The need for speed has no age limit.
A 96-year-old great-great-grandmother got to blaze around the Indianapolis Motor Speedway at 180 miles per hour in a race car driven by a veteran Indy racer.
“Oh, that was fun!” said Edith Pittenger of Muncie, who has been attending the Indianapolis 500 race during Memorial Day weekend since 1965.
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A veteran search-and-rescue dog in Missouri was fitted with a pacemaker after veterinarians discovered she had a heart blockage.
After Molly’s condition was reported in the Joplin Globe, money flooded in to pay for the $2,500 surgery.
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Nearly 12,000 high-school students in England received national standardized-test papers that had the answers printed on the back.
Officials blamed it on a printing error and claimed most students likely didn’t realize their good fortune.
The printing company, however, got a failing grade.
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Apparently, hot blood doesn’t always cool with age.
Two Italian retirees got into a fight over the last piece of cake at an all-you-can-eat buffet that ended when one stabbed the other in the chest.
Alfredo Mancini was arrested as he hobbled from the restaurant with a cane. His victim was treated at a hospital and released.
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Looks like the Cold War isn’t dead in Germany after all.
Several top government officials ended up locked in a former East German jail – now a museum – when the staff didn’t realize the officials were still inside after closing time.
“It was a misunderstanding,” said Siegfried Reiprich, deputy director of the former East Berlin jail where political opponents used to be interrogated.