Horse Goes Swimming in Winter

Should have used a public rink like everyone else.

clipped from news.yahoo.com DORSET, Vt. - A horse was rescued after accidentally taking an icy plunge in a swimming pool. Jet, a 6-year-old quarterhorse, walked onto the frozen in-ground pool Thursday and broke through six inches of ice into about 3 1/2 feet of water, becoming trapped. "It just looked like a meadow to him, and he stepped on the ice," said his owner, Janet Waite. The animal shook uncontrollably and was losing strength as several rescue attempts failed, according to Vermont State Police Cpl. Gary Shuhart, who responded to the incident after being flagged down by a passerby. Finally, rescuers broke the ice in a corner of the pool and got a rope around the horse's neck, pulling him to safety and wrapping him in a blanket. He was taken to a veterinarian and treated for a cut to his left hind leg.

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Cat Wears Peanut Butter Jar

I'm sure the world looked like a strange place for the poor pussy.

A car had a peanut butter jar stuck on it's head for 19 days before getting rescued.

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Truck Gets Stuck

I knew those GPS things had a sense of humor!

LONDON (AFP) - A Czech lorry driver was stranded for three nights in south-west England after his satellite navigation system directed him down a narrow country lane, British newspapers reported Friday.

Yuri Odenhai, 45, was on his way to pick up a cargo of televisions from a depot in the county of Devon when his 40-tonne truck became stuck fast on a sharp bend near the village of Ivybridge, east of Plymouth.

The trucker's company, Kohlman and Hasek, refused to pay for an expensive recovery operation at the weekend, meaning the 50-foot (15-metre) long, eight-feet wide truck remained wedged in place.

Newspapers said Odenhai had tried to ask for directions before following the sat-nav down the lane but his English was not up to scratch and he could not make himself understood.

The lorry was eventually towed out by a tractor after a tree surgeon cut away surrounding vegetation.

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Thief Gets Stuck in Air Shaft

It would have been a lot funnier if he had been after weight loss pills!

clipped from news.yahoo.com SILVER SPRINGS SHORES, Fla. - A suspected thief trying to help himself to convenience store goods instead wound up crying for help after becoming stuck in an air shaft for 10 hours. Jeffery Mumani, 25, was rescued Tuesday. He removed an air conditioning cover at a CVS store Monday night and tried to enter the store via the shaft but became trapped, Marion County Sheriff's Capt. James Pogue said. He began calling for help about 8 a.m. Tuesday. It took firefighters an hour and a half to rescue Mumani, but he suffered only minor cuts and was in stable condition, Fire Rescue spokeswoman Heather Danenhower.

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Wal-Mart Employee Fails to Pull Finger Out

"What happens if I put my finger in here..." - What? This guy couldn't get a job in McDonalds?

clipped from news.yahoo.com LAFAYETTE, Colo. - A little goofing off during a break from work led to a time-consuming, embarrassing ordeal for a Wal-Mart employee. Authorities said the man got his right index finger stuck in an oval-shaped hole of a cast-iron picnic table outside the store. They freed the man by cutting a square out of the tabletop, then slicing through the metal around his finger. Friedel says the man told him it was an act of "stupidity."

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Toothbrush Up Woman's Nose

Things fly up my nose all the time, and I never notice them.

clipped from www.ananova.com Doctors in India have removed a toothbrush from a woman's nose. The Mumbai Mirror reports that the broken toothbrush showed up during a CT scan, shocking doctors. The 31-year-old woman said: "I was brushing my teeth, my husband accidentally pushed me and the toothbrush in my hand broke. "But since that day, I began getting breathless and a foul-smelling discharge began to come out of my nose. I used to get restless gasping for breath sometimes."

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