“In the news tonight — we’re outta here!’’
Two anchors at a Bangor, Maine, TV station resigned on the air Tuesday — with a blast at their bosses.
The bizarre broadcast by Cindy Michaels and Tony Consiglio is believed to be a first for TV news.
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A murder suspect who apparently wanted his lawyer to stay cool dumped water over the attorney’s head as the Cedar Rapids, Iowa, jury began deliberations.
“It should have been a mistrial,’’ Jerome Power screamed before pouring the glass of water over Steve Addington’s head.
Earlier in the trial, he held a sign in the courtroom saying someone else committed the murder.
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Maybe Bambi should pose for cigarette ads.
A deer desperate for a smoke attacked two men in their back yard in Whitehouse, Texas.
The men fled, and the deer headed straight for their truck, whose door had been been left open.
The animal climbed in, grabbed a pack of cigarettes and started to eat them — before cops subdued it with a stun gun.
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You’re never too old . . .
A 105-year-old Swedish woman has been invited to enroll in a day school.
The invitations were sent to everyone in the town born in ’07 — and that included Anna Erickson.
But nobody realized that in her case, it was 1907.
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They may not buy expensive sports cars and leave their wives for younger women, but chimpanzees and orangutans, like their human cousins, have mid-life crises.
Researchers at England’s University of Warwick say that when the great apes hit middle age, they start acting depressed and discontented.
“Maybe nature doesn’t want us . . . sitting around contentedly with our feet up a tree,’’ said researcher Andrew Oswald. “Maybe discontent lights a fire under people, causing them to achieve.’’