Oddly enough

Oddly enough

Germany: Pedestrian hits BMW with bologna

BERLIN

A BMW driver brought out the wurst in a pedestrian in Germany, who dented the luxury vehicle with a foot-long bologna, saying the car was going too fast and endangering his son.

Police in the eastern city of Neubrandenburg said the sausage strife broke out when the 49-year-old man and his 8-year-old son were crossing the street.

As a 47-year-old BMW driver tried to scoot quickly into a nearby parking spot, the pedestrian yelled “stop” but after the car didn’t slow, he threw the sausage he was carrying at it.

The bologna triumphed over Bavarian engineering, leaving a small dent in the BMW’s back right door.

Police say the pedestrian is suspected of causing property damage.

The bologna was not seized as evidence.

Hospital breaks out in hives at finding of bees

LONDON

A British hospital discovered it had become home to more than 100,000 bees when patients noticed honey dripping down the walls.

Beekeepers were summoned to Rockwood Hospital in Cardiff, Wales, after the discovery last month, and found a large colony of bees in the roof above a ward.

Abigail Reade of the Tree Bee Society charity said that honey was “dripping through the ceiling tiles, it was dripping down the walls.”

She said the hive had gone unnoticed for up to five years. It’s thought warm summer weather melted some of the wax, releasing the honey.

Beekeepers from the society removed some 70,000 bees by cutting a hole in the roof. A second colony was removed later from another part of the hospital.

Funeral had no attendees, so 30 strangers showed up

ORANGETOWN, N.Y.

About 30 people have paid their respects to a woman they never met after responding to a call for attendees for a suburban New York funeral at which no one was expected to show up.

The Journal News reports the strangers served as Francine Stein’s pallbearers and also helped bury her during the service recently at a cemetery in Orangetown.

Stein died at age 83. Rabbi Elchanan Weinbach officiated the service and says there was no eulogy because he didn’t know anything about the woman. He learned at the cemetery that Stein was a musician and had taught at the Juilliard School.

The call for volunteers came on Facebook from Weinbach’s daughter.

One attendee said she came to the service as a simple act of “human decency.”

Associated Press