James Lubeck had long forgotten about his wallet falling into Marblehead Harbor in Massachusetts as he secured his sailboat during a storm in 1966.

That is, until this month, when a fisherman hauled in the wallet’s sheath – holding 12 credit cards in good condition -in a netful of cod, flounder and haddock some 25 miles away.

“I can’t find the adjectives,” said Lubeck, 74. “It is incredible. Life is full of mysteries.”

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The University of Iowa has found an unusual way to “emasculate” football teams taking on the Hawkeyes – it has painted the visiting locker room pink.

The paint job at Kinnick Stadium is like “Barbie’s Dream House on acid, a pastel nightmare. You feel naked without a little dog in one arm and a handbag in the other. Pink walls. Pink stalls. Pink seats. Pink ceiling. Pink carpet. Pink urinals,” said Des Moines Register columnist Sean Keeler.

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A hungry thief went to extremes to get a meal – bursting into a Nevada home at gunpoint and demanding that a terrified grandma feed him breakfast.

Luckily, the woman’s granddaughter was able to sneak away to a neighbors’ house and call Sparks police, who arrived to find Daniel Jeppsen, 30, hopped up on drugs and chowing down a bowl of cereal and milk.

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A Belgian female soccer team lost on a real sour note – being defeated 50-1 by a rival team when their goalkeeper skipped the game to attend a music concert.

“Right at the end, they allowed us to score. That was sweet of them,” quipped bitter substitute goalie Charlotte Jacobs of the SK Berlaar team.

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Bathers sunning themselves on the beach of a seaside resort in China fled in panic as a huge snapping crocodile crawled onto the shore and began searching for his supper.

Turns out the toothy beast had escaped a private wildlife park by crawling through a pipe that emptied into the sea near Silver Beach in Beihai.

Lifeguards managed to capture the creature, but fear more may have escaped.

Are you listening, Steven Spielberg?