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It's been awhile since I posted any off-beat news stories, thankfully people are still crazy.

This woman is either incredibly lucky or has someone watching over her in a big way.

An Israeli woman laid herself on the tracks just before a train roared through a crossing in an apparent suicide attempt. But seconds after the train passed, she got up and walked away almost unhurt.

The incredible scene was captured on the closed circuit security TV system at the Kfar Vitkin level crossing in Israel's north.

The video shows the woman calmly approaching the tracks and lying down between them. The train passes over her at high speed, and then she gets up, picks up her shoes and walks to her car.

Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said Tuesday that two days after the bizarre event, police have not yet found the woman.

Rosenfeld speculated that she was attempting suicide or is mentally unbalanced.


And they say nobody in New York City cares ...
Police say a man's decomposing body inside a minivan covered in parking tickets went undiscovered for weeks in New York.

They said it's because the vehicle's windows were apparently tinted, and ticketing officers don't normally search cars.

The medical examiner's office said Friday that George Morales, 59, died naturally from heart disease. The body was found in the backseat Wednesday when a city marshal tried to tow the vehicle.

"The window was cracked open. I don't understand how no one noticed him. They just gave him tickets," his daughter told the Daily News. It wasn't clear exactly how many tickets were on the minivan's windshield when the body was discovered. Witnesses had reported a foul odour near the vehicle.



Why bother letting this dude out?
A New Hampshire man has been arrested for the 153rd time, this time after he was accused of punching someone in the face over the weekend.

Forty-nine-year-old Portsmouth resident Paul Baldwin told a judge Monday he plans to plead guilty to the assault, along with trespassing and alcohol charges.

He says he's had a long battle with alcohol and was trying to correct the problem during his most recent one-year jail term, which ended last week.

The Foster's Daily Democrat newspaper says Baldwin's record dates to 1984 and includes 152 other arrests, eight trespass orders, 75 citations, four Social Security aliases and 17 name aliases.

Prosecutor Rena DiLando says she didn't have time to read Baldwin's full criminal record because it's so long.



A rifle-toting convenience store owner said he decided to show mercy on a would-be robber after seeing the man collapse into tears and claim he was only committing the crime to support his starving family.

The Long Island store owner provided the bat-wielding man with $40 and a loaf of bread and made him promise never to rob again.

Sounds like a decent type of person this store owner. This was first published Wednesday June 3rd, followed up on Thursday June 4th with ...

A New York convenience store owner who made headlines after showing mercy on a would-be robber has been accused of selling drug paraphernalia.

Shirley Express owner Mohammad Sohail's store on Long Island was one of seven businesses cited Tuesday. He's accused of violating state business laws.

Prosecutors say undercover officers bought bongs and pipe screens at the store three times in recent weeks. Sohail says he did not know the items were not permitted to be sold.

It's not a criminal charge and is punishable by a fine of up to $30,000.

The merchant got attention this week when it was revealed that he gave an intended robber $40 and a loaf of bread if the man agreed never to steal again.

Just flipping amazing.

For today - that's enough of the news you probably missed and should have read.