Cornell University wants to keep students at the high-pressure Ivy League school from killing themselves — so it asked upstate Ithaca town officials for permission to install suicide nets under bridges near campus.
But the town is balking at the plan for fear jumpers will injure themselves falling into the nets and sue.
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Game, set, mismatch!
A tennis player wound up committing a major fault when she tried to reach a tournament in Carlsbad, Calif., and instead flew into Carlsbad, NM.
Bojana Jovanovski, of Serbia, didn’t realize she was in the wrong town until someone saw she was the only person waiting outside the tiny local airport and spoke to her.
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An Italian man was struck and killed by a bolt of lightning while trying to spread his brother’s ashes atop a mountain in the Alps.
The 41-year-old mourner climbed the mountain because it had been one of his sibling’s favorite places to vacation.
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Gustaf Reinfeldt may be the son of Sweden’s prime minister, but that doesn’t mean he’s above flipping burgers.
The 18-year-old has gotten a job at a Stockholm McDonald’s, and says he’s loving it.
“A little work will be fun,” he tweeted, adding that people should “drop by” the fast-food joint to chat.
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Ukraine has banned bears from drinking vodka in bars.
The country’s environmental minister put the kibosh on the common practice of taverns keeping bears as pets and giving them alcohol to entertain patrons.
The former Soviet nation is even building a bear detox center where the boozin’ bruins can get clean and sober.