A drunk driver who was clocked doing 2 mph in a stolen construction lifting machine told cops he had been dared to take the equipment by a stranger he met on Craigslist.
The Mountlake Terrace, Wash., man was operating the device from the bucket atop the machine’s lift arm when cops stopped him.
He first told them he was just driving to the store.
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Scrap that idea!
Plans to recycle an old bank safe were quickly abandoned when a steel-plant worker opened it – and found $128,000 inside.
The worker returned the cash to Germany’s Postbank, which blamed the “carelessness of an employee” who forgot to empty it when a branch office was closed down.
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It’s a dirty way to make a lot of money.
Sewage passing through a Japanese treatment center has been found to have a higher yield of gold than some of the world’s best mines.
The center is discovering about 4 1/4pounds of gold in every ton of incinerated sludge.
The jackpot is attributed to the area’s high number of industries that use the metal in machinery.
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It’s not just the living who get national health care in England.
Hospital bosses have hired an exorcist to “treat” a ghost seen wandering the corridors of Derby’s new Royal Hospital.
The spirit is thought to be that of a Roman soldier killed on the spot in ancient times.
“I’m taking it seriously, as the last thing I want is staff feeling uneasy at work,” said a manager who is bringing in a local priest.
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Maybe they should heed their own advice.
Firefighters in Japan set their station ablaze when they dashed out to answer an emergency call – and left their stove on.
The rescue workers had been cooking dinner when the call came in.