Weird But True

Weird but true

He learned his lesson.

A California mom had her 11-year-old son spend three hours on a corner holding up a sign apologizing for being disrespectful to his teacher.

Cassandra Rollins, of Sacramento, said the youngster had called the teacher a “jackass.”

The boy said a girl in his class passed by in a car and “almost fell out the window laughing.”

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He was just trying to do his dad a favor.

Jordan Crouch, 8, of Bethel, Ohio, knew the family car needed gas. He used keys he’d found in his mother’s purse, backed out of the driveway and started heading for the gas station at 5 mph.

But he could barely reach the pedals and crashed into a telephone pole. He wasn’t hurt.

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Well, she was there anyway.

Marion Zock, 82, accidentally crashed her car through the front window of a hair salon in Plainfield Township, Mich.

Then, despite being “so embarrassed,” she hung around to get her hair done.

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Two brothers adopted by different families as young kids unknowingly lived across the street from each other in Corner Brook, Newfoundland, for two years.

Steven Goosney, 29 and Tommy Larkin, 30, had both registered to find their blood parents.

When Larkin got the address of his younger brother, he was stunned to find him just steps away.

They had never before spoken, but now “we’ve been seeing each other every day,” Goosney said.

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The exhibits in this museum are not only educational; they’re also tasty.

The Montreal Insectarium boasts hundreds of thousands of living and dead specimens.

And once a year the museum invites top chefs to cook up thousands of bugs for visitors to eat.