Bizarre News Stories

I was bored this morning so for any of you who like bizarre news stories, here's a couple I came across on the AP wire at work...

HIGHWAY HORROR
(Atascadero, California-AP) -- Three people are dead after their
car struck a horse that fell out of a trailer onto a California
highway. Witnesses say the rear door of the trailer swung open and the horse slipped out and fell to the ground.

At least two cars swerved out of the way before the horse
apparently stood up and went through the windshield of a Toyota
Tercel, ripping off its roof.

The car then crossed over oncoming lanes of traffic and plunged
down a 13-foot embankment.

Authorities are searching for the trailer's driver, who left the
scene of the accident some 160 miles northwest of Los Angeles.
Police say the driver could face hit-and-run charges.


DIAMOND PROMOTION TURNS DEADLY
(Lake Buena Vista, Florida-AP) -- No word on what caused a Florida woman to collapse and die while taking part in a
minor-league baseball promotion.

The object of the promotion was to run across a ballpark in
search of a hidden diamond.

Twenty-eight-year-old Victoria Lampe took part in the promotion
after Friday night's game between the Orlando Rays and the
Jacksonville Suns.

A spokesman for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays says Lampe collapsed
face first just as she got to the infield, where a diamond was
hidden in a small box.


DEATH BY TOMATO PASTE
(taken from our 11PM Newscast at the station I work at)

A MAN IS DEAD AFTER A HORRIBLE ACCIDENT AT THE RIO BRAVO TOMATO COMPANY. THE MAN WAS CRUSHED BY 3-THOUSAND POUNDS OF TOMATO PASTE. IT HAPPENED JUST AFTER NOON TODAY AT THE TOMATO COMPANY OFF HIGHWAY 58 AND OLD TRACY ROAD. OFFICIALS SAY 42 YEAR OLD JESUS GABRIEL MEZA OF WASCO WAS CLEANING UP A STORAGE AREA IN THE PLANT WHEN A CRATE CONTAINING THREE THOUSAND POUNDS OF TOMATO PASTE EXPLODED. THE EXPLOSION CAUSED *OTHER* CRATES TO FALL IN A DOMINO EFFECT...AND AT LEAST ONE CRATE FELL DIRECTLY ON TOP OF MEZA...CRUSHING HIM. OFFICIALS ARE TRYING TO DETERMINE WHAT EXACTLY *CAUSED* THE ONE CRATE TO EXPLODE.

Too much time...

Those are some amazing storys... can you image driving down the road and then all of a sudden you have a horse comming at you at over 70 MPH... that would just scare the crap out of you... and i cant believe that the guy just continued driving... im sure he had to of noticed the horse not boing there and screatching of tires and whatnot.... i dont really want to say that it is funny, but in a way it is... stuff like that just amazes me... lol :D

I think there's a whole site who has all those bizzare news stories.

I know some facts of life:

1: If you fall down the stairs in your own house, you are prompted to call 911 yerself....

2: Life is a bitch, then you inherit.....Or sumthin.

3: People are strangers, if they don't already know each others.

4: Sweden is a country......

:D :D :D Bored? Nah..........!

I wish I could *show* you the video of one story I saw on our satellite feeds recently. It was so graphic that we couldn't air it on our station, but let me give you a nice descriptive text version... (Note that this was the type of video where you find yourself yelling out-loud in the moment because it's just so shocking and rarely seen)

This was all captured by a news helicopter following a high-speed chase. An armed robbery suspect was identified by police in the Los Angeles area. When the cops tried to pull the suspect over, a high speed chase ensued. The suspect fled from city streets onto the freeway where speeds reached nearly 100 MPH. As the suspect was weaving recklessly in and out of traffic, his Lincoln Navigator clipped the back-end of another vehicle which caused the suspect to lose control of his SUV. The vehicle swerved sharply and then began to roll, flipping multiple times while traveling at a high rate of speed. The suspect was not wearing a seatbelt and was immediately ejected from the vehicle, hurled 25 feet into the air, landing directly in the middle of the opposite side of the highway where oncoming traffic proceeded to run over the man causing yet another set of accidents as 2 cars plowed over the already mangled suspect lying in the road!

OUCH!~ Did he fly out of the windshield too?

How come whenever i see the *stars*, i picture Nicholas Cage putting his hands up to his temples and quoting whatever is in between the stars like he did in Gone in 60 Second - 'let's ride'?