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Elderly Woman Stuck In Bathtub For 5 Days

...... An older woman in Beaverton, Ore., is recovering after being stuck in her bathtub for five days.

Her apartment manager found her and called 911. "We're in the apartment and Dorothy is OK. She's in the tub and says she's been here for five days," he told the 911 operator.

The woman said she took a bath but was too weak to pull herself out of the tub, so she drained the water out of the tub and just waited for help.

The apartment manager entered the woman's apartment after no one had seen her for a few days.

She was taken to the hospital to get checked out and will reportedly be OK.....


Alleged Bank Robber Leaves Her Photo ID

A would-be bank robber came away empty-handed but left behind something useful for police: her photo identification. The woman was arrested less than an hour later on a charge of attempted armed robbery, Police Commissioner William Dwyer said.

The woman filled out an account application Thursday morning, then pulled a handgun and demanded cash, Dwyer said. She panicked and fled without getting any money; police found an address on the account application, along with her photo ID.

The address was for an apartment near the bank. The manager gave the woman's new address to police, who arrested her without incident.

"We're probably not dealing with the smartest person in the world," Dwyer told The Detroit News for a story published online Thursday


Angola elects first Miss Landmine Survivor

LUANDA, Angola - A woman who lost part of her leg when she stepped on a land mine has won Angola's Miss Landmine Survivor contest.

Eighteen women took part in Wednesday night's beauty pageant in Luanda, the capital. The contest was open to women maimed in land mine explosions and was devised to raise awareness of their plight.

The women posed in long gowns and in swimsuits during the televised show. They all wore artificial limbs.

Angola's two-decade civil war ended six years ago but as many as eight million land mines remain buried in the African country's soil. Land mines claim at least 300 victims a year in Angola, according to the United Nations Mine Action Center.

There are around 80,000 amputees in Angola, most of them victims of land mines.

The winner, Augusta Urica, 31, was to receive a custom-made artificial limb. She also got $2,500 and a variety of domestic appliances.....

The Minister for Family Affairs, Candida Celeste, said the event would help people left disabled by the war to regain their self-esteem.

"They showed that they can, that they are able," Celeste told reporters after the contest. "This will provide encouragement to all those left invalid by the war."

The contestants were chosen by organizers from each of the Southwest African country's 18 provinces.

The contest, which was the first such event in Angola, was organized by Morten Traavik, a Norwegian artist who was moved by the plight of the country's mine victims. Angola's National De-mining Commission and the European Union also provided support


Tire Falls From Helicopter Into Ga. Home


MONROE, Ga. - The mystery of a tire that plunged from the sky and crashed through the roof of a home here now has an explanation.

Federal Aviation Administration officials told home owner Mark Brown on Tuesday that the wheel plummeted to earth from a helicopter owned by the Loganville-based Forever Green Landscaping. The wheel is part of equipment used to haul the helicopter around the landing pad during maintenance.

Officials said the equipment should have been removed before flight.

The company's owner told the Athens Banner-Herald he didn't know his helicopter had lost a wheel.

Brown said he and his wife returned home last Wednesday to find pictures knocked to the floor and cracks in a hallway's drywall. He crawled into the attic, where he saw a hole about the size of a loaf of bread in his roof, with a tire peeking through.

"When I crawled up there and saw it pushing through the roof, I thought, 'I must be dreaming,'" Brown, a mechanic, told the Banner-Herald.

The Walton County Sheriff's Office traced serial numbers on the tire to the landscaping company, FAA spokeswoman Kathleen Bergen said. The FAA is still investigating the incident, she said.

Monroe is 46 miles east of Atlanta.
From The Associated Press......

Defendant hurled slipper at judge


An Indian man allegedly hurled a slipper at a court judge who promptly threw a paperweight back in reply.

Nazir Mohammad was in court in Baroda on charges of housebreaking and theft when he jumped out of the witness box and rushed towards the judge.

The robber, reportedly irritated with the slow pace of the case, took off his slipper and threw it at Chief judicial magistrate C D Vaghela.

Judge Vaghela immediately picked up a paperweight from his desk and threw it back at the accused, reports Midday.

Mohammed, who attacked two other judges last year in similar fashion, has been sent back to prison with an extra offence registered against him.

Members of the Baroda Bar Association went on strike after the incident to protest at the lack of security for judges, lawyers and witnesses.

From Funny News UK

An Australian Man steal 18 crocodiles

CANBERRA (Reuters) - Police in Australia's tropical north on Friday said they were hunting for thieves who stole 18 saltwater crocodiles.

The thieves entered an enclosure at a crocodile farm in the northern city of Darwin earlier in the week, taking 18 of the baby reptiles, police said in a statement.

The crocs were only about 37 centimetres (14 inches) long, but would be worth about A$1,000 (458 pounds) each on the black market, police said.

"They have obviously found a way to get in and remove 18 crocodiles from the farm. Eighteen crocs of that size could fit in a tub and be moved reasonably easily," police spokesman Matt Crichton told Australian Associated Press.

Saltwater crocodiles are the world's largest and most dangerous reptiles. Male "salties" can grow up to 6 metres long (20 feet).

Australian crocodile farming started across the tropical north in the 1980s, with crocodile skins exported to Japan, France, Italy and Singapore to be made into boots, handbags, belts and luggage.

From Reuters.....

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