UFO

Two pilots in separate incidents saw something fly over the top of their planes.  The first happened about 3:30 pm on February 24 as a Learjet flew over Arizona.  The pilot asks if any plane flew over them and the FAA responds with "negative."  With another plane in the area, the FAA in Albuquerque alerts them to the object.  American Airlines Flight 1095 replies within a minute that the object just flew over them as well.  This all happened about 500 miles from Roswell, New Mexico, where UFO stories are plentiful.   The controller, the FAA, and the pilots have no idea what it was.  This all comes three months after the Navy released videos taken by Navy pilots that gave an inside look into the secret investigation into UFO's.  So, was it really a spaceship or some other ordinary object?  Source: CBS News

Carpool

A mom took carpooling to a new level when she put her car in park to go back inside her apartment to get something.  Her husband and daughter were still in the car when it popped out of park and rolled into the apartment complex swimming pool.  Both managed to get out and there were no injuries but it's a somber reminder to make sure the car will not roll forward when it's put in park.  Source: UPI

T-Rex

A T-Rex at an amusement park was really blowing smoke and flames.  The animatronic dinosaur caught fire possibly from an electrical problem.  It is a total loss but one of the owners said that it made for some spectacular imagery as it burned.  He hopes to replace it soon.  Now that would be the day to go to a dinosaur park!  When else are you going to see a dinosaur go extinct?   Source: Yahoo News

Whales

About 150 whales have beached themselves in Australia.  When rescuers arrived they unfortunately found that about half of them were already dead.  They're doing everything possible to save the rest of them.  Warnings have been issued telling people to stay away from the beach because the dead whales could attract sharks to the area.  Rescuers say that they're waiting for the right conditions to get the whales back out to sea.  Source: BBC

Toilet Clogging Mystery

Sheboygan police have a mystery on their hands.  Actually a mystery in one of their public restrooms.  Someone has been plugging a toilet in a woman's restroom by inserting a plastic bottle into the toilet's pipe.  It's happened several times over the last three years.  They've had to hang a unique sign in the restroom

showing that no trash should be put in the toilets.  The security cameras show a man in the area so he may be a suspect but no one knows for sure.  Why would anyone do that?  Source: Fox News

Getaway Car

What is a bank robber supposed to do if he doesn't have a getaway car?  Call a taxi of course.  An Indiana man did just that.  He called a cab to take him to the bank, robbed it, and then rode home in the cab.  He even paid the driver with some of his ill-gotten gains.  It took police less than an hour to find and arrest the 19-year-old.  The dumber the criminal, the quicker they get caught.  Source: Yahoo News

Wrong Driver's License

A driver in the UK was stopped by police and handed over a fake driver's license.  For some reason he thought that the officer wouldn't recognize Homer Simpson.  The driver was arrested for not having insurance and no license. Doh!  Don't hand over Homer Simpson's license to a police officer...they know even if they don't live in the US.  Source: SkyNews

Flippy the Robot

The owners of the Robot that could make 2000 burgers in one day have shut it down.  It's not because the robot couldn't handle the job, it's because it's human helpers couldn't keep up on prepping the burgers.  The owners say that Flippy will be back.  I guess they have to make some improvements to the humans.  Source: NY Daily News

Mistaken Text

A woman went shopping for a dress by herself and decided to take a couple pictures to text to her friend for an opinion.  The text went to a complete stranger instead.  The man receiving the text took a picture of his kids giving the dress a thumbs up.  It all went viral on Twitter.  The father then sent a picture of one of his sons also giving a thumbs up.  The boy hadn't been there for the original picture because he was in the hospital for chemo.  Because of the social media exchange, the young boy's gofundme page exceeded it's goal that night.  The father thanked everyone for helping in their time of need.  And all of this happened because of a text.  So heartwarming!  Source: Yahoo News

Alexa Laughs

Alexa is Amazon's voice-based digital assistant.  She is programmed to laugh but only if asked to do it.  So when Alexa started laughing for no reason, it was creepy.  Amazon is working on a fix but if I had one of those things, I'd be turning it off until the fix was in place.  Source: UPI

A New Album

Ever wondered what message was sent up into space on Voyager I and again on Voyager 2 in 1977?  Recordings were offered in 1992 on CD and have also been available on SoundCloud for a while.  But now humans can order it on vinyl from Light in the Attic and Ozma Records.  Source: Huffpost

Robot Cooks

A robot is flipping burgers at a fast food joint.  A human has to put the burgers on the grill but then the robot takes over.  The future is upon us.  Only one of the restaurant's stores will be using the robot flipper for now.  Source: UPI

Drunk Uber Ride

How drunk do you have to be to order a $1600 Uber Ride?  A man got drunk in West Virginia and ordered a ride home to New Jersey.  He thought that he was going to the place where he was staying in West Virginia but that's not what happened.  Two hours into the ride, the driver woke him up.  He didn't know who the driver was or where he was.  That's an expensive night of drinking.  Source: ABC News