Weird BUT true
Italian police who shut down an airport to blow up a suspicious bag were, it turns out, just cuckoo for coconuts.
The explosion in Terminal 3 at Rome’s Fiumicino airport revealed that the suitcase contained no bombs — just coconuts.
Twitter users jokingly praised cops for dispatching the potentially dangerous “weapons of mass desiccation.”
So much for the reliability of polygraph tests.
A British man who claims to be a time traveler who has hung out with telepathic robot-human hybrids in the year 8973 has passed a lie-detector test administered by the YouTube paranormal channel ApexTV.
The man, William Taylor, says we’ll all be time-traveling by 2028.
What hath Garth wrought?
A karaoke host in Washington state raised $10,000 for breast-cancer awareness by singing the same Garth Brooks song — for 36 hours straight.
Cliff Satterwhite of Seattle began crooning “Friends in Low Places” on Tuesday at the Stars Bar and Grill; he was done at about noon on Wednesday.
An reptile rescuer in India completed a very ssssscary mission.
Mirza Mohd Arif was called to a village in Bhadrak state, Orrisda, to free a deadly king cobra stuck in a plastic-drinks pallet.
While holding the snake’s head with one hand, he cut the pallet used to carry Pepsi bottles and freed the serpent.
Now he’s trapped in his very own red-light district.
A New York man who took too much erectile-dysfunction medication is suffering from an irreversible condition called erythropsia — which gives everything he sees a red hue.
Doctors at Mount Sinai Medical Center used advanced-imaging techniques to diagnose the structural changes to his retinas.