SIDELINES...

TELEPORTATION 1

Florida emergency services were baffled when, after succeeding in freeing a naked woman with her legs tied up from a sewer drain in the parking lot of a Fort Myers restaurant, she admitted she had no idea how she had ended up there. They also checked three days of CCTV footage and found no sign of the woman, a guest at a nearby Travelodge, entering or being put in the drain. dailymail.co.uk, 15 Sept 2021.

TELEPORTATION 2

Firefighters needed to drill a hole in a wall and use a fibre optic camera to locate and rescue a naked man trapped inside the walls of the historic Landmark Theatre in Syracuse, New York. The 39-yearold man had been stuck there for several days and they needed to cut through several layers of drywall and structural clay tile to free him. D.Mirror, 13 Nov, 2021.

RARE CATCH

Retired factory inspector Tony Framingham from Heacham in Norfolk reeled in a cod while fishing a mile off Dovercourt in Essex in 1994. When he slit open the 16lb fish’s belly, he found a Roman coin bearing the head of Emperor Septimius Severus and dated to about AD 200. Sun, 15 June 1994.

BEAR TEMPTATION

In Monrovia, California, someone’s Christmas lawn decorations attracted more than just Santa. Donna Hargett filmed a bear cub attacking a neighbour’s inflatable reindeer while its mother looked on. “I looked up and there it was, jumping on the reindeer,” Hargett said, adding: “We see these two around all the time. They’re trouble.” Previously, they had broken into her home and left footprints on the bed. [UPI], 10 Dec 2021.