ODDLY ENOUGH

ODDLY ENOUGH

Horse in Wisconsin is world’s tallest at nearly 6-foot-11

POYNETTE, Wis.

Big Jake might be taller than any other horse in the world, but his owner, Jerry Gilbert, describes him as a gentle giant.

The 9-year-old Belgian gelding is the Guinness World Record-holder for world’s tallest living horse at one quarter inch short of 6 feet, 11 inches.

That’s 2.75 inches taller than the previous record-holder, a Clydesdale from Texas named Remington.

Gilbert and his family own Smokey Hollow Farm near Poynette, Wis.

He usually shows Big Jake as a draft horse in four- or six-horse hitches and he raises money for the Ronald McDonald House.

Gilbert says Big Jake, who weighs about 2,600 pounds, is good with people and even likes to goof off.

He says people are astonished when they see just how big Big Jake really is.

Okla. man backs his car through parking tower wall

TULSA, Okla.

A 67-year-old Oklahoma man had quite a fright after backing his car at high speed through a seventh-floor exterior wall of a parking garage.

Ralph Hudson says his foot got stuck between his Mercedes’ brake and gas pedal as he was backing up in a towering parking garage in downtown Tulsa last Wednesday.

The car burst through the building’s exterior wall and sprayed debris on a parking lot below before stopping just in time.

The car’s trunk and part of its back wheels were left hanging precariously out of the building but officials were able to safely drive it back inside.

No injuries were reported.

Police officer Jason Willingham says Hudson was not ticketed over the incident.

German pigs rooting around find WWII anti-tank weapon

BERLIN

German police say a couple of hungry pigs digging for food came nose-to-nose with a long-buried World War II anti-tank weapon.

Police said Friday the two pigs found the single-shot “panzerfaust” on private land southwest of Dresden.

The pigs’ owner secured the animals in their stall then called police who were able to remove the weapon and destroy it.

The inexpensive and easy-to-operate panzerfaust was used extensively during the defense of Germany and through the rest of the war. Such finds are still relatively common, even 65 years after the end of the war.

Associated Press