You can label this item frightening but true.
An 87-year-old motorist drove the wrong way on the westbound Massachusetts Turnpike for 11 miles — and luckily tragedy didn’t result.
State Police finally managed to halt the old-timer, who was driving east on the westbound shoulder next to the high-speed lane.
He was sober but confused, and now he’s facing revocation of his license.
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The city of Helena, Mont., cracked down on a fire-code violation — at its own fire tower.
The landmark structure was rebuilt with wooden shingles in 2010 in violation of a 2008 regulation.
The whistleblower was a homeowner who in 2011 had been sued by the city over the same roofing violation.
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When a lawyer called a Coeur D’Alane, Idaho, city councilman a “moron” at a planning meeting, the insulted pol called 911.
Councilman Steve Adams, who later apologized, said he felt threatened when the agitated foe got within a foot of him but otherwise made no menacing move.
No one was arrested.
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It was a hair-raising theft.
Cops in Macon, Ga., are investigating the theft of $35,000 in human locks from a business specializing in hair extensions.
A witness reported seeing four men dressed in black and wearing gloves who had apparently broken in.
And one of the thieves was sporting long dreadlocks, the witness added.
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There are smugglers, and then there’s this wacky woman.
Security officials at Guangzhou Airport in China stopped a South Korean passenger trying to carry a forbidden bottle of liquid onto a flight.
They told her to drink her beverage or discard it.
She drank the fluid but refused to swallow, and when cops made her spit into a bucket, they discovered dozens of tadpoles she was trying to sneak aboard.