Weird BUT true
His gift was a gamble. An Iowa woman thought her hubby was a cheapskate when he gave her one scratch-off lottery ticket for Valentine’s Day — until she won $100,000.
Cynthia Holmes’ hubby, Don, handed her the $10 scratcher and she shot back, “Oh, that’s really expensive.”
But the ticket scored a big 100 grand.
Forget about glass ceilings in Silicon Valley — beware the glass walls!
Two Apple employees — perhaps focused on their iPhones — have bruised themselves walking smack into see-through panes at the tech behemoth’s new headquarters in Cupertino, Calif. Talk about jet fumes! A commercial flight made an emergency landing in Austria when a fight broke out over a man who reportedly wouldn’t stop loudly passing gas.
The Transavia Airlines flight was en route from Dubai to Amsterdam when two fellow fliers asked the stinker to control himself.
When he refused, angry words and then punches were exchanged.
Amid the mayhem, the flight set down in Austria. D.A.R.E. to make meth? A Michigander sporting a T-shirt bearing the wellknown acronym for “Drug Abuse Resistance Education” was busted and convicted for manufacturing speed, and sentenced to up to 60 years in prison.
Jeffrey Schmiege, 47, was caught hauling a half-pound of crystal meth along with marijuana and prescription meds in Gogebic County, authorities said.
More than 20 people were booted off an Australian cruise ship when a brawl broke out — after one passenger stepped on another’s flip-flop.
Wild video footage showed several men fighting as the Carnival Legend sailed off New South Wales.
The troublemakers perhaps had been partying a little too hearty.