This kid has new respect for Santa Claus.
An 8-year-old boy from West Valley City, Utah, got stuck in a chimney for six hours.
Stephen Hopkins had gone to his friend’s house for a drink, but when he found the door locked with no one home, he decided the family wouldn’t mind if he found his own way in and helped himself.
He climbed a tree to reach the roof, then decided to channel St. Nick.
Only his pride was hurt.
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“I’ll have some pizza to go — 1,400 miles.”
David Schuler walked into Town Spa restaurant in his hometown of Stoughton, Mass., paid $1,200 for 150 frozen, vacuum-sealed pies, and drove back to his current home in Jackson, Miss.
“Pizza in Mississippi is horrible,” he explained.
As for Town Spa’s pizza, he said, “If you’ve never had it, you don’t understand.”
He expects his haul to last his family months.
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Stealing a base in a baseball game is great.
But someone stole the aluminum bleachers from the field at Apple Valley HS in California.
Officials suspect the foul play was the work of metal thieves who sold the stands to recyclers.
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What Anthony Weiner did was not very nice, but he may be relieved to hear it was grammatically OK.
The Oxford English Dictionary has recognized some 400 new words — including “sexting.”
It also ruled “friend” can be used as a verb.
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Some people have skeletons in the closet — and one family can have a skeleton in the basement.
A real-estate agent in Sweden is offering a house that includes a tomb with its skeleton visible through a glass panel.
The house, on the island of Gotland, was built in 1750. The skeleton is believed to be the remains of a Russian man who died some 800 years ago.