A man suspected of trying to steal clothes had to be freed by
firefighters after becoming trapped in a charity bin at St Stephen's
Shopping Center in Hull.
A member of the public alerted security at the shopping center when they
heard banging coming from the bin at about 4.30am on Friday morning.
Because of the way the bins close, they were unable to reach in and get the man out themselves.
In the end, emergency services had to free the suspect from the British Heart Foundation recycling bin using a disc grinder.
Police also attended and an arrest was made.
Shopping center manager Jim Harris said: "It would appear some individual who was trying to steal clothes out of the bin had fallen in.
A court has heard how a man whose wife took action to evict him from
their home in Dumfries, Scotland, retaliated by putting rats in the
attic.
Lee Thompson, 42, bought the animals at a pet shop knowing his wife had a
phobia about them.
He admitted behaving in a manner likely to cause fear or alarm at the
house in May last year.
An unusual self-amputating, vertical swimming, serpent-like marine
specimen has washed up on Aramoana Spit at the entrance to Otago Harbour
in Dunedin, New Zealand.
Department of Conservation service manager David Agnew said he was
called by resident Don Gibbs, who discovered the 3m-long fish. He had
never seen anything like it in his 20 years with DoC.
University of Otago New Zealand Marine Studies Center manager Tessa Mills confirmed it was an "oarfish". 
Police did not arrest the family of six which included a couple with
their four children less than six years old. Instead police gave them a
warning and educated the family on the law.
"I didn't see any injuries, I did notice all four would not leave each
other," said Beitzel. "They were huddled together, they were scared. 
His last run on the sled was on December 10, 1954. Increasing the rocket power behind him, he accelerated to 1,017 kph (632 mph) in five seconds, then came to a complete stop in less than two seconds. That meant more than 40 Gs, and that he momentarily weighed 3,084 kg (6,800 lbs). Emergency workers were standing by to rush him to hospital; all the blood vessels in his eyes had burst, leaving him blind – he would recover his sight later, but he’d also have two black eyes due to the forward motion of his eyes inside his head. He’d cracked a few ribs and broken both wrists, but he survived.Incidentally, Stapp’s ride also gave us what we now know as Murphy’s Law.
Instead of reporting sexual abuse, employees at this Florida school
developed a “safety plan” for a 12-year-old victim — not to wear
revealing clothes and to avoid other actions that might tempt her
abuser.
A Florida man is being held with no bond after firing his gun outside his home, police said.
Two men have been hospitalized in Tulsa, Oklahoma, after an alcohol-fueled argument over whether iPhones are better than Android
phones.
A man from Betsy Layne, (population 688), in Floyd County, Kentucky, has
been arrested on a litany of charges after police say he was found
under the influence while riding a horse.
Kentucky State Police responded to a call on Monday evening about an
intoxicated horse rider on US 23. When they arrived, they found Michael Kimmel, 40, of Betsy Layne, matching the description.
"We go out driving around the neighborhood, knocking on a few doors and
whistling around and then I came back and got to the point where I'm
like 'I'm going to have to call the pound' or something because either
she's been snatched or she's just gone complete walkabout," he said.
He'd gone to a quiet place upstairs to call the SPCA when he looked out
the window and saw something he didn't expect.
Polly was sitting nonchalantly in a triangular patch of shade on the neighboring roof. 
“When I found them on the snow they seemed to be dead, but when I put
them in my hand I found that they were alive.”
At first he thought that they had perhaps crawled though the snow from
the ground beneath, but on reflection, he rejected this idea.
“In many places, the snow thickness was between half a meter and a meter
and I think they would have problems crawling through the cold snow.” 
A hippopotamus has been spotted swimming through the boating pond at Bushy Park in Richmond, south west London. 
“This beaver has been extremely unlucky,” she said. “I hope it’s not something that happens very often for the beavers' sake.”
Johansen said that beavers normally have an uncanny ability to predict when and where a tree is likely to fall.
“When the tree is falling they have to jump aside so the tree doesn’t hit them.
“I have seen many beavers, but I have never seen such a thing,” he said.
Beavers sometimes fell trees to provide logs to dam the rivers where
they live, and sometimes for tree bark and cambium tissue to eat.
In 2014, another beaver was found starved to death in southern Norway,
after its tail was trapped under a fallen tree.
A fearless raccoon climbed more than 200 meters (700 feet) up a tower crane in Toronto, Canada.
Rob MacFarlane spotted the raccoon clutching a ladder, looking a little apprehensive, with his eyes wide open.
MacFarlane said that it then went back down.
The raccoon had made the 213-metre climb overnight and was waiting for MacFarlane when he arrived at work.
