Just in time for the Masters, an 85-year-old legally blind man made a hole in one in Green Valley, Ariz.
Robert Dunham, who served in World War II, was playing with a group of fellow veterans when he made the tremendous shot on a par-3 hole.
Even though his friends cheered and congratulated him, he didn’t really believe it.
“I thought they were kidding me,” he said.
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A jury in Los Angeles acquitted a man of smuggling endangered iguanas in his hollowed-out prosthetic leg, but convicted him of illegal possession.
Jereme James was charged with stealing Fiji Island iguanas.
James admitted selling three animals for $32,000 and four more were found in his home when cops executed a search warrant.
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These aren’t your usual Crime Stoppers calls.
The police in Spokane, Wash., reported their anonymous tip line has been receiving calls about anything but crime.
Residents have called and asked what businesses are open on holidays, how long it takes to thaw a 12-pound turkey, what boating regulations are and how long to wait after a death to read a will.
The hot line gets about a dozen calls a day, but it is not clear how many are actually crime-related.
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A farmer in Bulgaria blamed his wife for not giving him any children, so he traded her to a friend for a goat.
Stoil Panayotov made a deal with another farmer in front of a stunned crowd at a livestock market, giving up his wife in exchange for a goat with three offspring.
Panayotov, 54, said his wife agreed to the deal and he explained his logic for the swap.
“The goat has given birth to three kids and my wife to none,” he said.
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Police were called to control an unruly crowd at a Wilmington, NC, gas station after customers realized one of the pumps was set at 35 cents a gallon.
Hundreds of motorists descended on the BP station for the deeply discounted gas, causing a massive traffic backup on the roads leading to the station.
The price was supposed $3.35 a gallon.