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Ben Belnap and his wife, Jackee, who had saved $1,060 to repay his parents for University of Utah football season tickets, discovered that the envelope containing the money had been fed through a shredder by their 2-yearold son, Leo.
Cory Morris of Ludlow Falls, Ohio, filmed driving his pickup with a cow poking its head out of the back window, says 18-month-old Annie has been part of his life since her mother rejected her at birth, adding that the 800-pound Annie regularly climbs into the back seat of his truck.
Parul Patel, the owner of a Jacksonville, Fla., gas station, placed a sign in his store asking customers not to warm urine in the microwave after people began using it to warm up samples before dropping the specimens off at nearby medical labs.
Saga Vanecek, 8, stepped on a 34-inch sword in a wood-and-leather sheath believed to be about 1,500 years old while helping her father with his boat on Vidostern lake in southern Sweden, with Mikael Nordstrom of the Jonkoping County museum saying her find also led to the discovery of a broach when others searched the lake.
Jared Hensley, athletic director at Soddy-Daisy High School in Tennessee, apologized for saying “blame the girls, because they pretty much ruin everything” about a ban on wearing athletic shorts at school, but will serve a 10-day suspension without pay imposed by the school district.
William Marshall, assistant chief of the Roosevelt Fire Department in New York, said a woman was rescued after falling headfirst into a garbage chute at a senior citizens apartment building in Staatsburg, N.Y., after residents heard screams, the Poughkeepsie Journal reported.
Garret Ankney, 54, of Nashville, Tenn., was charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon after, police said, he used an ax to slice his neighbor’s forearms because Ankney believed the neighbor’s dogs had eaten or killed his chickens.
Rudwan Abu-Rumman, president of the Anne Arundel County Muslim Council, said county Councilman John Grasso texted an apology for social media posts critical of Muslims, including one that said “Share if you think President Trump should ban Islam in American Schools.”
David Mazurek of Michigan said a 23-pound rock that was on property he bought in 1988 and had been used as a doorstop was actually a meteorite worth $100,000, after slivers of the rock were sent by a Central Michigan University geology professor to the Smithsonian Museum for testing.