Weird BUT true
An airplane fuel cap fell from the heavens and nearly struck a Florida woman sitting outside at her home.
Dara Hackett said she and a pal were talking on the patio of her Winter Garden abode when they heard a loud bang. They later found the 8-inch metal cap.
This bull wanted some moo-la.
A steer escaped from a farm and made a dash into a Colorado Springs bank, sending customers scattering.
The 16-year-old longhorn, named Theme De Loof, hoofed it to Plaza of the Rockies, where he was eventually lassoed.
The taxman was dead wrong!
A Pennsylvania man was nearly fleeced out of thousands of dollars because the IRS mistakenly thought he had croaked.
John Bowen, of Reading, waited for months to get a $5,500 tax return in the mail before calling and writing officials at the agency multiple times.
When he finally got in touch with a worker, Bowen was told a computer glitch had determined he had died in February. He got the dough with interest.
These surgeons aren’t the full package.
A British man went under the knife for a minor bladder procedure — and when he awoke was stunned to find doctors had circumcised him.
Terry Brazier, 70, claims staffers at the Leicester Royal Infirmary mixed up their notes and performed the painful snip on the wrong guy. He was awarded $24,000 for the screw-up.
Vienna straphangers don’t want their trains to smell like green tea, grapefruit, sandalwood or melon.
Transit honchos released the fragrances in the ventilation systems of four trains on two of the network’s five lines last month, and asked straphangers if they like it.
Roughly 21,000 people said no, while 16,000 said yes.