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Handcuffed prisoner escapes from moving police van
We have heard, watched and read many stories of convicts breaking out of prison over the years. Well, one such incident occurred recently in Brazil.
This time it was not a jail cell that the prisoner broke out of but a moving police vehicle. The man was handcuffed but managed to escape from right under the eyes of cops.
The act was caught on camera and the video, shared recently, featured the man jumping out of the police car as it was moving down a street.
The incident took place on December 28, 2021, at Alagoa Nova, Paraiba, Brazil and attracted thousands of viewers online.
As expected, viewers were speechless as the incident unfolded on camera while others praised the man’s escaping act.
According to local reports, the man managed to open the “chess” door of the police car and escaped. He crouched in the middle of the street after jumping out of the car and soon ran for his life.
Due to this, the police did not notice his escape in the rearview mirror and the car went ahead without the prisoner.
According to a report, the police noticed the man’s escape only after they arrived at the police station and did not find the prisoner inside the car. –Ndtv.com
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Message in bottle floats from Canada to Ireland in 13 years
A message in a bottle launched by visitors to Newfoundland’s Bell Island was found washed up on an Irish beach nearly 13 years later, after apparently crossing the Atlantic Ocean.
Kate Gay said she was walking a Dingle Peninsula beach this week when she spotted the wine bottle with a sheet of paper inside.
Gay showed the bottle to members of Creative Ireland NeartnaMacharaí during a meeting at her house that evening, and they broke the bottle open.
The note, written by a couple named Brad and Anita, was dated Sept. 12, 2012. The letter described the couple’s day trip to Bell Island.
There was a phone number on the letter, but there was no answer when group members tried to call.
The Maharees Heritage and Conservation group posted photos of the bottleto social media on Monday, and within an hour group members were messaging with Anita.
Group member Martha Farrell said Anita reported that she and Brad had married in 2016 and are still together to this day. -upi.com
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Woman earns world record for collection of 15,485 egg cups
A Spanish woman who has been collecting egg cups for over 50 years earned a Guinness World Record when her collection was tallied at 15,485 items.
María José Fuster recruited two witnesses to help her tally her collection at a community center in her hometown of Campo, Spain.
Fuster’s collection includes multiple patterns, colors, designs and even novelty cups bearing the images of characters including Superman, Betty Boop and Garfield.
Fuster maintains two blogs related to her hobby — one to catalog each piece, and one to list the names of the people who have donated egg cups to her collection.
Some of her most prized egg cups, about 1,143 of them, are currently on display at a local museum.
-upi.com
