Joanne Cullen said she was visiting her parents’ graves at a Long Island cemetery when the earth suddenly opened up, sucking her straight into the final resting place of her beloved mother and father.
Now the woman is suing St. Charles Resurrection Cemetery, claiming that she was injured after being sucked into the sinkhole and striking her head on the tombstone. As the reported, Cullen has filed suit to cover the damages and injuries she suffered from the strange mishap, which included a chipped tooth.
She is asking for $5 million in total, claiming that the graves were improperly dug, causing an air pocket to sit above their graves and lead to the collapse into a sinkhole.
“Getting sucked into your parents’ grave when you go to visit them on a cool December afternoon with the sun going down … it’s terrifying and traumatizing,” said her lawyer, Joseph Perrini.

During an Oval Office event focused on border security, President Donald Trump talked about the effectiveness and abilities of trained dogs, reports.
One of the reporters covering Trump’s Oval Office address via , Aaron Rupar, described it as a “bizarre rant.”
The president was apparently trying to argue that dogs help Border Patrol officers prevent illicit drugs from entering the United States.
Trump began the rant by touting “incredible” new equipment Border Patrol officers are now able to use, but then went on to argue that high-tech equipment is not nearly as effective as dogs are.
“Also, we’re getting dogs. More dogs, believe it or not. I still say — is that still true? There’s nothing [that] replaces a good dog. Is that right? So, we’re spending hundreds of millions of dollars on equipment, but I will say this: It’s not as good as the dogs,” he said.
“We’re getting a lot of dogs,” Trump continued.

Exposing cheese to round-the-clock music could give it more flavor and hip hop might be better than Mozart, Swiss researchers said on Thursday.

A young lion captured after being on the run for almost a month spent the night in a South African police cell before being moved back to its national park home.

An Australian man had a lucky escape while confronting a man armed with a bow outside his home, as a loosed arrow pierced the mobile telephone he was holding to take a photograph of the incident, Australian police said on Thursday.

Step aside Francis Bacon.

Knocked overboard in rough seas off New Zealand, a German yachtsman credited his jeans with saving his life after fashioning them into a make-shift life jacket that kept him afloat for over three hours before his rescue by coastguards.

A proposed North Carolina law would give a pay boost to teachers who are packing heat.
The School Security Act of 2019 was submitted to the state legislature this week and would give a 5 percent salary boost to teachers who complete basic police training that allows them to carry a gun either openly or in a concealed manner, reported. The bill would also give teachers the power to arrest students just like any other police officer, the report added.
Republicans who introduced the bill said it’s a way to help schools save on costs of resource officers, who are police officers stationed inside the school.
“It’s extremely costly to put a school resource officer in every school… and there’s a great shortage of the number of applicants to law enforcement agencies,” said Republican State Senator Warren Daniel, a sponsor of the bill. “This bill is an attempt to bridge that gap.”

Michael Kinne may want to think a little longer before picking a fake name to give to police from now on.
The Washington man was pulled over this week at a traffic stop in Spokane, and police say that when they asked for identification, Kinne instead gave them a fake name. But when police looked up the “made up” name that Kinne gave, they found in their database a real person — and one who happened to have some warrants for his arrest.
As a report from noted, police officers ran the name and then went back to Kinne to inform him of the warrants. It was then that Kinne provided his real name, police said.
The report noted that Kinne was driving with a woman who had a no contact order against him, and police allowed her to leave the scene on her own.

A flat Earth conspiracy theorist has made the outrageous claim that NASA has been lying to us for years about the Earth being round.
The notion that the earth is as flat as a pancake is an odd one. Yet, the outrageous theory has gained considerable credence in recent years.
Maybe it’s a sign of the times in which we live, where conspiracy theories of every color and hue run riot in a cauldron of psychobabble. The simple fact is, more and more people appear prepared to ignore centuries of learned opinion and scientific study to adopt a theory that is both outlandish and irrational.
The flat Earth theory suggests our planet is a flat and disc-shaped plane surrounded by ice. Why NASA and others have decided to keep this a secret from the general public is anybody’s guess, but in 1956 Samuel Shenton formed the Flat Earth Society and a movement was born.

Lego enthusiast, James Burrows of Spring Hill, Florida, is hoping to break a Guinness World’s Record with the supersized roller coaster assembled in his store, The Brick University.
says that Burrows is hoping to break the record for the world’s longest roller coaster with 91 feet of track. He says he used more than 300,000 Lego pieces to create a working roller coaster, which has cars that go up to 68 miles per hour (accounting for scale).
And as part of the roller coaster scene, Burrows also created a miniature golf course and a movie theater to replicate a theme park vibe. The Lego roller coaster will soon go on display at a Lego expo where it will be certified by the Guinness World Records judges as world’s longest Lego roller coaster.
says that Burrows constructs all things Lego in his workshop, but his roller coaster is nearly filling his whole store.

