Talk about the catch of the day!
A 4-foot-long sturgeon leaped out of the water and slammed into a jet skier, knocking him unconscious and into the Suwannee River in Wildwood, Fla.
The man’s girlfriend rushed to his side and kept his head above water until he could be pulled aboard a passing boat.
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A judge in Tacoma, Wash., was officially admonished by a state panel for ordering 100 people in her courtroom to cheer for the Super Bowl-bound Seattle Seahawks before she handed down a manslaughter sentence in February.
Pierce County Judge Beverly Grant said she thought the “Go Seahawks” chant would defuse tension in her courtroom.
The panel disagreed, quoting an appalled courtroom observer who said, “One family is seeing a son go off to prison and one family is here to find justice for their [murdered] loved one . . . Do you think they want to root for the Seahawks?”
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An 85-year-old woman was accidentally locked in the vault of a Swiss bank – and not discovered for four hours.
She had gone into the vault late in the afternoon to look over documents and was so quiet employees forgot all about her when they locked up for the night.
She was freed after she set off motion detectors.
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A Las Vegas lawyer representing an accused kidnapper was ordered to take a blood-alcohol test after he showed up for trial 90 minutes late and slurring his words.
The judge later declared a mistrial after telling the attorney, “I don’t think you can tell a straight story because you are intoxicated.”
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A mumbling man who dialed a wrong number triggered a bomb scare in a Chemnitz, Germany, bank.
Believing he had reached a repair shop, he told the woman who answered his call that he had sent a pumpe (pump) by express mail.
But the bank staffer thought he said bombe and called police.