Today's wierd but true from the NY Post.
WEIRD BUT TRUE
By LUKAS I. ALPERT, Wire Services
This is the definition of being caught in a jam.
Gibson Cook, 56, was trapped for 12 hours beneath a giant trash bin at a South Carolina landfill after he climbed underneath in a bid to steal about $10 worth of copper, police said.
When workers found him, all they saw were his legs sticking out from beneath the bin (below).
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The town of Lavonia, Ga., shelled out $1 million to buy a strip club in order to close it down.
"We bought it to get rid of it, bottom line," said city manager Gary Fesperman.
Even more satisfying, he said, was tearing down the club's billboards that lured in overly boisterous truckers.
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An infestation of skunks has turned the Texas town of Del Rio into a stinky hellhole.
Although the nocturnal, striped creatures keep rodents in check, residents preferring the rats to the redolent predators have been laying out traps.
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A booze-fueled argument between two pals in Iowa turned ugly when Donroy Merrival bit off the nose of Matthew Osring.
The flesh and cartilage were not recovered, and Osring thinks his dogs may have eaten it.
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An English woman got the fright of her life when she spotted a 4-foot snake slithering out of her toilet.
The snake belonged to Jane Finnegan's neighbor and had climbed up through a shared pipe, but Jane says the sight of it has left her "scared to go to the toilet."
