A 13-foot shark got the surprise of its life when its “dinner’’ turned out to be an expert in martial arts.
Mariko Haugen was swimming in Hawaii when the shark came into view.
“All of a sudden, it was like Hollywood,’’ said the Folsom, Calif., woman.
“You see the big jaws coming at you.’’
She channeled her inner Bruce Lee, “gave it her best Tae Kwan Do black belt punch in the nose’’ and it turned tail and fled, said her husband, Don.
She escaped with a few bites but was in good spirits, savoring her victory.
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Hurricane Sandy toppled a century-old oak tree on the New Haven, Conn., green, and unearthed a colonial-era skeleton.
The tree was planted in 1909, to mark the 100th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s birth.
But the remains it was sheltering likely belonged to one of the thousands of people buried in there in the 1700s, said police spokesman David Hartman.
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A 108-year-old woman has finally decided to exercise her civic duty and vote.
Joanna Jenkins of Beaufort, SC, who had never before even registered, will cast her first-ever ballot for President Obama.
That’s because “every time she sees [him] on television, she gets really excited,’’ said her cousin.
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A creepy-looking lobster, half orange and half black, was caught by a fisherman in Massachusetts just days before Halloween.
The rare crustacean is known as a “split’’ — because the colors split perfectly down the middle.
Scientists said only one in 50 million lobsters sport that kind of seasonal coloration.
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Swedish firefighters rushed to a frantic report of flames seen through the window of an apartment house in the town of Jonkoping.
It turned out to be a DVD of a fireplace playing on a TV set.