HOW BIZARRE NEWS (07/20/09)

A WOMAN IN NORTH CAROLINA PAID $4,000 FOR A PUPPY WITH FIVE LEGS:

Recently, 45-year-old Allyson Siegel of Charlotte, North Carolina, heard about a FIVE-LEGGED Chihuahua-Terrier puppy named Lilly that was going to be sold for $3,000 to an animal "freak show" on Coney Island.

But Allyson, who is an animal lover, just couldn't stand the thought of the Lilly being sent to a sideshow for deformed animals. So she shelled out $4,000 and bought Lilly herself.

In two weeks, Lilly will undergo surgery to remove her fifth leg, which hangs between her two back legs and is completely without feeling. (Glad she did it first, becuase I was about to head to the bank for some cash - Nazzy)

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ONE UNDERCOVER COP ACCIDENTALLY ARRESTED ANOTHER UNDERCOVER COP FOR SELLING HIM DRUGS:

Last week, undercover police officers in Statesville, North Carolina were working a weeklong drug case when they met someone who offered to sell them a small amount of marijuana. So the cops met the guy in a parking lot and made the deal, before arresting him on drug charges. But get this . . .

It turns out the guy they arrested was actually a police deputy with the Iredell County Sheriff's Office . . . who was ALSO working an undercover drug case.

According to a spokesman for the Iredell County Sheriff's Office, quote, "We had several large-scale operations going on at once, and the wires got crossed on this one." (Statesville Record & Landmark)

(--First of all, since when is targeting small-time dealers considered a "large-scale operation"? And, secondly, if there's a better way to waste tax dollars than this nonsense, I can't imagine what it would be.)

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A WOMAN'S BRAIN ANEURYSM WAS DIAGNOSED BY A DOG LICKING HER FACE???

Last October, 56-year-old Mary Phillips showed up for her nursing job at the BJC Hospice in St. Louis, and experienced a sudden crippling headache in her right temple. She collapsed, and her co-workers begged her to go to the emergency room, but Mary refused. That is, until her co-worker's dog, a Maltese-Poodle mix named Jacque Pierre, walked into the room and LICKED Mary on the right temple.

To Mary, this was a clear sign that something was seriously wrong. So Mary went to the hospital where she was diagnosed with a life-threatening BRAIN ANEURYSM about the size of a walnut, which had already started leaking into her blood stream.

According to Mary's doctor, "The concern with a ruptured aneurysm is that it could re-rupture which could be fatal. So it's urgent to get it treated before that happens. "And even those that are not fatal can cause permanent problems such as vision loss, language problems, paralysis and cognitive impairment."

In other words, Jacque Pierre saved Mary's life. (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)

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BRICKS ON THE BUS??

A Chinese bus company is equipping its vehicles with bricks for passengers to use to break windows in an emergency. The bricks, painted yellow with "emergency use" written on both sides, are stored under the driver's seat and under a rear seat.

"It's easy for passengers to spot them, and use them to break the window if something happened," said a spokesman for the Harbin Public Transport Company.

The company had stopped providing passengers with safety hammers to break windows as they were always being stolen. "We don't think anybody will be interested in stealing bricks," the spokesman added.

Bricks have so far been installed on several bus routes in a pilot scheme in Harbin, the capital of Heilongjiang province, reports Northeast Network. But the company says it will equip all 700 of its buses with the bricks if feedback from passengers is positive.