Burton spends millions on cracking nuts
Tim Burton, director of the remake of “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” spent millions of dollars to train squirrels how to crack nuts. The squirrels were chosen at birth and sent to a training school for six months to learn how to perform the task.
Citizen’s arrest
A 77-year-old grandmother tackled a 25-year-old man after she caught him jay walking. The woman made a citizen’s arrest and sat on the offender until police arrived. After yelling at the man as he started to cross the street before the light turned green, the woman became enraged when he bumped her with his backpack as he walked by her. She then pulled his hair and wrestled him to the ground until the authorities arrived. The man later received a fine for jay walking.
Police mistake drunken bumbling for murder
In Germany, murder investigation was reopened after a woman discovered a pair of false teeth and reading glasses in her garden. Police dug up the woman’s entire garden looking for other signs of a body. The mystery was solved, though, when police found a man’s wallet in the garden. All three items belong to a man who reported losing them after a day of heavy drinking. The man said he knew he had fallen over in a garden, but he could not remember which one.
Organ smuggler captured
Robert Mihaly, a Romanian thief, was charged with organ smuggling after a routine prison check showed the man was missing a kidney. Thirty-year-old Mihaly told prison officials the kidney had been removed due to a medical condition, but guards became suspicious after they were unable to find any hospital records verifying that fact. Authorities discovered that Mihaly sold his kidney in 2001 to a woman for almost $19,000.
MP’s stage protest in Ecuador
Military police in Ecuador threw water bottles and coins during a fight that disrupted parliament. The fight occurred during a debate over a potential candidate for general secretary. Police also made gun signs with their hands pretending to shoot the speakers. Parliament was suspended in an attempt to restore order. Even though the MP’s attempted to disrupt the meeting, the vote took place as scheduled.
Woman survives 40-foot fall
A woman fell 40 feet from her apartment window and survived after she landed on her feet. The woman fell from the fourth floor while attempting to clean the outside of the window. Although she did break both of her feet in the fall, she was lucky that she did not land on another part of her body. A local doctor said that people who fall from that height usually land on their back or head. The fact she landed on her feet may be the only thing that saved her.
Chinese man tries to break record
A 105-year-old man will challenge the current world record for the 100-meter dash among those over the age of 100. The man has been chosen to be a torch runner for the 10th National Games in China. The current record is held by a South African man named Philip Rabinowitz with a time of 30.86 seconds.