A visitor to the popular Camp Edison, California, campground in the Sierra Nevada foothills accidentally dropped his sunglasses into a camp toilet and tried to retrieve them. Yes, emergency crews had to be called to fish the guy out after he fell in. First responders got him out in about 15 minutes, and he was…
A Florida man handling his gun accidentally shot himself in the Redlands (* and that can hurt!), an area south of Miami. People living around him heard it happen, but didn’t react. One neighbor told a local news reporter, “We have always heard noises coming from the house. I’d hear screaming, but I figured it…
A woman in Georgia allowed her 13-year-old daughter to drive her SUV during a school drop-off – and was run over by the teenager. Investigators said Shumeka Johnson’s 13-year-old daughter was behind the wheel of a 2017 Chrysler Pacifica that was stopped in Brumby Elementary School’s drop-off lane. The SUV suddenly accelerated forward and struck…
A climber was rescued after being pinned beneath a massive boulder near Timberline Lodge on Oregon’s Mount Hood. The man was coming down the mountain and he stepped off the trail to let a couple of groups of other people come up. He apparently stepped into a scree field, loosening the rocks holding up the…
A burglar somehow found himself lodged inside the wall of a Salinas, California coffee shop. Salinas Police Department officers stopped in to the Brewjee coffee shop for their Monday morning coffee and heard faint calls for help. Coffee shop employees had heard them, too, but ignored them. The officers searched for the noise and were…
An 18-month-old slipped under the wolf pen fence at ZooAmerica, part of the Hershey Park amusement park in Hershey, Pennsylvania. She crawled under the outer fence and went up to the wolf habitat’s main barrier and put her hand through the metal fencing, where a wolf, as zoo officials put it, “instinctively latched on.” Bystanders…
Two kayakers in Canberra, Australia, were paddling Lake Burley Griffin watching the first day of the annual Canberra Balloon Spectacular. During the launch, some balloons like to fly low over the lake and skim the water. Eric Vu and William Lam didn’t see one of the balloons approaching behind them. By the time they saw…
A heartbroken Florida man who vanished on Valentine’s Day after a bad breakup was found over a week later submerged in mud at a sand plant. Andrew Giddens, 36, was found stuck up to his shoulders in a mud pit at the Vulcan Sand Plant, eight days after his father reported him missing. The 36-year-old…
In St Petersburg, Russia, a seven-year-old boy plunged from an 80ft apartment window, but was saved by a window cleaner standing on the ground. Khairullo Ibadullayev, 37, spotted the boy at the window, yelled for him to get back inside and then sprinted to a spot directly beneath the boy just as he suddenly dropped…
Officers with the King County Sheriff’s Office on Mercer Island, Washington, were finishing up practicing water rescues at Fish Lake when, out of the corner of his eye, one of the deputies saw a man fall through the ice. The crew were still dressed in their water rescue gear and equipped to put their practice…