Weird BUT true
Two inmates broke out of prison only to get caught a day later — at an adventure park “escape room.”
Kelsie Laine Mast, 23, and Samantha Faye Toope, 20, jumped the fence at the Edmonton Institution for Women in Canada on Monday night, police said.
The fugitives were busted the next night at SideQuests Adventures — where people pay to solve puzzles that will unlock the doors of mock dungeons.
A new Tokyo cafe is really going out on a limb with its theme.
The World of Thighs Photography Cafe, opening Friday, promises diners curry and spaghetti dishes in a venue decorated with photos of women’s thighs.
It was all a big misssstake, says a Vermont man.
Wildlife officials busted David Buyak, 42, of Maidstone, for having 12 non-native hognose snakes on his property.
Buyak, who is contesting fines up to $722, says he didn’t know the snakes he raised after capturing two in Connecticut were illegal.
Introducing non-native snakes to Vermont can “devastate local plants and animals that are not used to their presence,” officials told him.
A 92-year-old Iowa City man who just won the lottery says a fortune cookie predicted it.
Charles Svatos opted for a one-time $390,000 payout, a month after the cookie’s inscription told him: “You will discover an unexpected treasure.”
Stop trying to keep up with the Joneses — or else!
A Canadian couple, Jason and Jodi Chapnik, filed a $2.5 million lawsuit against their neighbors, alleging a rip-off of their home’s Tudor style that devalued their “unique” property.
The neighbors, the Kirshenblatts, say their design was no rip-off, it came from a 1940 Canadian Homes and Gardens magazine.
But the two parties agreed to settle out of court.