Lending new meaning to the 1977 comedy title “High Anxiety,” a pilot discovered a 41/2-foot snake peering out at him from the instrument panel of his Piper Cherokee – at 3,000 feet.
“Nothing in the manuals described anything like this,” said Monty Coles, who grabbed the snake with one hand while guiding the plane to a safe landing with the other.
And speaking of snakes, an Indian woman who fell in love with a snake has reportedly married the reptile at a traditional Hindu wedding celebrated by 2,000 guests in India’s Orissa state.
Bimbala Das wore a silk saree for the ceremony at Atala village near the Orissa state capital Bhubaneswar.
Priests chanted mantras to seal the union, but the snake failed to come out of a nearby ant hill where it lives. A brass replica snake stood in.
A Michigan man who stuffed a dead mouse into his burrito in a botched extortion attempt was sentenced to 16 to 30 months.
Ryan Daniel Goff, 20, pleaded guilty last month to a felony count of attempted false pretenses.
Sheriff’s investigators said Goff complained to a Taco Bell employee in January that his burrito tasted “funny.”
Someone had a very profitable trip to the toilet.
A tax collector in the southern Austrian city of Graz accidentally left $28,000 in cash in a black attache case he placed on top of a toilet in the men’s room of a local restaurant, police said.
By the time he realized it was missing and went back, the cash was gone, authorities said.
Brazilian police are investigating how an accused drug kingpin dropped by a local prison to take part in a sermon last week – and then strolled out the front door.
Alberico Medeiros spoke during a Pentecostal sermon in front of 480 inmates about his years as a drug trafficker. He says he has since become religious and abandoned his criminal ways.
Medeiros, who has spent time in Rio de Janeiro’s maximum security jail, faces trial on 12 counts of trafficking.