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Burglar Left Dangling Over Hot Oil

Miss Cellania — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 15:03:13 +0000

A fire alarm alerted police to a break-in at Paesan’s Pizza in Rotterdam, New York about 1AM Friday. They found Timothy J. Cipriani wedged in an air duct with his legs dangling over a fryer in which the oil was still hot!

Cipriani allegedly told police he was trying to crawl inside the pizza parlor when he became trapped in the narrow vent. He was charged with burglary and possession of burglar tools.

Brown said a second person may have been involved, but disappeared before officers arrived.

Cipriani broke into the restaurant by first scaling a nearby tree and traversing the roof, Brown said. Once on the roof, he used a hammer to smash open air ducts.

Police took several photographs at the scene and shared them with reporters.

Police took 30 minutes to free Cipriani, who was taken, still covered in grease, to the Schenectady County jail. Link -via Arbroath

(Image credit: Rotterdam Police Department)

Visiting Cowboys Save City Horse From Drain

Tiffany — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 22:31:13 +0000

A carriage horse in Memphis, Tennessee had a wild weekend. The horse slipped on some manure and ended up stuck in a drain. Lucky for the horse some real cowboys were in town for a roping contest. The cowboys were able to slide the horse out of the drain using the manure like grease. The horse walked away without a scratch while one of the cowboys walked away covered in manure.

Laughing and pointing at Murrah, Johnson said, “He had the nice end of it. He had the tail!”

Murrah added, “Yea! I had manure from here all the way up to here.”

Stephanie Scurlock of WREG has more: Link

Tongue on Frozen Flagpole Claims Another Victim

Johnny Cat — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 02:52:27 +0000

When my hometown of Vancouver, Washington isn’t landing on Neatorama for its bus-riding goats, it’s usually quiet on the odd news front. But yesterday, firefighters had to remove a middle schooler’s tongue from a frozen flagpole.

Firefighter Mike Swanson then applied warm water to the boy’s tongue to get it unstuck. The firefighter crew gave the boy hot chocolate and cookies and he required no further medical attention. ”This is a first [in] my 18 years with the fire district,” Swanson said.

A news release from the fire department said that even when issued a “triple-dog dare,” they advise people against putting their tongue on a metal pole in the cold.

(Sigh) It’s beginning to look a lot like A Christmas Story.

Link. Photo: Warner Brothers Pictures.

Sad Rat Photo

Johnny Cat — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:55:59 +0000

Gothamist reader “Wayne” took this photo of a rat apparently stuck trying to emerge from a crack in the pavement. Other readers went to work with Photoshopped explanations and fun interpretations almost immediately.

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18 People Stuck On Roller Coaster

Algonkin — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 13:15:57 +0000

Eighteen people who rode a roller coaster in Anhui, China, got more than they bargained for: they got stuck upside down for half an hour when strong winds caused the roller coaster to stop on its track!

Strong winds brought a roller coaster to a halt at the top of its loop at a fun park in Anhui province in east China, leaving 18 people hanging upside down for about half an hour with six of them falling ill, an official said.
All the six persons were sent to a hospital and were discharged later, the official said.

The equipment was in good condition and the weather was suitable when the coaster began its journey but a sudden gust halted it, which was then locked to the loop by safety devices, with the passengers hanging upside down.

Zhang Shengying, Deputy Director of the Wuhu Municipal Bureau of Quality and Technical Supervision, said investigation showed that the accident had been caused by “extreme weather” at the amusement park.

Source: ptinews
Image: China.org