Train on German national railway halted to fix beer tap

This is pretty hilarious and awesome. Apparently a train taking soccer fans to Hamburg stopped for nearly a half hour because the beer tap malfunctioned. Federal police said Monday that the beer tap failed aboard a special train carrying Bayer Leverkusen fans to Hamburg on Saturday. The fault...

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Dog performs Heimlich maneuver

A dog saved its owner's life when she started choking by performing the Heimlich on her: Toby, a 2-year-old golden retriever, saw his owner choking on a piece of fruit and began jumping up and down on the woman's chest. The dog's owner believes the dog was trying to perform the Heimlich maneuver...

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Cat called 911 to save its owner

After a holiday hiatus, I return with a bizarre story from an AP article. Police aren't sure how else to explain it. But when an officer walked into an apartment Thursday night to answer a 911 call, an orange-and-tan striped cat was lying by a telephone on the living room floor. The cat's owner,...

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Pilot lands plane with busted landing gear

The Mercury News has an article describing a situation where a plane took off from Burbank and was headed for New York's Kennedy International Airport. Aboard the plane, passengers first learned of the problem 10 to 15 minutes into the flight when Burke announced that the plane had a problem...

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