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A week of close calls for headbangers, power-line hangers and doppelgangsters

CLEARED:

An 88-year-old German woman. A SWAT team bashed in her door and set off a stun grenade after mistaking her apartment for that of a biker gang member. Police got the building numbers mixed up. But she was no gangster or even doppelgangster.

HARD TO DETECT:

Brown tree snakes in Hawaii. The state is bringing in four to train dogs, so that the dogs can in turn detect the invasive species and prevent them from establishing themselves. Snakes haven’t been found in Hawaii in 20 years. The new visitors will be male, and sterile.

TANGLED UP:

A British pensioner couple, in drug-dealing allegations. The Daily Telegraph reports the pair, aged 70 and 72, were arrested after allegedly trying to smuggle £2 million of cocaine into Europe on their cruise ship. They are currently in Portuguese jails.

STUCK:

British PM Theresa May, in a car. In what many called a metaphor for her Brexit difficulties, a car door that wouldn’t unlock left her in the back seat as several people inside and outside tried it. In 2016, cabinet minister Michael Gove compared staying in the EU to “hostages locked in the back of the car.”

ACCUSED:

A death metal guitarist, of trying to attack a deputy. The lead guitarist for Cannibal Corpse, Patrick O’Brien, 53, allegedly broke into a Florida home and attacked a deputy who responded. The assailant’s knife lost out to the deputy’s stun gun, and he’s in jail mulling his next Christmas album.

HARD TO MISS:

A Russian Orthodox priest’s bling. Vyacheslav Baskakov Instagrammed his Gucci and Louis Vuitton items, including luxury slippers and silver-buckled shoes, the Guardian reported. He faces some church discipline, and possibly a big Visa bill — though he said most photos were in stores.

UNTANGLED:

A paraglider who got caught up in power lines. The incident led to a power shut-off in the eastern Venezuelan state of Tachira. The state-run power company said the man was rescued, though any injuries were unclear.

FLEXIBLE:

Golfer Cody Blick. After his clubs were stolen, he borrowed clubs for a makeshift set and shot 63 in a key qualifying tournament round, to help him gain access to next season’s Web.com Tour. He finished 25th. “I was kinda freaking out, but I had to get it together.”