A situation at a Florida apartment complex escalated from household items being thrown off a balcony to a SWAT standoff after deputies say a 40-year-old man barricaded himself inside his home and threatened to kill law enforcement officers. According to the Bay County Sheriff’s Office, deputies responded to the Perla Apartments at approximately 11:30 a.m. …
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Construction workers digging a new sewer system in Belgium expected to find dirt, old building materials, and probably some worms. Instead, they uncovered a hidden stash of gold estimated to be worth more than $10 million. The Guardian reports that workers discovered the gold on Tuesday, Aug. 11, at a construction site in Sint-Gillis-Dendermonde, Belgium, …
A routine flight turned into a medical scare. Four Frontier Airlines flight attendants experienced headaches and nausea during a flight to Florida, prompting the pilots to request medical help before the plane reached its destination. According to PEOPLE, Frontier Flight 1046 departed Cleveland Hopkins International Airport shortly before 8 a.m. on Thursday, Aug. 13, bound …
Could trimming the trees on your property trigger a constitutional crisis? That’s what one homeowner is suggesting is happening in his Austin neighborhood, after he received a hefty bill for trimming back some of the trees on his property. But it wasn’t just any bill; it was a nearly $9,000 bill. Now the homeowner has …
Disney World’s new trashcan design has divided the Internet. A change in receptacles meant to streamline waste disposal has some parkgoers dismayed and missing key features of the old bins. Will the transformation be worth it? On July 30, the Walt Disney World Cast and Community Facebook page posted an announcement debuting a new “smart” …
An Amazon delivery driver is going viral for all the right reasons. Typically, when you see that a delivery driver is trending online, it’s for something bad. From poorly handled packages to bad attitudes, people love sharing footage that they capture when their drivers are behaving badly. But a woman is going viral for doing …
An 8-year-old boy went fishing in a Pennsylvania lake expecting to reel in a typical haul of local aquatic life. Instead, what emerged from the water had a mouth full of teeth and belonged thousands of miles from the quaint watering hole. Seamus Coffey was fishing with his father, Michael Coffey, at Ridley Park Lake …
In a time when it feels like absolutely everything is getting more expensive, residents in one Florida town may have another cost to add to their budgets. According to WKMG News 6, Ocoee residents recently received a letter in the mail describing a proposed change that would see homeowners footing the bill for essential services. …
When Hollie Brown decided to sell her house, she chose to look to an investor. According to her, the house needed a bit of work, and she figured someone like that would be more interested in taking on the project. However, Brown told Fox 4 News that instead she was contacted by a company called …
If your neighbor calls you to tell you that there’s a problem with a broken water main in front of your home, you’d probably panic. However, if you learned that the city’s utility workers were already on scene working on the damage, you might feel just a tiny bit better about the situation. Something similar …