Posts Tagged ‘interesting news’

Donald Sugg continued the recent trend of seniors who sky-dive on his 96th birthday. He took the 14,000-foot dive as part of a nonprofit’s effort to cure Alzheimer’s disease. Sugg was quoted saying “I’ll grab attention. You watch the planes take off, there aren’t going to be too many 96-year-olds jumping off.” Source

A man 57, had is guitar stolen 8 years ago. He set up an e-mail notification for similar guitars on the auction site, Ebay. 8 years later he was notified of a guitar listing and discovered from the serial number that it was his stolen guitar. The duct tape on the case was still identifiable. He hopes [...]

A 7-foot-long alligator was roaming outside of a Tampa, Fl elementary school at a time when many children would be walking by. Police officers arrived and stood guard while waiting for a trapper to contain the gator. The gator began walking toward children before he arrived and police secured the gators mouth and handcuffed it’s [...]

A library book has been returned to the Winona Minnesota public library titled “”Small Voices: A Grownup’s Treasury of Selections from the Diaries, Journals and Notebooks of Young Children.” It was the library’s amnesty week for overdue books and was placed in the drop box. Librarians were thrilled to get in back. Records show it [...]

Police in Colorado arrested and handcuffed a man for drunk driving. The man, Adam Segura, was placed in the back of a patrol car. While the officers questioned a woman in Segura’s own vehicle, he climbed to the front seat of the patrol car and drove away. He was caught at a mall only about [...]