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When Geraldine Fasnacht says that she loves to fly she isn’t talking about in airplanes. Fasnacht, 33, jumps off peaks high in the Swiss Alps. Wearing a wingsuit with fabric stretched between her torso and outstretched arms and legs, she glides forward three or four yards for every 1 yard she descends.…

A six year old boy who listened to the warning siren and insisted that his family get to a safe place probably saved their lives. Six-year-old Brevin Hunter was playing a game on his entertainment console, when he heard the warning siren go off. He immediately told his mother Lisa that they should go…

Christopher Moore broke into a Texas home and found himself facing the homeowner and his son, both pointing guns at him. He called 911. Help me! “I’m out in the country somewhere and some guy’s got a gun on me.” Police arrived and both saved and arrested the burglar. --Jim L. Wilson and Rodger Russell…

When Gilles Cyr, a Canadian man walking through the woods, was attacked by a black bear it was a frightening experience. “When I opened my eyes it was on top of me—. . . . it’s crazy the way it growls. I thought I was dead.” When the bear opened its mouth to bite him, Cyr grabbed its tongue and held…

What is worse than a snake in the grass? One woman in Bowie County, Texas who is deathly afraid of snakes found out one recent spring afternoon. Seeing a snake in the grass outside her house she grabbed a gas can and doused it with gasoline. After setting the snake on fire, however, things went from…

Police in Butte, Montana say a man, who led them on a high-speed chase for no apparent reason, baffled them. 55-year-old John Hughes drove at speeds of more than 100 mph before police used “stop sticks” to deflate his tires and bring the chase to an end. They were surprised to find that Hughes was not…

A three-year-old British toddler was doing something as harmless as hunting Easter eggs in Somersett, England. He found a brown one but was having some trouble getting it in his basket. When the adults examined his egg they discovered he had found an unexploded hand grenade from WW II. An army bomb squad…

Kristopher Wenberg, says he didn’t hear the train approaching as the conductor hit the brakes and blew the horn—he couldn’t hear because of the music playing through his headphones. Unfortunately, Wenberg was at the wrong place at the wrong time—he was walking down a railroad train track when he was…

Michael Vick is the quarterback for the Philadelphia Eagles. It’s hard for him to stay in the game, because he’s hard to protect. Why? Because… • He won’t stay in the pocket. • He won’t stay behind his offensive line. • He keeps running away from his protection. When he runs, all of the rules that protect…

In 2012, the cruise ship Costa Concordia struck an uncharted reef adjacent to the small Island of Giglio, off of the coast of Tuscany, Italy. However, this wasn’t the first time the ship had sailed dangerously close to the tiny Island. According to satellite tracking information given to the BBC the…

A professional mover in England was cleaning a garage near Coventry when he uncovered a mysterious object wrapped in a black bag. After shaking it and looking at it, Sam Curry, 22, decided it looked like a bomb. He Googled it on his phone and discovered it was a WW II era German incendiary bomb. He called…

Police in New York say a man’s plan to coast an SUV with no brakes downhill to a scrap yard turned out to be a very bad idea. The twenty-eight-year-old man told police that he had disconnected the battery before coasting down a hill to take the car to a junkyard. He also said he knew the vehicle had…

A Belgian woman only wanted to travel 90 miles to pick up a friend from the train station in Brussels. Instead, following the directions on her GPS device, she went 900 miles in the wrong direction. She ended up in Croatia. The woman said she didn’t realize there was a problem until the second day of…

Darnell Brown is a one-year-old adventurer. Venturing out in East Point, Georgia, Darnell fell into a storm drain and became trapped. The only rescuer who was small enough to reach him was Rosa Tullis, who stands only 4 feet 11 inches tall. She squeezed down the hole where she reached little Darnell…

Jean du Preez, a South African government education official, went to a school after the schoolchildren discovered a snake in their classroom. While attempting to capture the snake, it bit him on the finger. Hoping it was a nonvenomous python, du Preez took the snake to an animal shelter rather than…

An unexpected defect turned a scheduled demolition into a near disaster. A 275-foot smokestack at an old Ohio power plant that was being demolished fell the wrong direction, sending spectators scrambling, knocking down 12,000-volt power lines, and damaging a building containing backup generators. There…

SelHis neighbor found him lying in a pool of blood. He was 19-year old Grant Williams. The pool of blood wasn’t the most disturbing part of the picture however, for coiled around Mr. Williams was a snake . . . a 13 foot long Burmese Python to be exact. They said the snake mistook Grant Williams for food…

North Dakota, Devil’s lake is slowing rising and flooding surrounding farms and towns. In June 2009, the lake level was about 28 ft higher than the level recorded in February 1993. According to the North Dakota State Water Commission, the Devil’s Lake flooding that began in the 1990's continues to the…

A recent analysis of Internet trends found that though most Americans trust the information displayed on their computers, they have to beware of new risks. A look at online threats during the second half of 2009 showed that 81 percent of email was rigged to deliver “malicious” code and 95 percent of…

In 2000, an Illinois scientist named William Walsh made an unusual discovery. He chemically examined some strands of hair from the head of the body of the famous classical composer Ludwig Van Beethoven. He discovered in his analysis that Beethoven’s body had 100 times the normal of lead that a human…

On August 8, 2009, a small plane and a tour helicopter collided over the Hudson River in New York. Nine people died. Reports obtained by the Associated Press indicate that the air traffic controller, who should have been paying attention, was instead talking on the phone. Instead of watching out for…

TEAMWORK In Outliers: The Story of Success, Malcolm Gladwell writes, “The kinds of errors that cause plane crashes are invariably errors of teamwork and communication.” --Outliers: The Story of Success, 184 Illustration by Jim L. Wilson Proverbs 27:9 (NIV) “Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart,…

SPIRITUAL HEALING When construction worker Patrick Lawler visited his dentist complaining of a nagging toothache, his doctor was surprised to find the source of the man's problem was not his teeth. A dental x-ray revealed a four-inch nail the man had accidentally embedded in his skull. Lawler said he…

Your feelings can really deceive and endanger you. Consider what happened to the children of Barneveld Holland. They were playing in the town when they discovered an object they’d never really seen before. They tossed it around in some kind of game. It was so much fun that they returned to play with…

A Connecticut man was so busy listening to music on his iPod that he did not notice his house was on fire. Andrew Riley told fire officials he didn’t smell smoke or hear the smoke alarm going off. He was so engrossed in the music he was unaware of the fire on the upper floor of his home until the alarm…