Police found two caimans---alligator-like reptiles--when they raided a drug house in Rio. One of the beasts was over 6 and a half feet long. Apparently, drug gangs in Rio use the animals to intimidate opponents and... to get rid of bodies. Not a bad idea... [BBC]
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September 04, 2008
August 28, 2008
Disposable diapers save lives
In a scene out of a Tom & Jerry cartoon, an 18-month-old boy climbed on a sofa and flopped out of a third floor apartment window in Recife, Brazil and lived to babble about it on account of his disposable diaper. Apparently, the diaper snagged on a security spike embedded in the concrete wall around his apartment building. The kid dangled from the spike for a moment, then "the diaper opened and the baby fell to the ground, but at a much slower speed," a police officer said. The kid was lucky that the diaper broke his fall and lucky he didn't hit one of those security spikes. The boy's father said "It wasn't the diaper that saved him, it was God." Who let the kid fall out of the window in the first place? Was that God too? [WTOP]
