Jeremiah was a bullfrog: Scooter joyrides & sea monsters
If you thought seniors behind the wheel were dangerous, then how about 90-year-old Stanley Murphy who got lost trying to buy a newspaper and ended up taking his scooter on a harrowing ride down a 110-kilometre highway near Shoreham, England. (The Daily Telegraph)
Staying on the roads, a 13-year-old in China stole a bus and took it on a journey of destruction that left 10 cars and a number of lightpoles damaged. Take that Chinese government! (ABC)
We may have to start paying to use the washroom while flying. What’s next charging us for checking bags or requesting a window seat . . . oh wait, they already do that. (Reuters)
After a nine-year adventure a German Shephard in Florida felt it was time return home. (UPI)
Baltimore police have arrested a McDonald’s cashier who allegedly sold them marijuana during a sting operation at the restaurant. Do you want fries with that? (Sky News)
A Belarussian scientist has come up with the strangest recession remedy yet: Creating and exporting edible frogs. (ABC)
This photograph has people in Borneo wondering if there really is a 100-foot sea monster patrolling their rivers:
I like ping pong too but this celebration from a Feb. 27 professional college game is a little over the top:
Finally, journalist and former Miss Dakota Roxana Saberi has been arrested while working in Iraq after buying a bottle of wine. Clearly the U.S. invasion has helped ease the laws in the country. (Huffington Post)
Jeremiah was a bullfrog is The Reflector’s weekly recap of the strange, the unexplained and the downright stupid headlines from around the world