Archive for May, 2007
A rescue team navigated flooded farmland in a boat to save a 70-year-old woman and her dog from rising floodwaters and made another critical rescue – a pot of stew from the woman’s stove.
Geneva Taptto frantically began calling for help Wednesday when she realized her rural home near Walters was surrounded by floodwaters.
“They couldn’t get the boat to the house. They had to wade in water to get me and the dog,” Taptto said. “They even brought the stew. I worked all morning on that stew.”
A thief covered his face with a pair of blue women’s underwear and used a pistol-shaped cigarette lighter in a botched robbery of a convenience store, police said. “I couldn’t make this stuff up if I tried,” State Police Sgt. T.C. Kearns told The Journal in Martinsburg.
The cashier at first thought it was a joke and refused to give the man any money, so he ran to a Jeep Cherokee and drove away at about 4 a.m. Wednesday, Kearns said.
A few minutes later, police stopped a vehicle matching that description and took two men into custody.
A lottery winner has spent his £2.8million fortune and gone back to the job he quit when he won the jackpot 12 years ago.
Michael Antonucci, 58, became one of Britain’s first lotto winners after borrowing a tenner from his mum to buy tickets.
He spent the cash on a boat, a nightclub, luxury properties, dabbling in different businesses and a 12 week marriage to a topless model.
But now Michael’s back at his old trade – buying junk furniture and exporting it to the United States from a lock-up in Plymouth, reports the Daily MIrror.
A driving student lost her licence three hours after passing her test after going for a drink with her instructor to celebrate.
Police in the Bulgarian capital Sofia pulled over Kristina Andreeva, 23, for erratic driving and a breath test found both she and instructor Ivan Filin, 48, were three times over the limit.
Andreeva said: “I had promised to buy him a drink if I got my licence and we went to a cafe, had a couple of wines and then offered to drive him home. I was so happy I just didn’t think about the drink drive rules.”