Is the world getting crazier or what?! Here are a few strange but true tales gleaned from recent current events:
REVENGE OF THE MOUSE
FORT
SUMNER, N.M. - A mouse got its revenge against a homeowner who tried to
dispose of it in a pile of burning leaves. The blazing creature ran
back to the man's house and set it on fire.
Luciano Mares, 81, of Fort Sumner said he caught the mouse inside his
house and wanted to get rid of it.
"I had some leaves burning outside, so I threw it in the fire, and the
mouse was on fire and ran back at the house," Mares said from a motel
room Saturday.
Village Fire Chief Juan Chavez said the burning mouse ran to just
beneath a window, and the flames spread up from there and throughout
the house.
(Well, later there was a
story that said the mouse was dead when the man threw it on the fire;
if so, that just spoils the tale!)
GOLDILOCKS WAS A BOAR
Berlin - Reuters) - A wild boar was found taking a nap in the guest bedroom in a Bavarian family's house
after fleeing from hunters, police said Monday.
"The sow panicked and was completely disoriented after being chased in
the morning by hunters," a police spokesman said. "It ran into a
village and broke through a cellar window into a house. It fell asleep
on a bed in the guest room."
THE CASANOVA COMMITMENT
ROME (Reuters) - Most Italians feel more guilty about over-eating than
they do about cheating on their partners, a survey has found,
suggesting that people in Casanova's native land care more about
staying slim than staying faithful.
The survey, by psychology magazine Riza Psicosomatica,
found that excessive eating and spending topped the list of what people
considered the most guilt-inducing vices.
Sexual infidelity came bottom of the list of the magazine's 'seven
deadly sins', behind neglecting friends and family, failing at work and
not looking after one's physique.
MINDING THE MUMMY
By Christy Arnold, The Cincinnati Enquirer
MADISONVILLE, Ohio — Johannas Pope didn't want to be buried, believing
that she would come back to life. Authorities say the body of Johannas
Pope sat in a chair on the second floor of this house for 2 1/2 years.
Pope died at her home here at age 61 on Aug. 29, 2003. A towel had been
placed around her neck to keep her cool on that 87-degree summer day.
She wore a white gown while sitting in a chair in an upstairs room, in
front of a television that played as family members went about their
lives downstairs.
She remained there, according to her wishes, for almost 2˝ years.
"Don't show my body when I'm dead," Hamilton County's coroner, Dr.
O'dell Owens, said Monday when explaining Pope's wishes. "Don't bury
me. I'm coming back.”
RETURN OF HARLEY THE CAT
HALLAM, Neb. (AP) — The Tighe family had long ago written off Harley the cat as dead. He was 8 years old when he went missing.
He was declawed. And he disappeared in the May 22, 2004, tornado.And
even if he had survived the storm, which claimed the Tighe home, he
wasn't a very nice cat, Sue Tighe said.She didn't think he'd find
anyone willing to take care of him.
Somehow, though, Harley made it. On Monday, he came home.
CHARLOTTE’S WEB
STOCKHOLM (AFP) - A spider that nested in the ear of a Swedish woman was discovered and removed alive after 27 days.
The black spider, "the size of a thumbnail", crept into the woman's ear
while she was sleeping and went undiscovered for almost a month,
Swedish tabloid Expressen reported Wednesday.
The woman, whose name was not disclosed, told the paper that she at
first experienced "a slight loss of hearing" and assumed that she had a
build-up of wax.
But when she heard "a scratching sound" in her ear she decided to go to
the pharmacy to buy a cleanser to wash out her ear cavity.
When she did so, the spider was flushed out alive and crawled away.
The woman recalled having seen a spider on her bed in November, 27 days earlier.
DOCTOR DOG
TAIPEI (AFP) - A female husky dog saved the life of a Taiwanese newborn
by snatching him from the toilet after his mother gave birth alone at
home and collapsed, a social worker said.
The woman gave birth to a baby boy into the toilet and managed to cut
the umbilical cord with a small pair of scissors before collapsing on
the floor, too weak to call for help from her roommate, she said.
But her faithful dog snatched up the infant's leg with her mouth and
rescued him from drowning, the social worker said, holding the baby in
her arms as the dog paced around at their temporary shelter in a
charity home in Kaohsiung, southern Taiwan.
"The dog approached her owner, who was lying on the ground in a
pool of blood, and saw the infant... she snatched up the baby's leg
with her mouth and rescued him from drowning," she said.
When the boy finally breathed and cried out after the dog licked him on
the face, Huang managed to call for help, said the social worker, who
withheld her name. The mother declined to speak to the press.
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