Weird But True

Weird but true

A motorist in Easton, Mass., lost control of his car and slammed into a business on Main Street — of all places, the Champion Driving School.

No one was hurt.

Champion owner Alicia Tantillo said she was just glad it wasn’t one of her students behind the wheel: “That would have been bad advertising.”

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You’re gonna need a bigger mine!

Jay Wright, a miner from Webster County, Ky., found a 300-million-year-old jaw bone 700 feet underground.

The fossil is from a shark that once swam the ocean over what is now Kentucky, scientists said.

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School spirit will NOT be tolerated.

If a voter strolls into a Washington County, Ohio, polling station on May 3 wearing clothes representing Marietta or Warren schools, they’ll be handed a poncho to cover their offending duds.

That’s because there’s a hotly contested tax measure on the ballot for funding school construction.

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Camelot lives on in Wichita, Kan.

US District Court Judge Wesley Brown is 103 and one of four appointees by President John F. Kennedy still on the bench.

“As a federal judge, I was appointed for life or good behavior, whichever I lose first,” Brown quipped.

Asked how he planned to leave his job, Brown replied, “Feet first.”

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She was in for a nude awakening.

A Mississippi woman was shocked when a naked man came tumbling through her ceiling — and asked her for clothes.

Keleigh Townsend denied his request, so he grabbed a coat off a hook and ran out.

Police say the man was a fugitive hiding out in the apartment complex. He had climbed into a crawl space — and came crashing through the flimsy drywall that of Townsend’s ceiling.

He was quickly busted.