Weird true
He’s a flight risk.
A man has been arrested for jumping out of a Southwest Airlines plane as it was taxiing to the airport gate in Arizona, authorities said.
Daniel Ramirez, 30, leaped from the back of the plane after it landed in Phoenix from Colorado Springs on Saturday, authorities said.
Police tracked him down at a nearby fire station, where he had locked himself inside before surrendering.
She doesn’t have to keep her eyes peeled anymore.
A Scottish woman who lost her wedding ring in a potato patch five decades ago has been reunited with it, thanks to a man with a metal detector.
Peggy MacSween, 86, had told her neighbor, Donald MacPhee, that she lost the precious jewelry about 50 years ago while gathering potatoes in a meadow. MacPhee spent three days searching the field until he unearthed the ring.
“It was in immaculate condition. She put it on her finger, and it still fitted perfectly,” he said.
Don’t mess with mom. Wildlife officials say Kiran Baiga was sitting with her 5-year-old son when a leopard snatched him from their hut in the central Indian village of Badi Jhiriya.
She chased the animal and screamed until it let go of her son and ran away.
A North Carolina man who accidentally bought two of the same lottery tickets hit the jackpot twice.
Scotty Thomas, 49, from Fayetteville said he couldn’t remember whether he had already purchased a ticket online for the Lucky for Life game Nov. 27, so he filled out the form again.
The next morning, he realized that he had won $25,000 every year for life with each ticket in the drawing.
He was just kidding around.
A goat in India got into a government office and made off with files.
Video shows the critter running with a stack of papers in its mouth from the Panchayat Secretary office.