QUIRKY WORLD ... Firefighters make clean sweep in chimney rescue
Capt Aaron Ernsberger says it took 30 minutes for firefighters to free the 23-year-old man.
He was taken to a hospital in stable condition.
Ernsberger says the man’s friends locked him out of the house as a prank.
The man thought he could get back inside through the chimney.
Firefighters were called to the scene shortly before 3am.
Phoenix Fire Department video shows firefighters chipping away at a chimney wall and pulling the man out.
The man, completely covered in soot, was able to walk but appeared to be limping.
A public arts trail featuring 70 sculptures of the Aardman Animations character Shaun the Sheep has been launched in Bristol.
The 5ft (1.5m) statues will be dotted around key landmarks across the city to raise money for a hospital charity.
Artist, designers and businesses such as DreamWorks, Thunderbirds, and Bagpuss creator Peter Firmin have decorated the sculptures.
Scottish Premiership striker Kris Boyd has become the latest in a line of footballers including Wayne Rooney and James McFadden to have a hair transplant.
The Kilmarnock star was inspired to have the procedure after seeing the transformation of McFadden, who he said was “a lot balder” than himself, with hair “worse than mine”.
He had 1,762 grafts implanted over the course of two days in the follicular unit extraction (FUE) hair transplant at The Glasgow Clinic.
Squirrels have shown scientists they really know how to “use their nuts” when searching for food.
A group of five grey squirrels surprised researchers with the speed at which they solved a puzzle involving hidden hazelnuts.
The intelligence test was in the form of a box with 12 sunken wells, four of which were hollow. Nuts were placed in the four hollow wells diagonally across from each other, so that the least efficient way to look for them was by going from well to well in a clockwise or anti-clockwise sequence.
Can an algorithm pass for an author? Can a robot rock the house? A series of contests at a New Hampshire college is about to find out.
Dartmouth College is seeking artificial intelligence algorithms that create “human-quality” short stories, sonnets and dance music sets which will be pitted against human-produced literature, poetry and music selections. The judges will not know which is which.
The goal is to determine whether people can distinguish between the two, and whether they might even prefer the computer-generated creativity.
“Historically, often when we have advances in artificial intelligence, people will always say ‘Well, a computer couldn’t paint a sunset,’ or ‘A computer couldn’t write a beautiful love sonnet’, but could they? That’s the question,” said Dan Rockmore, director of the Neukom Institute for Computational Science at Dartmouth.
A South Dakota centenarian taking part in this year’s National Senior Games is playing to win.
KSFY-TV reports that John Zilverberg of Highmore is the oldest athlete in the competition that’s being held through July 15 in the Minneapolis area. The South Dakota Senior Games association says Zilverberg will be 102 next month.
The retired rancher is competing in discus, shot put, javelin and softball throw events in the 100-plus age group. Zilverberg says he always tries to bring home gold medals.
Zilverberg says he took part in his first Senior Games in 1985. He says he can’t do any running and jumping events because one of his legs gave out, but he exercises to keep his arms in shape.
First they took the bras. Now they’ve come back for the panties.
Police say 140 pairs of underwear have been stolen from a northeast Pennsylvania store that’s been struck by four bra heists since February.
Police say the manager of the Victoria’s Secret store reported the theft but couldn’t provide a description of the suspect or surveillance video. The underpants are valued at $2,180 (€1,966).
Thieves have already stolen more than 150 bras, striking twice in February and once in March and April.
Surveillance video of the April theft showed two women stuffing bras into a bag. Police say the store never turned over video of three previous thefts.
The stolen bras are valued at more than $7,700.
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