Weird BUT true
Toronto’s morning rushhour subway commute was thrown off track by a masked intruder: a raccoon.
The furry trespasser, who sat on the tracks in front of a southbound train on the Yonge-University line Friday, halted main-line service for 10 minutes, according to police.
Authorities say they humanely captured the rolypoly fare-beater and handed him over to Animal Control.
A misfiring Oregon lawman who accidentally Tased a fellow officer ate humble pie — by presenting his zapped pal with a cake.
The icing inscription on the cake given to state trooper Mitchell Goldman by the mercifully unidentified Umatilla County deputy reads: “Sorry you got Tased.”
The lawmen were trying to subdue a belligerent suspect when the deputy misfired.
Better late than never. An Australian town was planning a big bash for its 150th anniversary, believing it was founded in 1868.
But researchers in Charleville, Queensland, discovered the town was actually founded in 1865.
Mayor Annie Liston says festive residents will celebrate anyway.
Hope he had health insurance.
An ancient mummy was diagnosed with cancer by upstate doctors — some 2,000 years after his death.
Doctors at Crouse Hospital in Syracuse performed a CAT scan on the mummified man and found a tumor in a leg bone.
A wealthy English homeowner is raffling off his $3 million pad, complete with Rolls Royce, stocked wine cellar, gardener and housekeeper — for $13 per ticket.
The four-bedroom house in the seaside town of Devon includes a swimming pool, a 10-acre landscaped garden and a three-hole golf green.
The mystery man says he just wants to “sell it” like that “to have some fun.”