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BIZARRE BUT TRUE!

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FLORIDA fat cat Jon Atwood’s year-old Corgi Jessica fell off the family’s 65-foot yacht and managed to swim seven miles to safety through shark-infested waters! That’s doggone amazing!

NORTH Carolina bureaucrat­s sent Karly Sindy the FART vanity plate she’d requested as a joke — but then backed away from letting her use the offensive tag on her truck insisting it was issued in error. That stinks!

A 12,000-year-old woolly mammoth tooth was snagged by scallop fishermen off the coast of Newburypor­t, Mass. The seven-pound, 11-inch fang sold at auction for over $10,000, and skipper Tim Rider says he’ll use the money to feed the homeless.

IN 1954 golf-crazy President Dwight D. Eisenhower ordered the eradicatio­n of all squirrels on White House grounds because they were digging up his personal putting green.

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