A local policeman was able to get the car engine of a stranded woman started by using - her dog. Kevin Gorman was patrolling the streets of Addlestone in Surrey when he came upon Juliette Piesley who was then having a hard time starting her car.

Cow chip throwers are coming together this weekend to compete for the title of top dung hurler. The Illinois Championship Cow Chip Throw is being held at the Chatham Jaycees Sweet Corn Festival. Competitors pay $5 each for the opportunity to hurl two patties as far as they can. Expert cow chip throwers have been known to throw chips more than 200 feet.

The Chauncey Emergency Management Group is trying to pay the street light bill with a little potty humor. The citizen's group places places an old-fashioned, wooden outhouse on a resident's lawn with a donation box where the toilet bowl should be and a sign on the door that reads, "Redneck Wishing Well. " People who find the latrine in their yard have to chip in to get it shipped out. They also get to pick the next home it graces.

Sneakers the cat is being reunited with his owner, hundreds of miles away from where she disappeared in 1996. The long-haired black cat was given to Sacramento's Animal Care Services last week, where an employee scanned him for a microchip, a routine procedure.

Logging onto your computer may become as easy as waving your hand. Radio frequency identification computer chips may be what makes it all possible. Inserted into the hand, the computer chips have already improved life for Amal Graafstra, a 29-year-old entrepreneur based in Vancouver, Canada, according to Reuters