She’s making us look bad! Felimina Rotundo works 11 hours day, six days a week at a Buffalo, NY laundromat and says she has no plans to quit working even though she turned 100 two months ago. She tells WGRZ-TV that she got her first job at 15 during the Great… Read More
Idiot criminal steals car because of WHAT?!
It might be a long walk, but that’s still a terrible excuse to steal a car. A man accused of stealing a taxi after he was discharged from a Des Moines hospital says he didn’t want to walk home. Des Moines police say 26-year-old Luis Orellana-Rivera drove off with the… Read More
“Issue ME a ticket,” say citizens of MA town to police
Getting a ticket from police in one Massachusetts town isn’t necessarily a bad thing. In fact, some residents are eager for them. Concord’s police department says it plans to issue up to 200 “citations” for good behavior. That could include such things as wearing a bicycle helmet or a seat… Read More
Old house, new location [only in America!]
Years after a big city sprouted up around a tiny California house and its 87-year-old owner refused to sell the only home he’d ever known, heavy equipment rolled up to the lot. But it wasn’t there to demolish the three-bedroom Oakland house built by Lawrence Bossola’s parents. It was there… Read More
Charitable church tips pizza boy HOW MUCH?!
One large cheese pizza, extra blessings. Just two weeks after a church congregation in Ohio tipped a pizza delivery driver $1,000, a church in Anchorage has upped the stakes. Anchorage television station KTVA reports that Ken Felber has been a pizza delivery driver for 14 years. When he delivered a… Read More
What’s the buzz about naming this bug?
An auction on eBay allows the public to make a different kind of purchase as they peruse the used clothing, electronics and war relics on the site. Up for sale: naming rights to a new insect. A moth that weighs less than an ounce and measures about an inch was… Read More
Beautiful 450-year-old church rises from lake (see the pics!)
Look what the drought has revealed – a 450-year-old church! Leonel Mendoza fishes every day in a reservoir surrounded by forest and mountains in the southern Mexico state of Chiapas. But in recent days, he also has been ferrying curious passengers out to see the remains of a colonial-era church… Read More
Ahmed the ‘clock boy’ accepts invite to White House
Ahmed Mohamed, the Texas teenager arrested after a homemade clock he brought to school was mistaken for a bomb, capped a whirlwind month with a visit to the White House on Monday. Ahmed got a personal invitation from President Barack Obama for “Astronomy Night.” The president uses the event to… Read More
BIG snake takes over city bus, causes panic
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Officials say a 4-foot-long boa constrictor has gotten loose on a Philadelphia bus, leading to an emergency evacuation. Transit authority officials say a man carrying a boa constrictor boarded the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority bus just before 3 p.m. Sunday. The snake’s owner, 26-year-old Koron Riley, tells… Read More
“Gimme the exit row!” Brawling passengers force plane to land
Southwest Airlines says a jetliner on its way to San Francisco returned to Los Angeles International Airport after a fight between two passengers. Spokeswoman Melissa Ford tells The Associated Press that FBI agents met the plane at the gate and that one person was removed Sunday night. Ford says the… Read More