Here’s a different twist on “money laundering.”
A psychic was busted in Louisiana for allegedly charging a woman $10,000 to clean her money of bad spirits.
April Steven allegedly told the woman, “Money is the root of all evil,” and convinced her that only a pricy “cleansing” process can change that. It helped in one way; the victim had a lot less money with which to do evil.
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Scientists in Arizona have helped an alligator swim again — by giving him a prosthetic tail.
The gator, named Mr. Stubbs, lost his tail as a baby. The replacement cost the researcher $6,000 and brings the gator to more than 7 feet long.
Gators’ tails provide much of their buoyancy, so the prosthetic includes an inflated rubber ring to serve as a sort of life preserver.
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Has this guy ever heard of airplanes?
A 31-year-old man made a 4,000-mile journey north to south across the United States entirely by kayak.
Daniel Alvarez paddled the 17-foot boat from northern Minnesota, down the Mississippi River to Key West, Fla. in about nine months, at a rate of about 20 miles per day.
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Cops in New Zealand found a body in a car that was parked by a busy intersection for five days.
“He was in the front seat, which was reclined, and he had sort of rolled over on the seat,” a police official said of the Auckland man.
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A British driver had a close encounter of the 5-0 kind.
The crazed man rammed his car into a police vehicle while speeding because he believed he was being chased by aliens.
Brett Webber continued driving and was finally caught when cops popped his tires. He was found chanting, “Doh, ray, me, soh,” because he thought it would ward off the visitors.
Fortunately, no one was hurt.