Bizarre News - January 25, 2014

Greetings fellow Bizarros:

Problem: your wife is days away from giving birth but you live at the top of a hill in the middle of one of the snowiest winters in years and you're afraid your car won't make it up the hill in the snow.

Solution: Park at the bottom of the hill and keep a sled handy in case you need to slide your pregnant wife down the hill.

That was exactly the thinking of Philadelphia resident Fabian Bonanni when a particularly heavy snowstorm was predicted on the very day his wife Shirley was due.

Sure enough, as more than a foot of snow was falling on the northeast earlier this week Shirley went into labor.

"The contractions went from 10 minutes apart to, 'Oh, she's delivering right now,'" Bonanni said. "She couldn't walk; she was going into labor with every step."

As the neighbors looked on Fabian started pulling his wife through the snow on his sled, but things began moving faster that he anticipated.

Fabian delivered his daughter right there on the sled, scooping her into his arms as his wife braved the morning's subzero temperatures.

He took her into a neighbor's house where paramedics were called.

"It was like something you'd see in a movie," the neighbor said. "At first, I thought they were having fun. It's probably the strangest thing to ever happen here."

At last report the entire family was doing fine.

Bizarrely,
Lewis

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*-- Woman who swiped bagel shop cat says she did nothing wrong --*
NEW YORK - A woman accused of stealing a New York cat refused a deal to keep her out of jail, saying she feels she was in the right because the cat appeared abused. Nancy Glassman appeared Wednesday in Manhattan Criminal Court and declined the deal offered by prosecutors, which would have dismissed the charges in six months if she avoided further legal trouble, the New York Post reported Thursday. Glassman said she encountered the cat, Cosmo, at the Bagels & Co. shop Sept. 22. "I see the cat walk from these huge filthy dusty bags in the corner and this guy brooms him to the side," she said. "I saw this abuse then saw the cat's ears and thought what's wrong with him? This cat has a massive infection and needs help." Glassman took the cat to Animal Care and Control NYC. She said a pair of detectives soon visited her North Woodmere, N.Y., home and asked her to come down to the precinct and identify the cat. "They tricked me and when I got there they started reading me my rights," she said. Glassman spent the night in a holding cell before being arraigned on a burglary charge, which she said she will fight in court. "I don't believe I did anything wrong," she said outside the courthouse. "The whole world is saying how can we stop abuse, how can we stop the Adam Lanzas of the world but no one wants to get involved. I thought he needed help so I helped. It was automatic." A veterinarian determined the cat's sores and large ears were the result of a congenital defect and not caused by neglect. The animal was returned to his owner.


*-- Restaurant bill called diners 'Old Ladies' --*
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. - A California grandmother who went with a friend to a concert at a restaurant said she was shocked to find "Old Ladies" printed at the top of her bill. The woman, who did not want to be identified, said she and a friend won tickets to the concert at the Bull Shed Bar and Grill in Bakersfield and they discovered their bill for the food they ordered at the show had been labeled "Old Ladies," KERO-TV, Bakersfield, reported Thursday. "Not everyone is a stereotype person and I think the idea of tabling, tables with names that are appropriate for people, they can be at table one, table two, table three, whatever, but our table was named 'Old Ladies,'" she said. "At first, I was like 'oh, no way,' and my girlfriend that was with me, she thought it was funny and said it's funny, but to a point," the woman said. A picture of the bill posted on Facebook garnered numerous comments supportive of the women and critical of their server. Angel Gonzales, owner of the restaurant, said the server had only been working for a few weeks and was likely overwhelmed on the night of the concert. "This is not the way we run our business," he said. "That night, it was extremely busy. It was the night of the concert. It's not an excuse. It shouldn't of happened, no matter what," he said. Gonzales said he personally apologized to the woman. "The lady took the time to come down here to talk to me. I explained to her what happened and I apologized to her," he said.


*-- READER COMMENTS --*
Lewis, About the spanish man that shot himself in the pubic region. I say, "One less nut walking the streets... or uh... maybe 2 or 3 for that matter."
[If you know anybody with 3 "nuts" will you please ask him to write me?!]

Lewis. You recently told a reader, when he made a comment on gun control that "we're on marijuana now". Am I supposed to be lighting up before I read Bizarre News?
[Couldn't hurt.]

You do live in Chicago, Don't you? Have you seen the figures on Detroit now that they let people carry? All that marijuana will get you in a fight of any kind is Hurt. Dead. John
[I live in a suburb of Chicago, but even Chicago isn't as dangerous as Detroit...yet.]

It can't be argued that firearms SHOULD be kept out of the hands of some people. Otherwise, you'd be forcing them on people like him. He's lucky he was in Spain. If he'd been here, he'd have never made it to the hospital. -Wendy

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