Eddie Adcock wasn’t dreaming.
The veteran bluegrass banjo player was actually playing while doctors performed brain surgery to try and find the cause of a hand tremor that had affected his plucking style.
They used only a local anaesthetic on the 70-year-old so they could see how his brain responded while he played.
The surgery was a success and he should be back to gigging soon.
Tell him what he’s won, Johnny. A jail sentence!
A man angry that he had been turned down to appear on “The Price is Right” stormed into a San Francisco law office with a phony bomb strapped to his chest, forcing police to evacuate the building.
He was ultimately arrested. It was not clear what connection the law firm has to the show.
They should rename him My Drunk Little Pony.
An English pony named Fat Boy gorged on too many fermented apples that made him so drunk, he accidentally stumbled into a swimming pool.
Fire crews worked for two hours to hoist him out.
For at least two weeks, South Africa’s notorious Robben Island will once again become a charnel house.
Officials have had to close the island – which is where Nelson Mandela was jailed for 18 years – because it has become overrun by rabbits.
The little buggers are such a threat to the island’s vegetation that the only way to stop them is to cull the population, official say.
Man, they must feel stupid.
Two Indonesian men got tattoos of dragons on their faces after falling for a hoaxer who promised them jobs as government intelligence officers.
The two men believe the huckster is actually a mystic who put them into a trance.