Edward Cheney was cruising a Pennsylvania highway when an airplane landed on the road and barreled head-on toward his pickup truck.
The 79-year-old retiree was able to crash his vehicle into a ditch to avoid the small Cessna, which had engine trouble over Buckhorn.
“It certainly was the most bizarre incident in my life. What else can you call it?” Cheney said.
A Minnesota man fired 11 bullets into the hood of his brother’s car in an attempt to “kill” it, cops say.
Damian Petersen of Oak Grove allegedly emptied his 10mm semiautomatic pistol into brother Devin’s 1989 Mercury Cougar after the pair argued and Devin drove over Damian’s lawn, tearing it up, before hitting his house.
“He was ruining my property, and he wouldn’t stop. The only thing I could do, I thought, was get my gun and shut his car down,” Damian said.
Who did cops in Shelbyville, Ky., call when their headquarters were plagued by rattling doors and creaky stairwells? The ghostbusters.
“The way I treat it is not that there is a ghost, there’s just things that I can’t explain,” said Officer John Wilson, who contacted the Scientific Investigative Ghost Hunting Team, based in Louisville.
The Pennsylvania county of Beaver hosted the 33rd annual Nude Volleyball Super Bowl over the weekend, and competitors were happy to let it all hang out.
“You don’t sweat as much,” said Jeff Poland, who played at the White Thorn Lodge nudist park in South Beaver Township. “You don’t get overheated because you don’t have clothes keeping the heat in.”
A family has kept a chain letter going for 87 years.
The Pletchers have maintained it for three generations, says Doug Pletcher of Savannah, Ga., who gets dozens of envelopes each year with letters and photos from uncles and cousins of 24 branches of his family tree from Florida to California.
“They are close-knit family and they wanted to keep in touch, so they started this letter that had a regular pattern,”said 83-year-old Jim Pletcher of Green Valley, Ariz., who is Doug’s uncle.