It must be true...

I read it in the tabloids

■■A California woman who abruptly went into labor delivered her baby in the front yard—an event captured by her doorbell camera. Emily Johnson and her husband live just five minutes from the hospital, so they didn’t rush when her contractions started. But when they finally did head out, Johnson got as far as the car before she realized she wouldn’t make it. “I’m just like, ‘This is my spot,’” she said. By the time emergency responders arrived, she had given birth to a son on her front lawn—and had a video to prove it. “I just laid back in the grass and took a nice, deep breath,” Johnson said. “But man, do I never want to do this again.”

■■A British man is offering an unusual chauffeur service with an armored personnel carrier he calls the Tank Taxi. Merlin Batchelor bought the 15-ton vehicle for $35,000 and restored it. Friends, “then friends of friends, and then people I didn’t even know” started asking about rides, he said. Batchelor now makes about $1,000 per job driving people to weddings, funerals, and other events. “As you drive along the street, there’s so many people smiling, laughing, pointing,” he said. Insuring his armored vehicle, he noted, is cheaper than insuring his Honda Civic.

■■A Peruvian family’s pet dog that angered neighbors by repeatedly killing and eating their ducks, chickens, and guinea pigs turned out to be an Andean fox. “We had thought he was a purebred puppy,” said Maribel Sotelo, who bought “Run Run” from a small pet shop in Lima. He initially played well with neighborhood dogs but became more aggressive as he grew. Run Run has since run off, and wildlife officials are now looking for him.