Real Life Funny Odd Stuff

Police in Milwaukee say a teenage boy has survived after being dumped into the back of a recycling truck and compacted. The 14-year-old had been hiding in a recycling bin after running away from a boot camp-style school and was discovered at a recycling centre.


US authorities say Galen Winchell set fire to his Georgia home as he cleaned cobwebs from eaves with a blowtorch. He noticed the blaze when he saw smoke pouring from the attic. Though the fire was confined to one area, the entire house had smoke and water damage.


A nine-year-old Japanese boy drove a car alone for three kilometres to see his grandmother, saying he was confident at the wheel after playing video games, police said. "I learned from playing video games at arcades and watching my father drive," the boy said.


Police in Germany are hunting a thief with no arms who walked out of a shop with a 24-inch TV. Two accomplices used clamps to fix the TV to his body before helping him out of the store in Munich. Staff did not realise what had happened until they looked back at CCTV recordings.


A recent Bulgarian immigrant found $US7,500 ($A11,213) in a shoe box on her first day on the job last week at a Goodwill store near St Louis in Glen Carbon, Illinois. Teodora Petrova turned the money over to a manager of the nonprofit charity.


A Ukrainian woman survived a 100-metre plunge from her ninth-floor flat - into a giant vat of grapes. Ludmilla Vasko, 29, fell from the balcony of her apartment into the grapes, harvested from the vineyard below