Calgary police are looking for a man they believe is responsible for victimizing elderly Sikh men.
The culprit has been grabbing turbans worn by Sikh men and running away with the headgear.There have been three incidents over the last few weeks.
Danny Spohn’s family went through Saturday believing he’d been killed by a freight train in Camp Douglas, Wisconsin. 37-year-old Spohn was seen near some railroad tracks a half hour before the railroad notified the Sheriff’s Department of a mangled body on the tracks. Spohn’s brother-in-law, Chris Squires, even identified the body as Spohn’s.
The next day, Danny Spohn heard about his supposed death and phoned home to his surprized family who had to cancel funeral arrangements.
Boeing has admitted it is working on experimental anti-gravity projects that could overturn a century of conventional aerospace propulsion technology.
The company is trying to solicit the services of Dr Evgeny Podkletnov, a Russian scientist who claims he has developed anti-gravity devices in Russia and Finland.
Applications could include space launch systems, artificial gravity on spacecraft, aircraft propulsion and “fuelless” electricity generation.
Two inseparable sisters in their eighties died of natural causes at their home in Largo, Florida, on the same weekend of natural causes. One was found in bed, the other in a recliner.
Police in Englewood, Ohio, were persuing a group of suspects who fled in their van after attempting to rob a lawnmower store. Their car stopped after sideswiping a tree and the driver, Michael Ford, took off on foot.
Police chased the suspect on foot a short distance when Ford’s artificial leg fell off.
Ford and the other two men, who each have a criminal history, were apprehended and face criminal charges.
A Malaysian coffeeshop owner claims a treatment for hiccups left him partially deaf, damaged his throat and shortened his penis.
A hospital administered an intravenous drip and also gave him oral medication. In the next 10 days his left ear became covered in blisters, he could not eat or speak well and he partially lost use of his left arm and his penis was smaller. Fearing he may die, the man discharged himself.
The hospital says he had a case of shingles of the ear and throat, which caused his hiccups. They were giving him antiviral medicene when he discharged himself.
A worker in Hatfield, Pennsylvania, died after being submerged in a 1,200-gallon vat of liquefied chocolate.
Candy factory worker Yoni Cordon, 19, of Philadelphia, was discovered in the vat by co-workers at the Kargher Corporation on Tuesday. Cordon had been working on a platform near the vat’s opening prior to the accident.
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