A family from Oxfordshire, England are believers after their pet hamster rose from the dead on Easter Sunday. The Sun reports dad Dave Eyley broke out the shovel when he found the pet's "cold and lifeless" body in his cage. But the four-year old rodent named Rhino dug itself out of his two-foot grave and was found "scampering around the garden" by a neighbor the very next day -- which happened to be Easter Sunday. Eyley said of the seeming miracle: "He had rigor mortis when I buried him -- and now he’s running about. He’s a plucky little soul and seems unaffected by being dead and buried." The newspaper reports hamsters can hibernate if they get cold enough, and a hibernating hamster would appear dead until it's warmed up. With the pet reborn, the family re-named him: Jesus.
A 56-year-old Modesto, California man was hospitalized last Wednesday after managing to shoot himself without a gun. The Modesto Bee reports cops were called to a residence in response to a victim who said he'd been shot in the shoulder -- when he dropped a weight on a stray .22 caliber bullet. Cops searched the home and their investigation didn't turn up a weapon -- or any reports of a suspect fleeing the scene -- but they did find a crushed rimfire cartridge: the victim apparently dropped the weight on the shell, triggering the bullet's primer, sending the slug into the man's arm. Investigators closed the case, saying the man's story was improbable, but not impossible.
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