What, the doggy paddle isn’t good enough?
Colorado officials are moving to institute a rule mandating that dogs be fitted with canine life jackets in exercise pools at pet day-care and boarding facilities.
The move comes in the wake of reports of dogs drowning when left alone to exercise in the pools.
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Time Magazine just named President Obama its person of the year, and now scientists looking for publicity during a slow news week have named a spider after him.
A just-identified subset species of the Southwest “trapdoor” spider has been named “Aptostichus barackobamai.”
Other subsets have been dubbed “Aptostichus stephencolberti” and “Aptostichus angelinajolieae.”
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Who’s this guy’s supplier — Popeye?
A Scottish man was hospitalized in critical condition after overdosing on Brussels sprouts, which facilitate blood clotting.
Like spinach and kale, Brussels sprouts contain large amounts of vitamin K, which thickens blood.
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He made his last stand, literally, in his kitchen.
A Briton in West Sussex looked into his 35-year-old pal’s kitchen window, saw him reaching into a cupboard and greeted him.
The guy didn’t respond or move. Turns out he had died and the body had apparently gotten snagged on a cabinet.
The coroner said the guy had been crazy drunk in his home, banged his head and died reaching for something.
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Love is strange.
A 22-year-old woman in Argentina wants to marry the jailbird who was convicted of killing her twin sister.
Edith Casas believes Victor Cingolani, who was her sibling’s boyfriend, is innocent and wants to tie the knot with him in prison.
Her mother, however, has other ideas and has gone to court to put a halt to the nuptials.,