Where are Orville and Wilbur when you need them?
One hundred years after the Wright Brothers first took to the skies, a replica of their legendary airplane has failed to fly in downtown Chicago because there wasn’t enough wind.
Mike Gillian, who tried to pilot the replica on Saturday, said, “The Wrights flew into a 25-mph wind. I think we could have flown if we had that.”
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ATMs can take a lot of punishment – but they’re no match for a backhoe.
That was the case in Snellville, Ga., where crooks drove one of the giant earth-moving vehicles through the wall of a Chevron service station, ripped the ATM from its socket and drove away.
“Those are some crazy sons of guns. But they are not that crazy, because they got away,” customer Steve Smith said.
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The Gay Softball World Series in Washington, D.C., has erupted in controversy after a losing team accused another team of loading its roster with too many straight players.
The Houston Force wants the Atlanta Power disqualified for having two more straight guys on its team than the rules allow.
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Is he the Wal-Mart winker or the Wal-Mart pervert?
That’s what a court in Bellefonte, S.D., must determine about David Jones, 25, after two women say he winked at them at the store – with his penis exposed.
Jones is now charged with indecent exposure and open lewdness.
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A Buddhist priest dubbed the “marathon monk” has completed an astounding 24,800-mile running ritual in Japan after seven years.
Genshin Fujinami covered a distance equivalent to a trip round the globe, wearing only a white robe and straw sandals.
Since 1885, only 46 other so-called “marathon monks” of the Tendai sect have lived through the ritual, which dates to the 8th century and is believed to be a path to enlightenment.
“I entrusted everything to God. I am satisfied,” Fujinami said. Bill Hoffmann, Wire Services