offbeat
- A Student Kicked A Field Goal To Win A Car, The Dealership Tried To Weasel Out Of Itjalopnik.com A Student Kicked A Field Goal To Win A Car, The Dealership Tried To Weasel Out Of It
The dealership eventually gave in, but it put up a big fight over a fraction of a second delay.
A Purdue University student thought he kicked his way to a two-year car lease for making three field goals in a contest held during the Boilermakers’ season opener in West Lafayette. However, the dealership sponsoring the giveaway later reneged on the deal because of a technical. The final kick – a 40-yarder – left his foot just a split second too late on August 31. Car dealerships really cannot help but be bastards, can they?
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- A British man was found alive after his mother thought she’d had him cremated.theweek.com It must be true ... I read it in the tabloids
A British man was found alive after his mother thought she’d had him cremated.
- Sheriff's deputies corral wayward kangaroo near pool at Florida apartment complexmynorthwest.com Sheriff's deputies corral wayward kangaroo near pool at Florida apartment complex
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — A wayward kangaroo was corralled safely by sheriff's deputies Thursday after it was spotted hopping around the pool area of a Florida
- Mouse secretly filmed tidying man’s shed every nightwww.theguardian.com Mouse secretly filmed tidying man’s shed every night
Photographer who noticed his items were mysteriously moving around discovered an industrious rodent was organising his workbench
- Two People were spotted 'fighting in the middle of a Poole road over the custody of a duck'www.bournemouthecho.co.uk Man and woman seen 'fighting in the street over a duck'
POLICE called to Poole Road as a resident wrestled with a man in the middle of the road over the custody of a duck.
