Weird BUT true

Lining up a designated driver to take you home is always a smart move — unless that motorist is 11.

A 35yearold man in Wausau, Wis., was charged with reckless endangerment after allegedly allowing his young daughter to take the wheel of his SUV because he was drunk and unable to drive.

The perfectly sober child then drove into a tree.

A demolition crew that was about to raze an old house in Pennsylvania instead stumbled upon valuable local history.

Workers taking down the condemned home in Middletown stopped in their tracks after finding a secret room and a 60foot tunnel.

Local historians believe that the hidden space was once used as a stop on the Underground Railroad, via which slaves escaped to freedom in the 19th century, and then later as a speakeasy during Prohibition.

An 85yearold woman has met her 94yearold halfsister for the first time.

Zelda Gates, of Jenks. Okla., had no idea she had an older halfsister until reading her dad’s will.

She used old photos and genealogical records to find Reta Knight, who lives in Kansas City, Mo., and they met Monday in Oklahoma.

Officials want to know if a Chinese climber who reached the peak of Mount Everest last week did so with the help of a helicopter.

Wang Jing, 40, completed what would be the first successful climb since an avalanche killed 16 Nepalese guides in April.

Authorities are investigating whether Wang used a helicopter to bypass the part of the route damaged by the avalanche.

A Japanese nurse was murdered — and her remains were shipped in a box marked “Doll” — to a storage facility.

A friend of victim Rika Okada, 29, has been arrested in China for allegedly using her passport to get to Shanghai.