Oddly enough

Oddly enough

Woman thought to be dead found alive in Croatia

ZAGREB, Croatia

A month ago, a mother and father identified a body in a morgue as their daughter’s. A funeral took place and the family mourned its loss.

But it turned out that 39-year-old Tea Buric was still alive. This week police found her when they showed up at an apartment in the southern city of Split to investigate a report of domestic violence.

Buric was disoriented and lacked identification, so police checked her fingerprints and discovered she had been identified by her family as dead.

The body found floating in the Split harbor April 15 turned out to be that of a 44-year-old woman who had disappeared earlier that month, Split police said.

Police spokeswoman Marina Kraljevic-Gudelj said in an interview that police didn’t use DNA to identify the well-preserved corpse because four relatives, including the parents, had identified it.

Wisconsin court allows inmate to have four bikini photos

MADISON, Wis.

An inmate at Wisconsin’s maximum-security prison will soon have four reasons to smile.

An appeals court ordered prison officials to give inmate Johnny Lacy four photographs of women in bikinis that he ordered through the mail.

The court said the photographs were improperly withheld from Lacy under a prison policy banning pornography.

Two of the photos show women sitting on the beach in bikinis, and two others show the same woman standing in a pink bikini in front of a wall.

The court says the four photos do not violate the prison’s pornography ban although several other shots he ordered were too risque and were properly withheld

Dutch start driving exam for those who fear test

AMSTERDAM

Some people flunk their driving tests because they can’t parallel park. Others flunk for not entering traffic safely. And an unlucky few flunk for fear of flunking itself.

In response, the Netherlands has launched a special driving exam for people who suffer from acute test anxiety.

Examiners try to put test-takers at ease. The exam pace is leisurely, and drivers are allowed to take a “time out” if the pressure becomes too much for them.

But won’t this put people behind the wheel who are liable to freeze in the face of a stressful traffic situation?

No, spokeswoman Irene Heldens of the country’s Licensing Bureau said. Test anxiety is not linked to poor performance in real life.

“It will remain safe on the roads,” she said.

Associated Press