These two did:

The story of two strangers who look like twins is topping headlines across the globe because the similarities between Neil Richardson, 69, and John Jemison, 74, go beyond their physical appearance. As reported by the Telegraph on March 31, although the two men were complete strangers, they lived in the same neighborhood, even went to the same college in Chelsea and both worked as religious knowledge teachers.

They had never heard of each other until they met by chance on the bus. Last week, Richardson took a bus to visit an exhibition on the Magna Carta in the British Library in London. When Jemison stepped on the bus, Richardson suddenly understood why everyone had been addressing him by the wrong name. The two men look exactly alike, but they are not family. Jemison said: “I didn’t instantly notice our resemblance but as I boarded the bus, Neil greeted me with ‘Are you John Jemison?'”I was distracted with the thought, ‘Oh dear, it’s someone else who wants me to do something.’

The two former strangers spoke yesterday with British media sources regarding the strange coincidence: “Twice a month I would have someone pass me in the street and say ‘Hello John,’” Richardson said. “I brushed it off at the time but then I realized that the cafe owner always referred to me as John as well.“One day I took him to one side and said, ‘Can I have word with you please?’

The two men met up for lunch and this is when hey realized they have much more in common than just looks. The Telegraph wrote that both studied at the College of St Mark and St John in Chelsea in the Sixties, but never met and went on to become RE teachers. Mr Jemison taught at Braintree’s Alec Hunter and John Bunyan schools, before becoming head of Silver End Primary school, while Mr Richardson became a priest.

So this drunk guy in Scotland was bouncing on one of these — in an underpass, into oncoming traffic:

Mr Shankland said he stopped his car because a police car was blocking the lane and there was a “commotion”.

“As I pulled out past the police car I noticed there was a big red balloon on the road,” he said.

“It wasn’t until I passed and saw the two horns on top of it that I noticed it was a space hopper.

“I can only assume that the gentleman was space hoppering for some time because there is no path there.”

Mr Shankland said the man was being questioned by police when he saw him.

“You could tell from the sheepish look on his face that he knew he was doing something wrong but he did not know what it was,” he said.

“He looked very drunk to be honest.”

Mr Shankland added: “He was coming towards the oncoming cars, he wasn’t bouncing away from them, so it could have been a worse story to tell.”

My mom used to say that angels watched over small children and drunks. In this case, she had a point!

I love stories like this:

A Detroit man who long pondered the fate of his old Army buddy found him in the oddest of places: living practically next door for the last 18 years. Dave Brown heard that his basic training buddy Roger Watson had been wounded in Vietnam, which was true—Watson lost a kidney and suffered other organ damage after being shot early in his tour in 1968, the Detroit Free Press reports. Brown even checked the Vietnam Veterans Memorial to see whether his fellow combat engineer demolition specialist, who trained with him at Ft. Hood in Texas, had died. Then Brown’s wife, Peggy, befriended a kitty-corner neighbor over the back fence, chatting with him about their mutual interest in birds. She was also intrigued by the Purple Heart license plate on his car, and 9th Infantry Vietnam Veterans cap in his car’s rear window.

So she asked about them in an email. Soon, the exclamation points were flying: “Small world!!!!!!” and “Wow!!!!” are among the words in their email exchange as they figured out who was who. A backyard meeting was quickly arranged, and Brown “came running out of the house, over to the corner, had to beat back the brush, we just shook hands and couldn’t believe it,” Watson tells WXYZ. “It was just an incredible feeling, just amazing.” Reclaiming their friendship after nearly half a century, they plan to “share a beer every now and then” and see “a lot more of each other,” says Watson.

http://youtu.be/S5FRE9C-Sos

Breaking away:

Cows were running free in Pocatello, Idaho, Tuesday, following in the hooves of a feisty heifer that escaped from a meat packing plant Friday. The pursuit of that cow made national headlines; five cows have now broken out of the plant in the past four days.

Two cows remain at large, part of a cohort of at least four animals that made a run for it Sunday. Their escape came two days after a 1,000-pound cow broke out by reportedly jumping a 6-foot fence.

Of the five cows, one was captured and taken back to Anderson Custom Pack in Pocatello. Two others have been shot – including the heifer that had escaped on Friday.

That cow did not go quietly, rushing at plant co-owner Jesse Anderson (leaving him with two broken ribs) and leading animal control officers on a long chase through residential areas. Video reports from Friday show the cow trotting through yards.

Read this, you’ll feel better:

A cesspool filled with excrement has exploded in central China, injuring 15 people and knocking down a building, state-run media reported.

The blast was apparently sparked by a local man burning waste close to the cesspool, igniting methane gas which was emanating from the pit, the Xinhua news agency said late on Sunday.

The incident in Zhangjiajie city, in the central province of Hunan, caused a residential building to collapse and three of the injured had to be hospitalised, Xinhua said.

China’s urban infrastructure has often been hastily built with little regard for safety as hundreds of millions of people have moved from the countryside to cities in recent decades.

I guess there’s hope for everyone: