Weird BUT true
A 12-year-old Australian boy, mad at his mom after an argument, booked a flight to Bali with her credit card — and flew to the Indonesian island by himself.
The pint-sized traveler, Drew, flashed his passport, passed through a computer check-in system and boarded a plane at Sydney International Airport, according to his mother Emma, who declined to provide the family’s last name.
Drew spent four days living it up at the luxury All Seasons Hotel in Denpasar before she tracked him down.
A Florida woman is up in arms over two cops who used her dead fiancé’s finger to try to unlock his cellphone.
The Largo detectives slipped into a funeral home in Clearwater and pressed Linus Phillips’s finger against the gadget, but couldn’t gain access to it, according to his fiancée, Victoria Armstrong.
The cops claimed to be investigating a drug-related case that involved Phillips, 30, who was shot dead by police last month.
A controversial Frida Kahlo Barbie Doll was banned temporarily from being sold in Mexico after relatives of the painter sued Mattel
Mara de Anda Romeo, of Mexico City, claimed the company used her greataunt’s image without permission and made the doll’s complexion too light.
A family in Jacksonville, Fla., found an intruder in their backyard swimming pool — a 9-foot alligator.
A licensed trapper was called to wrangle the rogue reptile.
Chinese officials are making a splash with new infrastructure that shoots a stream of water at jaywalkers.
The traffic signals in Daye, Hubei province, feature motion sensors and speakers that alert pedestrians when it’s safe to cross the street.
One message warns, “Please don’t go through. You will be sprayed with water!”