Weird BUT true
A Tennessee good Samaritan acted quackly, er, quickly — to rescue some ducklings.
Shara Fenell, after spotting a mama duck quacking near a Memphis street grate, donned shorts and sandals. She lowered herself into a storm drain and scooped up the ducklings, which had fallen in.
A video of the rescue ends with the duck family reunited to a chorus of “awws” from bystanders.
It was like a scene straight out of “Twister.”
Aaron Brown, a Colorado farmer, said he’s thankful to be alive after he found himself stuck in his truck, in a ditch in a field, as three tornados passed.
“God is good,” said Brown. “That’s all I can say.”
He gave new meaning to the term “mile-high club.”
A Southwest Airlines passenger reportedly lit up a joint in the bathroom of a San Francisco-to-LA flight.
When the smoke set off a fire alarm on Wednesday, the plane was diverted to San Jose, the airline said.
The passenger was turned over to law enforcement.
There are lousy parkers — and then there’s this guy.
A Sydney, Australia, hotel valet who was supposed to park a Porsche Carrera for a guest managed to drive the high-end sports car under an SUV Thursday.
The Hyatt Regency staffer, who had to be cut out from the Porsche, was “embarrassed and a little bit shocked,” said a hotel flack.
Crooks stole an ape, a lemur and a tortoise from a Canadian zoo.
The thieves cut through a parking-lot fence at the Elmvale Jungle Zoo in Ontario to swipe the baby gibbon named Agnes, the lemur named JC and a tortoise named Stanley.
A $10,000 reward is being offered for info leading to the animals’ return.
“We’re devastated,” a zoo staffer said on Facebook.