Weird News

Punxsutawney Phil's PO'd pal attacks
Hampton, N. H. --------------------------- A New Hampshire man says he was working in his garage when a groundhog he had seen in his back yard charged at him.
                                                                 Gary McGrath says the groundhog got close, so he pushed him back with his foot.  But the animal returned.  McGrath said he gave him a harder kick and closed the garage door.
                                                                  But the groundhog sneaked through another opening ------ and McGrath ended up running to the front door.
                                                                  His wife called an animal-control officer, who got back into his truck for a short time when confronted by the groundhog.  The animal was later put down in the yard.  It will be tested for rabies.
                                                                  McGrath said he didn't know what the groundhog was thinking, "but was not nice."

Court pops prisoner's air mattress
Kingsley, Mich. -------------------------- A federal appeals court has deflated a Michigan prisoner's air mattress.
                                                                The court overturned a 2013 order by a judge who told the state Corrections Department to let Richard Boone II use an air mattress to relieve pain.
                                                                 In a 3-0 decision, the court said U.S. District Judge Arthur Tarnow didn't follow the correct procedure for an injunction.
                                                                 Boone, 45, is a convicted robber locked up at the Pugsley prison near Traverse City.  His medical history includes a hip replacement and major leg surgery, and he said a private doctor had recommended an air mattress.

Worm finds home in man's brain
Washington ------------------------------ After four years of headaches, a British man was found to have a rare guest living inside his skull : a tapeworm.  The case is reported in the journal Genome Biology.
                                                               Does your head hurt yet?  Give it a minute.
                                                               The nearly half-inch-long spirometra erinaceieuropaei worm was found during a brain biopsy to investigate strange patterns doctors had seen moving slowly across the host's brain scans over the years.

Man falls 11 stories, lands on moving car, lives
San Francisco ---------------------------- Police say a San Francisco window washer has survived after falling 11 stories from a rooftop onto a moving car.
                                                               Sgt. Danielle Newman, a police spokeswoman, said the man was conscious when officers arrived.
                                                               The man, whose name and age were not immediately available, was transported to a hospital with critical injuries.
                                                               Police said the motorist was making a left turn when the window washer fell onto the roof of the car.
                                                               The driver of the Toyota Camry was not injured.