Ehud Arye Laniado, an Israeli-Belgian billionaire diamond dealer, has died unexpectedly in Paris during a penis enlargement operation. The gem expert was at an unidentified clinic on the Champs Elysee on Saturday when he unexpectedly had a heart attack.
reports that Laniado’s company, Omega Diamonds out of Antwerp, Belgium, confirmed the 65-year old’s death. The firm issued a statement to say goodbye to Laniado.
“Farewell to a visionary businessman. It is with great sadness that we confirm that our founder Ehud Arye Laniado has passed away.”
Friends shared that Laniado, who was very concerned with his height and appearance was called “The Argentinian” as they thought he looked like a tango dancer. They added that he was a citizen of the world as he had homes in Belgium, Monaco and the Los Angeles suburb of Belair where he enjoyed “drinking fine wine with models and celebrities.”
His company shared through their website that Laniado would be buried in Israel.

Radical diets and extreme detox plans have been all the rage for quite some time now, but one man believes he has hit gold with his rather peculiar and unusual dietary habit.
British man Fabian Farquharson was once a massive fast food fan. The 37-year-old interior designer from Sheffield traveled a lot during his working day and was forced to eat on the fly. Convenience was the name of the game and fast food chains such as McDonald’s and Burger King played a massive part in Fabian’s diet.
Naturally, all those burgers and fries took their toll, and after perpetually suffering from crippling stomach pains, which baffled his doctor, Fabian began to research alternative therapies as a means to cure his condition.
At first, Fabian ditched the burgers and fries and adopted a “fruitarian” diet, which as the name suggests, entails eating only raw fruit. It worked wonders and Fabian felt a new man almost immediately.

After tending to his cows all day, Pablo Pato swept the hay off the floor and transformed, almost Cinderella-like, into a freestyle roller skater without leaving the cowshed in the remote mountain village of Llanuces in northern Spain.

Hundreds of people descended on the town of Ashbourne in central England on Tuesday to play a traditional football game in which the rules are hazy and the goals three miles apart.

According to a post on , a man claims that he discovered a box his girlfriend has that contains a number of his things that has him “genuinely scared”.
The anonymous man claimed on the Relationship Advice board that while his girlfriend of over a year has been keeping a secret from him.
While she was out one day he says he got bored and started rummaging through some of her things, he was particularly interested in a box she kept hidden above her wardrobe.
Upon opening the box he says he was met with a horrifying collection of things he’d lost and things that had no business being in the box.
He lists an assortment of bizarre and strange items like missing pairs of mismatched socks, a toothbrush he’d lost on holiday, chunks of hair that may or may not have come from his comb, “Toe nail clippings” and reciepts.
Digging through the box for explanations just revealed even stranger items.

A Danish man recent received some unusual and perhaps frightening news. As Sky News details, an unnamed 59-year-old man from Denmark was recently relieved after years of symptoms related to his nasal passageways. Discharge, congestion, and a loss of smell had plagued the anonymous Dane for years until doctors discovered an extremely bizarre cause for his maladies — a tooth growing in his nose.
The symptoms were decidedly worse on the left side of his nose, according to , and the patient had tried an endless litany of remedies to ameliorate his suffering — going so far as to apply topical steroids in the hopes that it might work. Finally, after having been subjected to a CT scan, the patient learned that there was a now-obvious reason for his chronic symptoms — a “supernumerary” tooth.

When Minnesota police received the call, the situation sounded dire.
A caller said there was a man standing motionless out in the freezing cold, wearing nothing but pants and a shirt and clutching something tightly in his arms.
As the reported, the welfare check prompted officers to search out the man, but they didn’t find a man at all. Instead, it was a cardboard cutout of of MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, a fixture of late-night television infomercials.
Afterward, the police department had a bit of fun with the situation as they posted an .

It’s an opioid epidemic of the feathered kind as a flock of opium-addicted parrots dive bombed poppy fields in Madhya Pradesh to feed and satiate their cravings. Per , opium cultivators of Neemuch district are up in arms about the whole situation, and they told news outlets that the avian nuisances often feed on the plants about 30 to 40 times daily. On top of that, they went on to say that the flock additionally absconds with whole poppy pods.
The Neemuch district cultivators say they are losing big because of it, and they went on to explain that the opium-addicted birds are adding to disastrous losses already incurred by insufficient rainfall. They added that efforts to contact authorities on the matter haven’t been successful, either.

A Kenyan court charged seven men on Wednesday for impersonating President Uhuru Kenyatta and swindling a prominent businessman out of 10 million shillings ($100,000) in yet another high-profile corruption case.