‘Bear at door’: Canadian postman has fair excuse for failing to deliver parcel

‘Bear at door’: Canadian postman has fair excuse for failing to deliver parcel. A mail carrier in British Columbia, Canada, has been unable to deliver a package to a house – and it's all because of a bear on the prowl.

Matthew Fane, from a Vancouver suburb, tweeted Wednesday a photo of a note left for him by a Canada Post worker indicating that the reason he was unable to drop off a parcel was because there was a 'bear at door.'

A picture of the decent-sized black mammal has since surfaced to prove the claim, showing the grizzly scarily lurking out front of the house.

Dead girl wakes up in coffin during her funeral in Philippines [VIDEO]

Dead girl wakes up in coffin during her funeral in Philippines. A THREE-year-old girl, who was pronounced dead after a fever and who awoke in a coffin during her funeral ceremony, has reportedly died in hospital.

Dr Mary Silyne Asor-Cabahug, the Municipal Health Officer of Aurora, used a cardiac monitor to assess the condition of the girl who came back to life at her own funeral. She found no signs of life and confirmed that the child is dead, Noypistuff reported.

Abu Dhabi is set to build the world’s first underground park, Al Fayah Park, in the desert

Abu Dhabi is set to build the world’s first underground park, Al Fayah Park, in the desert. What happens when one of the richest countries in the world sits in the middle of a desert? They go underground.

The urban planners of Abu Dhabi asked London design studio, Heatherwick, to create a park that would provide some relief for its residents from the oppressing heat and as a place to wind down.

Spread over 1.3 million square feet, Al Fayah Park will look like a 65 foot high mound of earth from the outside. Using the natural landscape as inspiration, Heatherwick studied the surrounding desert to come up with their one of a kind design.

Waffle House Denies Waitress $1,000 Tip

 

Waffle House Denies Waitress $1,000 Tip. During a night shift on Mother's Day in North Carolina, the Waffle House waitress received an extraordinary tip from a humble benefactor. The man, who has not been named, wanted to leave $1,000 for Brown, and an additional $500 he wanted her to share with another customer in the Raleigh restaurant, local outlet The News & Observer reports.

So the benevolent patron wrote $1,500 on the tip line on his receipt before leaving. Brown was overjoyed to receive the gift, until she learned that it was not in Waffle House's policy to let her keep such a generous tip.

As Waffle House policy dictates, large tips charged on a credit card are automatically returned to the customer.

Man catches baby who fell from window China

Man catches baby who fell from window China. Amazing footage has emerged of a man catching a baby who fell from a second-story window in China.

The man was walking past the building during a thunderstorm when he spotted the 1-year-old, who had climbed onto a window ledge.

Mom bites dog to save daughter during attack

Mom bites dog to save daughter during attack.

ALVIN, Texas – A Texas mother let her animal instincts take over when a dog attacked her two-year-old daughter. “You do whatever you can,” mother Chelsi Camp told KHOU.com. “I don’t have physical strength at my side.”

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The attacked happened in March at the family’s apartment. The family agreed to watch a friend’s pit bull. The dog seemed nice, Camp said, until he smelled two-year-old Kenzi.

Man inserts GPS device in her wife's body through surgery

The woman says her husband inserted a tracking device inside her body after a surgery to track her. A woman in Lahore sought police assistance against her husband who had her tracked through an electronic Global Positioning System (GPS) device.

As per details, a resident of Lahore in Pakistan appeared before the police and requested to register a case against her husband.

Baby born with 4 feet 4 hands China

Baby born with 4 feet 4 hands China. A baby born with four arms and four legs had his extra limbs surgically removed on Friday.

The boy, born April 2 in China's Guangdong Province, is in stable condition after the surgery, the Global Times reports.

Yu Jiakang, chief surgeon at Guangzhou Women and Children's Medical Center, told the Yangcheng Evening News that the baby was born joined at the torso to a headless parasitic twin.

Convicted cannibal arrested for eating human flesh in Pakistan

Convicted cannibal arrested for eating human flesh in Bhakkar District, in the Punjab province of Pakistan. The district wPakistan. A man who had earlier been convicted for cannibalism along with his brother was once again arrested by police on Monday.

Police conducted a raid at the residence of Arif and Zaman on a tip off from neighbours and recovered the head of a child. Arif was arrested while Zaman remains at large and police are conducted raids for his arrest.

Woman frozen alive by hospital

Woman frozen alive by hospital. A California appeals court has revived a malpractice suit brought by the family of an 80-year-old grandmother they claim was prematurely declared dead by doctors then frozen alive inside a body bag in the hospital's morgue.

A lower-court judge had dismissed the lawsuit brought in May 2012 by relatives of Maria de Jesus Arroyo against White Memorial Hospital in Los Angeles over the woman's 2010 death, on grounds that the statute of limitations had lapsed.

But a three-judge panel of a state appeals court sided with the family on Wednesday in agreeing they could not have known how Arroyo was alleged to have died until it was brought to light by a pathologist in an expert opinion he gave in December 2011.

Teen tattoos McDonald’s receipt

Teen tattoos McDonald’s receipt. 18-year-old Stian Ytterdahl from Lørenskog got his McDonald's receipt tattooed on his forearm, Gawker reports. That’s right, his receipt.

