Car crashes into second storey of Pennsylvania home and other oddities

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How did it end up there?

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That’s a question many asked after a car somehow ended up airborne and crashing into the second floor of a home in Decatur Township, Pa., causing significant damage to the building in the process.

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In a post featured on the Junction Fire Company, the incident took place on Aug. 6 after emergency personnel were called to a vehicle crash. When they arrived on the scene, they found the vehicle had lodged itself into the second storey of a residence with the driver out of the vehicle.

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A car crashing into a home typically happens on the ground level.

“Chief 17 arrived on scene within minutes to find one vehicle into the second floor with the patient out of the vehicle,” the post stated. “The rescues crew stabilized the house and helped the homeowners put a tarp on the hole due to upcoming storms.”

Fire officials said that the vehicle’s driver was transported to a hospital. It wasn’t revealed how the car managed to leave the road and launch itself into the second floor.

No estimates were given to the amount of damage caused.

WELL, THAT’S NOT SUCH A BRIGHT IDEA

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Not the brightest bulb of the bunch, that’s for sure.

A man from Zhejiang, China, learned the hard way not to participate in viral online challenges after getting the screw end of a light bulb stuck in his mouth.

The China Times reported that the man, known simply as Chen, ran into a fire station to get help. However, with his mouth covered with a T-shirt, it was hard for firefighters to hear what he was saying.

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Upon removing the shirt, firefighters from the Yuyao CIty Fire and Rescue Brigade found the LED bulb lodged in his mouth. The emergency responders tried to get yank the bulb out of Chen’s mouth, but after several attempts didn’t want to chance it by having glass shatter in his oral cavity.

Chen was taken to a hospital, where they had to use a mouth opener to pry his jaw on one side to remove the bulb. The relieved man told doctors he had the bulb stuck in there for two hours and tried to remove it himself, but wasn’t able to.

As to why Chen stuck a bulb in his mouth, he reportedly told doctors he saw someone try it in an online video and wanted to replicate it.

INFECTION FROM CAT BITE HAS SCIENTISTS SCRATCHING THEIR HEADS

Rabies this was not.

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A British man who was bitten by a stray cat contracted a bacterial infection that scientists had never seen before.

A case study published in Emerging Infectious Diseases said the 48-year-old man’s immune system couldn’t handle the infection. Eight hours after the bites, his hands were swollen enough to cause concern as the man took himself to a hospital for observation.

After getting a tetanus shot and having his wounds cleaned, the man was sent home with antibiotics. However, he was back in the emergency ward a day later after two fingers on his left hand were enlarged and both forearms were red and swollen.

Doctors removed the damaged tissue around the wounds on his arms, gave him more antibiotics and sent him home. He soon recovered.

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WOMAN ALLEGEDLY TRIES TO HIRE HIT MAN TO OFF TODDLER

There must be better ways to deal with an unruly child. Trying to hire a hit man is not one of them.

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An 18-year-old woman from Miami was arrested on charges of solicitation of murder and unlawful use of a communications device after allegedly trying to hire a hit man to kill her three-year-old son, The Associated Press reported.

Cops said the woman visited a fake website used to assist law enforcement in attempting to have her son “taken away, far, far, far away and possibly be killed, but ASAP.” Authorities said the woman was willing to shell out $3,000.

On the website, the woman posted that she wanted “to get something done once and for all,” according to Miami-Dade police. The woman listed the address where the boy lived with his grandmother, a photo of her son and her phone number.

The website administrator notified cops of the request and they found the woman utilizing the provided phone number and IP address.

The boy’s grandmother told cops her daughter moved out in May and she regularly FaceTimed her child. Upon arrest, the woman reportedly confessed to wanting to hire a hit man.

The mother was released from jail after posting $15,000 bail. A judge ordered her to not contact her son.

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