Weird But True

Weird but true

An Oklahoma man discovered that noodling — the trendy sport of catching huge fish with your bare hands — has a downside.

The varmint that Destry Mitchell of Atoka ended up with was a 3 1/2-foot cottonmouth snake.

One week in the hospital and 14 doses of anti-venom later, Mitchell offered advice to would-be noodlers: “Make sure to be careful.”

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Purgatory Creek has been cleansed of its sins.

A driver lost control of a semi-truck on a slippery road in Botetourt County, Va., and overturned in the creek — leaving its cargo of leaking dish detergent bottles to turn the water a soapy white.

“Pretty much a one-of-a- kind thing,” said a local resident, Noah Gillam.

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A Wisconsin couple thought they had a good excuse for leaving their baby in a parked car: They wanted to buy sex toys and the store didn’t allow entrance to anyone under 18.

Cops in Libertyville said the 9-month-old was sweating profusely but didn’t suffer long-term effects when his 18-year-old dad and 20-year-old mom left him in the sweltering car for 20 minutes.

They face child-endangerment charges.

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What looks like a bird, hops like a little kangaroo and has not been seen alive in more than a century? It’s the very endangered Night Parrot.

Australian naturalist John Young recently photographed it in the northern state of Queensland but won’t say exactly where.

“I think the worst thing we can do at the moment is let too many people anywhere near it,” he said,

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Too many cigarettes — or too many “Saw” movies?

A two-pack-a-day smoker is beating the habit with a homemade head cage.

Ibrahim Yucel, 42, of Turkey fashioned a birdcage-like device out of copper wire to prevent himself from getting a cigarette to his mouth. He gave the only keys to his wife and 14-year-old daughter.