On Tuesday, a Mississippi woman made tea after being shot through the head, and was then rushed to the hospital. The 47-year-old woman was talking and coherent when sheriff’s deputies arrived, offering them something to drink. As of Friday, she remained in the hospital, but was expected to fully recover.
Doctors in the Central Russian city of Izhevsk found a five-centimeter fir tree growing inside of a man’s lung. After a chest x-ray revealed a tumor in the lung, the doctors performed a biopsy and removed the piece of lung containing the fir roots, which have been preserved for further study. The patient said he had not suspected an alien object to be the cause of his chest pain.
Russian citizen Alexei Roskov survived falling fifty feet—twice. After drinking three bottles of vodka, the man hurled himself out of a fifth-story window, but was able to climb the stairs back up to his apartment. “When I came back up and I heard my wife screaming angrily at me, I thought it was best if I left the room again—out of the window,” he said. After the second fall, Roskov was treated for minor cuts and bruises, and then released. He claims to have given up drinking.
The pilots of a Boeing 777 went through over four minutes of takeoff preparation before becoming aware that part of the plane was on fire. The crew had noticed significant smoke, but had attributed the smoke to an earlier problem with the plane’s electrical systems. When a tug driver alerted the cockpit crew of the fire, all passengers were evacuated, and the fire was extinguished.
An Oregon man has spent three years trying to kill a feral pig with no success, and now may soon be guilty of a criminal offense as a result of this failure. A bill currently in the Oregon Legislature would require landowners to trap or shoot any untamed swine on their land, or allow someone else to do so. Sources did not say what would happen if landowners were simply unable to remove the offending animals.
The Australian airline Qantas took a plane out of service when four baby pythons were found to be missing from the cargo hold. After weighing the remaining snakes to ensure that the four had not been eaten, Qantas staff were at a loss to explain the disappearance, as the snakes had been properly packaged, and none were found within the plane. The aircraft was fumigated and returned to service.
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