A Jacksonville woman spotted her own stolen car on the road, followed it for 20 miles, then watched as it crashed into a bridge and fell into a river. The thief swam to the other side and ran away.
A roofer's union in Joliet, Illinois resorted to installing a giant inflatable rat in front of a local church where they have been protesting the church's decision to use non-union laborers to repair part of the roof damaged by lightning. The rat's name is Scabby.
A window display at an upscale clothing store in London is reportedly so obscene that the volume of complaints about it has become a Twitter topic and has the Advertising Standards Authority in Britain looking into it. The main concern is the denigration of women depicted in the display.
Two sixth grade teachers in Massachusetts exceeded their authority when they issued a memo banning pens and pencils from their classrooms out of a concern students were using them as weapons. The memo said students would be given a pencil that had to be returned at the end of the day. The school board rescinded it.
A Michigan man is suing Del Monte and Kroger claiming that he was injured when he opened a jar of fruit that exploded in his face. He said the lid forcefully popped off, struck him in the eye and rendered him unconscious. A lawyer for the defendants declined comment.
And saving the best for last, a woman in Boise is free on a $100,000 bond after being accused of impersonating a physician and giving breast exams to women she met in bars around the city. As part of her ruse, she gave the women a phone number of a real, licensed plastic surgeon's practice where she recommended breast augmentation. When the doctor's office started getting numerous unexplained calls from women wanting to set up an appointment, they alerted police.
That's it for now. Stay safe — it's crazy out there!
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