In an attempt to prove his love for his wife, a British man from Isle of Wright turned his Land Rover to "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang", an all time favorite car model from the 1960's film that goes by the same name. Retail store manager Nick Pointing spent thousands of dollars and four years to make his car into the same model as shown in the movie. Now the couple plan to take a 12-month career break and tour the world with the car raising money for charity.

In the first incident of its kind, a doctor skiing down the Haulback Trail at Sugarloaf, was hit by something very unusual - a deer. A whitetail deer attempting to cross the trail crossed paths with Dr. Ray Stone, while making a turn, resulting with both of them falling to the ground. Stone, a family practice doctor who lives in New Gloucester and works at Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston said he was utterly confused last month after being knocked-off completely while skiing.

When the world's tallest man, Sun Ming from China, officially joined the American Basketball Association, he was given an XXXXXXL sweat shirt to wear, and it still didn't fit him. ABA is touting 23-year-old Ming as the tallest player in the history of professional basketball, with a height of 7 foot 8 and 3/4 inches (236 cm). Ming wears size 19 shoes and weighs at least 335 pounds. As a new entrant to Maryland Nighthawks, he wore a uniform with the number 79 - symbolic of his giant height.

The members of a house in eastern New Jersey are confused over a mysterious metallic object that crashed through the roof and embedded itself in a wall Tuesday night. The golf-ball sized object weighs nearly as much as a can of soup. The federal officials who were sent to the scene ruled out the possibility of it belonging to an aircraft. According to AP reports, the police on Wednesday displayed the rough-surfaced object with a metallic glint.

Michael Warren, 20, dropped 125 pounds in 18 months to advance in a career in law enforcement. The Wintersville resident used to weigh in at more than 300 pounds. Warren was made a deputy sheriff in Ohio County last Monday, two days after his marriage to his high school sweetheart.