When people in Vaughan, NM, need a cop, they call for Deputy Dawg.
The police chief quit after stories surfaced that he was behind on child support.
His No. 2, pleaded guilty to assaulting a relative.
That left Nikka, the town’s drug-sniffing dog, the only member of the force officially allowed to make a collar.
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Love was in the air.
Ryan Thompson took his girlfriend, Carlie Kennedy, for a ride over Chicago in his small plane.
He pretended to lose control and asked her to read off the emergency check list as they seemingly headed for a crash landing in a lake.
She was terrified until she reached the last item: a marriage proposal.
“I genuinely did believe it was a true emergency,’’ she later told NBC. “It was a swing of emotions like I’ve never experienced before. I’ve never been that happy.’’
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This would never happen if Mayor Bloomberg were secretary of agriculture.
Dairy farmers faced with sky high prices for corn because of the Midwest drought have started feeding their cows candy, including marshmallows, fruit loops and gummy worms.
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This takes snail mail to a whole new level.
Postmen failed to collect letters from a mailbox in a busy train station in Birmingham, England, for 23 years. Royal Mail officials finally realized the box was there when the station was renovated.
They’re trying to deliver the old mail, some of which dates to 1989, and also to figure out how none of their carriers noticed the box, which thousands of commuters pass every day.
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A 4-year-old boy in Garsnas, Sweden, took his mom’s car for a ride while she was sleeping.
He drove it a quarter of a mile before smashing it into a truck. No one was hurt.
“I have no idea how he managed,’’ his mother said. “He’s never driven a car before. ’’