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…
A Pennsylvania woman was trapped with her car inside a malfunctioning car wash for nearly an hour. Felicia Sullivan was at the Waynesboro Waterworks car wash when the system abruptly shut off and the doors closed while her car was still covered in soap. Sullivan tried using an emergency button inside the wash, but that…
Wait long enough, and somebody somewhere will be killed in every possible way. This time, a beloved Florida pastry chef was tragically killed after getting caught in a bread-mixing machine at a grocery store where he worked. Mordehay Grunberger, 71, was found dead at the South Florida Kosher Market in North Miami Beach following a…