The teen, who friends say is “a little too active” with the ladies, was he had to choose between two tattoos; 1. A Barbie tattoo on his buttocks or 2.A tattoo of his McDonald’s receipt on his forearm.

Hmm…tough choice. A Barbie tattoo, on my butt, where I can easily hide it so no one knows, or the receipt of what I ate today permanently inked on my forearm. A no-brainer, right?

The teen decided on the latter, and the tattoo parlour who inked Ytterdahl, Sabelink Tattoo, posted the above photo and caption to their Facebook page.

The internet rolls out its latest craze the sellotape selfie

The internet rolls out its latest craze the sellotape selfie. Another day, another selfie craze, though we certainly hope this one won't stick around for long.

'Selloptape selfies' are popping up all over Facebook, where thousands of people have been wrapping clear tape around their face to make themselves look like grotesque ogres.

They then upload their bizarre picture to Facebook and nominate a friend to take part in the challenge as well.
The craze, which was launched on Wednesday, quickly went viral with more than 50,000 people liking the Sellotape selfie page in the first 24 hours.

Man returns wallet with $4,800 in cash

Jersey City postal carrier Macario "Mark" Panuil, left, and Rev. Dr. Rudolph Daniels Sr., president of the Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance of Jersey City and retired Pastor of Claremont-Lafayette United Presbyterian Church, pose for a photo after a ceremony on Thursday, March 13, 2014, at the Bergen South Station Post Office where Panuil was recognized by United States Postal Service officials for his honesty. Panuil found a wallet containing $4,800 while delivering mail on his carrier route and returned it to the reverend, its rightful owner. (Reena Rose Sibayan/The Jersey Journal/Landov)

Man returns wallet with $4,800 in cash. New Jersey resident Marcario Panuil faced the real-life dilemma when he found $4,800 in a lost wallet on the sidewalk and decided to return the wallet and its contents to their rightful owner.

To get a sense of how unusual his selfless deed is, just scan the news and observe the number of stories about stolen wallets. Some estimates suggest that 1,000 wallets are stolen in the U.S. alone every two minutes. And an estimated 9 million Americans are victims of identify theft each year, often resulting from stolen wallets or credit cards.

Man wakes up in body bag

Man wakes up in body bag. Even in the Bible Belt, coroners don't use the word "miracle" lightly.

But Holmes County, Mississippi, Coroner Dexter Howard has no qualms using the word for the resurrection, as it were, of Walter Williams, who was declared dead Wednesday night.

Howard received the call from Williams' hospice nurse, who told Howard that the 78-year-old had passed away. A family member called as well, saying the same, Howard said.

Howard and Byron Porter from Porter & Sons Funeral Home in Lexington, Mississippi, drove to Williams' home to collect the body for funeral preparations. Howard checked Williams' pulse about 9 p.m. and pronounced him dead.

Man wakes up in body bag

Man wakes up in body bag. Workers at a Mississippi funeral home say they found a man alive and kicking when they opened a body bag.

Holmes County Coroner Dexter Howard calls it a miracle that 78-year-old Walter Williams is alive.

The coroner was called to Williams’ home in Lexington, a community north of Jackson, where family members believed he had died.

Indian wedding guest steps in to marry bride after groom disappears

Indian wedding guest steps in to marry bride after groom disappears. When a groom in India failed to show up for his wedding this week, a guest stepped up to marry the bride instead.

P. Ponradha, 23 was set to be married to J. Sithiraivelu, 35, on Wednesday in the Tamil Nadu town of Lakshmimanagaram, according to The Star's translation of Tamil daily newspaper Malaysia Nanban.

The festivities were already starting on Tuesday evening when the bride's family learned the groom had vanished after an argument with his family. According to the Times of India, "the bride's family went into a frenzy, as a stopped marriage would affect the girl's future."

Woman trapped in toilet for takeoff

Woman trapped in toilet for takeoff. An aeroplane toilet can be unpleasant at the best of times, so it is the last place you would want to find yourself trapped come take-off. Unfortunately, this is exactly what happened to one unlucky young woman yesterday, according to the Daily Mail.

Ohio judge declares man legally dead

Ohio judge declares man legally dead. Donald Miller wasn’t walking like a zombie during his court appearance this week, nor groaning about brains — but the 61-year-old Ohio man is dead.

Despite his heartbeat and the functional limbs that helped him walk into the courthouse on Monday, a judge in Hancock County Probate Court told Miller he is legally a dead man and he will stay that way, after he disappeared more than 25 years ago, according to the Associated Press.

Woman 19 crucified to expel demons

Woman 19 crucified to expel demons, FOUR former members of the Seventh Day Adventist Church have gone on trial for torture over a violent, crucifixion-style exorcism carried out on a 19-year-old woman.

Three men and a woman are accused of tying up the Cameroonian teenager in the position of Christ on the cross and keeping her bound to a mattress for seven days in the belief that her body had been possessed by the devil.

Belgian man euthanized after sex change

Belgian man euthanized after sex change. A 44-year-old Belgian in distress after a failed sex change has been euthanised after doctors agreed to the mercy-killing on psychological grounds.

Nathan Verhelst died on Monday in a Brussels hospital surrounded by friends after requesting assistance to die in a case that has been highly publicised in Belgium, which became only the second country in the world after the Netherlands to legalise euthanasia in 2002.