Handy the dog can run and fetch just like any other pooch – even though he has only two legs.
The 12-week-old puppy, who was born with a partial left front leg and no right front leg, was caged in an animal shelter when Steve Foss of St. Petersburg, Fla. came to his rescue.
He fitted the mixed-breed pit bull with a makeshift wheelchair, and now Handy can’t be stopped. “He has too much heart just to be destroyed,” said Foss.
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A body fell from the sky and crashed through the roof of a van, critically injuring the driver, cops in Hawaii say.
The 32-year-old woman was stopped at a traffic light when Camaron Tuupoina, 22, committed suicide by leaping from the 44-story Ohana Maile Sky Court in Waikiki and landed on her car.
James Hagar III, who was going past on his moped when the body plummeted, said, “It was pretty scary . . . and sad.”
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An Illinois trailer-park couple tried to “teach a lesson” to a friend by attempting to hang him, cops say.
John and Mary Rushman of Colona allegedly got fed up with house guest Richard Goddard Jr.’s threats of committing suicide, so they allegedly tied a noose around his neck, threw it over a beam and tried to hang him.
When that didn’t work, they beat the Goddard, 21, with a ball-peen hammer, authorities say. The couple is charged with aggravated battery. Cops say booze may have contributed to the incident.
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Dean Wolfram was walking out of a Wisconsin hospital after surgery when he saw his speeding Jeep crash through the lobby.
Turns out a pal tried to surprise him by driving up to the entrance of Waukesha Memorial – but the gas pedal stuck and the car zoomed out of control. Six people were injured.
“It was like something out of a movie,” Wolfram said. “This is not something that you’d expect to ever see in your lifetime.”
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A German artist wants to serve food made from urine and breast milk.
Karl-Friedrich Lentze has applied for a permission to serve soups enriched with urine and cakes baked with breast milk at a restaurant in the town of Euskirchen.
He says he’s convinced folks will be lining up to taste his urine-goulash and “mommy’s muffins.”