Police called to help cardboard cutout
And other stories from the stranger side of life
Police officers in the US were surprised when they realised they had been called to check on the wellbeing of a cardboard cutout. Officers in snowy Minnesota were told an adult male had been seen standing “motionless outside” while “wearing no coat in the cold and hugging a pillow”. It turned out to be a cutout of local millionaire Mike Lindell, the CEO of the MyPillow brand. The cutout’s flesh equivalent (pictured above with Donald Trump) was safe and well indoors at the time of the call.
Woman nearly killed by her own bra
A woman hospitalised with a shotgun wound was nearly killed by her own bra. As medics treated the 39-year-old, who had been shot at close range, they found that the underwire from her bra had been pushed into her by the force of the blast and scythed into her liver, diaphragm and heart.
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