Weird BUT true
Holy smokes. A Jeep ran off I385 near Memphis, Tenn., and cops pulled out the trapped driver moments before his ride exploded.
The vehicle was destroyed — but a Bible in the passenger seat was completely undamaged.
Here’s good work if you can get it.
A maintenance foreman with the Boston subway system selfapproved massive overtime for himself — boosting his base pay from $84,822 to $327,636 last year, an audit revealed.
Transit officials admitted a weakness in the accounting system that allows workers to selfapprove OT.
A transgender woman in Sparta, Mich., will get double the name recognition in the race for town supervisor.
Candidates who have changed their names within the past 10 years for a reason other than marriage have to disclose the swap on the ballot, so Gidget Groendy will have a notation saying she was “formerly Scott Wade Langford.”
Not much rest and relaxation here.
The Embassy Suites Hotel near Los Angeles International Airport was evacuated for several hours after someone used butane lighters to extract THC from marijuana.
THC is much more valuable when separated from the plant — but the process caused fumes so strong, that cops had to clear out the hotel.
All this monkey business has finally been sorted out.
An appeals court on Tuesday cleared a London Zoo meerkat expert after she was initially convicted of “reckless assault” against a monkey handler — all part of a love triangle also involving the zoo’s llama keeper.
Caroline Westlake had been convicted of striking Kate Sanders with a wine glass because they both dated Adam Davies, the llama guy.
But the appeals court said the trial court applied the wrong legal test for recklessness, so the conviction was tossed.