It’s probably good that he didn’t make it to the DMV.
An 87-year-old man driving to a California motor-vehicle office went astray when he accidently tried to a take a bike path instead of a road.
His Toyota got wedged between two walls on a part of the path that went over a bridge, and he had to be freed with a crane.
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School was closed in two Michigan counties — thanks to the Mayans.
Officials in Lapeer and Genesee counties canceled classes yesterday and today because of “rumors about the Mayan calender predictions,” the school district said in a letter to parents.
The district also said Nostradamus soon will be finalizing next year’s high-school football schedule.
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While most of the nation is facing the fiscal cliff, folks in Kodiak, Alaska, are facing the “fecal” cliff.
Because of a change at the city landfill, raw sewage can no longer be dumped there, which means, basically, that the people of Kodiak will soon be in deep doo-doo.
Officials are mulling one way to wipe away their problem — using the poop as compost.
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Some husbands end up in the doghouse. This guy wound up in a treehouse.
An Indian man has spent nine months in a guava tree since finding out his wife cheated on him.
The man, known only as Sanjay, is refusing to come down until she apologizes. So far, however, the missus has shown no sign of regret.
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This sounds like the start of a horror movie.
When a 3-year-old Australian boy found a small clutch of eggs in his yard, he collected them and hid them in his bedroom.
The eggs weren’t so innocent — they were laid by an eastern brown snake, one of the deadliest in the world.
By the time the tot’s mom found them, many of the eggs had hatched. Fortunately, none of the snakes had gotten loose.