Eight year old drives after mom passes out
An 8-year-old southeast Kansas girl is being hailed for her quick, calm thinking after she grabbed the steering wheel and drove the family’s SUV when her mother fell unconscious on their highway ride to school.
Abby Porter and her mom, Shelly, were on Kanas 66 headed to her school in Riverton early Wednesday when Shelly had a medical emergency and passed out behind the wheel, Galena Police Chief larry Delmont said Thursday. With her mother slumped over, Abby — a second-grader whose father sometimes lets her steer their tractor and lawn mower — leaned over and took the wheel. Delmont said at some point, Abby even executed a U-turn on the four-lane highway, “because she was going home to her daddy.” “That’s at 8:37 in the morning, and there is a lot of traffic, a lot of trucks,” Delmont said.(AP)
Roommates find $40K in used couch
For all the screaming and carrying on, their neighbours thought they’d won the lottery. But it was a lumpy old sofa stuffed with $40,000 in cash that had three young roommates raising a ruckus.
And here’s the other side of the ticket: They returned the money to the 91-year-old widow whose couch had been given away.
“We just pulled out envelopes and envelopes,” said Cally Guasti, a social worker with Family of Woodstock who shares an apartment with two friends in New Paltz, 75 miles north of New York City. “My mouth was literally hanging open — everybody’s was — it was an unfathomable amount.”
Guasti told The Associated Press on Thursday that she and her friends had bought the beat-up couch and a chair for $55 at a Salvation Army thrift shop in March. They noticed the arm cushions were weirdly lumpy. Then, one night in April, one of them, State University of New York at New Paltz student Reese Werkhoven, opened a zipper on one arm and found an envelope. It contained $4,000 in bubble-wrapped bills.
(Associated Press)
Hundreds of vultures invade a neighbourhood
WSET ABC 13 News is reporting that packs of vultures won’t leave a neighborhood in lynchburg, Virginia alone.
West Princeton Circle, the neighbourhood in question, is where Michelle Ewing-Karega lives. She told WSET that the vultures started coming by two weeks ago, and that they definitely make their presence known, saying, “We woke up to what sounded like dogs on the roof, ‘cause they’re so large.” It’s not just a few of the birds, either. Ms Ewing-Karega says, “I counted 40 on (my) roof as well as the neighbour’s roof…and then again like 20 and 30 plus down, I mean I can’t stand down and count them all, there’s literally hundreds of them.” The scavengers go after garbage, peck at roof shingles, are terribly loud, and simply won’t go away.
Virginia Wildlife Services State Director Scott C Barras told WSET, “It’s perfectly legal to harass these birds, to disperse these birds.” Mr Barras also pointed out that the birds are not normally aggressive, but that small pets should be kept away.
(Yahoo News)
Car thieves post pictures using victim’s account
Bobby Oliver, a 29-year-old electronics developer for Intel and also a photography enthusiast had parked his car near a coffee shop in longview, Washington in the early morning hours of May 8 to take some photographs when it was still dark out. While snapping photos he realised that he had misplaced his keys. Some thieves found the keys and took off in Mr Oliver’s car.
It wasn’t only a 1997 Audi that the thieves got away with. Inside the car, there was $4000 worth of electronics. One of these electronics was a Nexus 10 tablet. The thieves used that very tablet to add insult to injury. They took a picture of the items they had stolen from Mr Oliver with the tablet and then, using its Facebook app, posted it under Mr Oliver’s account.
(Yahoo News)
Man covered with bees for over 53 minutes
An Ruan liangming, an experienced beekeeper, broke the Guinness World Record for the longest time spent keeping bees on a human’s shoulders. From China’s Jiangxi Province, Ruan boldly told CCTV News, “I have been keeping bees for 19 years, so I know their habits and characteristics. I am quite confident.”
Ruan wore no shirt and was only protected by cotton ear plugs when he was smeared with honey and covered with bees. “There are so many bees on him. It looks so dangerous,” said a woman watching Ruan’s feat in fear. The beekeeper lasted 53 minutes and 34 seconds before his legs went numb and he had to shake the insects off. Guinness officials were on site to certify Ruan’s achievement.