Like mother, like daughter.
That’s the case in Utah, where Chelsee Bushman, 22, gave birth to a 3-pound baby daughter and, just 90 minutes later, her mom, Sherri Callister, 42, gave birth to a 5-pound, 8-ounce son – assisted by the same nurses in the same room at Utah Valley Regional Medical Center.
“Just finding out my mom was pregnant was a big surprise,” said Bushman, of Springville.
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South Dakota bar owners may want to install hitching posts and bike racks out front – now that a new law has been enacted exempting horses and bikes from drunken-driving laws.
“If I’m going down the road with my family, I’d much prefer to have a drunk on a Schwinn coming at me than a drunk in a Chevy,” said Sen. Lee Schoenbeck.
But Sen. John Koskan, who objected to the bill, fumed, “Just because it’s a horse doesn’t mean it’s safe to be out on the road.”
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Drunk drivers in Taiwan can now choose their penalty: Pay a fine or play mahjong with the elderly.
Prosecutors say playing the popular tile game with token money is teaching offenders to love and care for senior citizens.
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There’s a morbid new craze sweeping Japan – mourners snapping photos of the dead with their cellphone cameras.
“I get the sense that people no longer respect the dead. It’s disturbing,” a funeral director told the Mainichi Shimbun newspaper.
But social commentator Toru Takeda explained, “Some can’t grasp ‘reality’ unless they take a photo and share it with others. It comes from a desire to keep a strong bond with the deceased.”
Sorry, Toru, but it gives us here at Weird But True a case of the creeps.
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How did William Grzeskowiak allegedly steal $100,000. In a word, patiently.
Officials say the Canberra, Australia, crook, who worked at a mint, smuggled it out bit by bit by hiding $2 coins in his boots and lunch box.
He was busted after a local businessman alerted cops about a man trying to exchange huge amounts of $2 coins.