italian woman whose inability to walk puzzled her doctors for 20 years researched her illness on the Internet and found the cure.
Stefania Vanoni of Baceno used medical Web sites to identify the symptoms that had left her crippled as a nerve condition called Ataxia that can be controlled by medication. She’s now walking again.
“I wasn’t particularly looking to cure myself on the Internet, but was reading up on the subject and suddenly realized the symptoms they were talking about referred to me. I instantly demanded a DNA,” said Vanoni, who now plans to go hiking in Peru.
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A smuggler who tied rare snakes to his legs was busted as he landed at the Prague airport in the Czech Republic from Africa after customs officials spotted a wriggling in his pants.
But that was just the beginning. When they opened the 23-year-old suspect’s luggage, an army of live scorpions and beetles came crawling out.


