WEIRD BUT TRUE
A mutt whose front legs never developed properly has learned to walk upright like a human.
Laura Stringfellow of Oklahoma City, who adopted Faith when she was a three-week-old puppy, said, “We taught her to stand up in the snow. When she did, her legs got stronger and she just ran across and started walking.”
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An Illinois jurist has been dubbed “Judge Rambo” after heroically vaulting over the bench to tackle an accused robber who went berserk.
Judge John Kirby was able to hold on to suspect George Bonney until Cook County cops restored order – but not before Bonney put Assistant Public Defender Richard Kruss in the hospital with a fractured skull and broke a female deputy’s finger, authorities said.
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Two weeks after people began flocking to Milton Hospital in Massachusetts to stare at moisture in a window they say looks like the Virgin Mary, some say they see another holy image on the chimney.
Some see a cross, others say it’s a second illustration of the Madonna.
“It’s another sign . . . there is hope for all of us, with all that is going on in the world,” Soraya Rentas told The Boston Globe.
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A Florida woman who heard noises coming from her Camaro opened the hood to discover an 8-foot boa constrictor inside.
“I was screaming and running. His head was as big as my hand,” said Susan Perry of Tampa. “I’ve seen some weird stuff, but not like that.”
Cops collared the reptile, but have no idea how it slithered into the car.
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If you have to go to the bathroom, there may be no better place than the Norfolk, Va., home of Toni Cacace-Beshears – who collects toilet paper.
Toni has saved hundreds of pieces of tissue from the rest rooms she’s visited around the world, including one of her favorites, a swatch from the ladies room at the Vatican.
And she’s mounted them in three scrapbooks.
“I guess I am silly. It’s not quite normal,” she admitted.


