Oddly enough
Oddly enough
Call from Barnstaple, UK, stumps police in Barnstable, Mass.
BARNSTABLE, Mass.
Police in Barnstable, Mass., were stumped when a woman from a nearly identically named town in the United Kingdom called to report a car crash.
The Boston Globe reported that the call came in to Officer Mark McWilliams.
The woman told McWilliams she was “driving back from Barnstaple to Muddiford” when she saw the crash. A perplexed McWilliams asked the woman where she was, to which she replied: “Ilfracombe.” Ilfracombe is on the northern coast of England, about 13 miles north of Barnstaple.
McWilliams and the woman went back and forth for about two minutes before realizing they’re on different continents.
The two shared a laugh, and McWilliams deadpanned: “Our response time is going to be about six hours.”
Letters to God delivered to Jerusalem’s Western Wall
JERUSALEM
Israel’s postal service is delivering letters to a unique address that hasn’t changed in thousands of years.
Ahead of the Jewish high holidays, it took some of the dozens of letters it receives each year that are addressed to God and delivered them to the Western Wall, where visitors traditionally place handwritten notes of prayer and wishes in the cracks between its stones.
The postal service said the letters arrived from all over the world, including Russia, China, France, Nigeria and the United States. Most had no return address and were addressed to “God,” “Jesus” or “Our Dear Father in Heaven.”
Police: Ohio woman overdoses with baby grandson in backseat
ELYRIA
Police said a 56-year-old Ohio woman is suspected of overdosing in her pickup truck with her baby grandson in the backseat.
Officers in Elyria said the woman was unresponsive in the truck and they had to break a window before they could revive her with the overdose antidote naloxone.
Firefighters pulled the baby out through a sliding back window.
Crews said that when they arrived Monday, the truck was still in drive and it was pushed up against a stack of propane tanks at a gas station.
Police said Debra Hyde, of Elyria, has been charged with child endangering. She told WEWS-TV in Cleveland that she’s humiliated and embarrassed.
Associated Press