ODDLY ENOUGH

ODDLY ENOUGH

Firefighters rescue man who was wedged inside wall to evade cops

MONROVIA, Ind.

A central Indiana man who hid inside a wall in his home to avoid arrest had to be rescued by firefighters after he became wedged next to its chimney for more than a day.

Steven Shuler was trying to avoid arrest on a probation violation recently when he squeezed down a narrow hole in the attic floor next to the chimney in his home in Monrovia, officials said.

Morgan Township Fire Chief Miguel Ongay said Shuler had to stay in his 16-inch-wide hiding place for more than a day because he couldn’t climb out. A visiting friend found him the next morning and called firefighters to retrieve him.

Ongay said he had never encountered anything like that in three decades on the job.

“It was a special kind of stupid. This is one of those jobs where you think you’ve seen it all and then somebody tops it,” he said.

Morgan County Sheriff’s Cpl. Ryan Swank said Shuler was arrested on the probation violation and was in the county jail.

Owner spots his stolen truck in rearview mirror; arrest made

PIEDMONT, Ala.

A man driving to work in Alabama suddenly noticed his stolen pickup truck following him, setting off a chain of events that included a pursuit, a crash and an arrest.

Calhoun County Chief Deputy Matthew Wade told WBRC-TV that a man called police after noticing he was driving in front of the truck that had been stolen from him that morning near Piedmont. Police attempted to stop the reportedly stolen vehicle, but the driver, 29-year-old Terry Proctor of Piedmont, did not stop, and a pursuit ensued.

Wade said the driver crashed the vehicle and was ejected as the truck rolled over. Proctor was captured after a foot chase. He was booked into the Cherokee County Jail on charges including first-degree theft and possession of burglary tools.

Massachusetts native reunited with lost ring 49 years later

AMESBURY, Mass.

A Massachusetts native has been reunited with his high school class ring nearly 50 years after he lost it at a beach.

The Daily News of Newburyport reported that Dan Toomey’s ring was found March 19.

Toomey says he was at the beach with his friends in 1966 when he lost the 10-carat Amesbury High School Class of 1967 ring.

Toomey now lives in Anchorage, Alaska. He says he hadn’t thought about the ring for a long time before he learned a tourist found the ring on the same beach buried under 8 inches of mud. The tourist took the ring to the school, and employees did some detective work and found it belonged to Toomey.

Toomey says of the ring: “If it traveled far, it came back.”

Associated Press