Brenda Comer is crediting her smoking habit for saving her life. The 53-year-old resident of Rock Hill, South Carolina had just came out of her kitchen for a smoke break when an 80-foot long oak tree crashed through her roof landing exactly there where she had been standing few moments earlier. Recalling the Monday morning's incident to The Herald, Comer said she had just finished washing her dishes and went out for a puff when the giant tree crashed through the kitchen roof, right across the sink where she had been standing.

A 52-year-old housewife from Brazil first stabbed her husband, then chopped off his dead body into small pieces to boil and fry it before hiding it into plastic bags in her house. A 15-member jury found Rosanita Nery dos Santos guilty of killing retired police officer Jose Raimundo Soares dos Santos. The accident took place on June 23, 2005 in Vila Sao Cosme, a lower middle-class neighborhood in the Bahia state capital of Salvador, 930 miles northeast of Sao Paulo. The matter came into picture when police received an anonymous phone call saying that the woman has hid body parts in her house.

A man was awarded $122,400 in court Friday for a bite on his hand that got so infected he had to stay in the hospital for three weeks. The owner of the cat, Jean Toney, was the sister of the defendant, Michael Sabo. According to Sabo's lawyer, Tom Pabst, Sabo had to pay thousands of dollars in medical bills after the cat lept into his lap and bit his right hand in 2004, causing an infection that left his fingers looking like "plump hot dogs. "

Police have convicted a former Franklin District Court security officer in a strange case of prostitution after he offered $20 to a couple for having sex in front of him. Robert Theriault, 49, was convicted Tuesday after the couple testified that he convinced them that they would be testing bed sheets and condoms for an insurance company. The couple said they trusted Theriault because of his position as a court officer.

Pickup truck driver Jeffrey Crane was worried when his vehicle failed to start up after filling up at a Marathon Station in Hobart on Saturday. He then got his pickup towed to a repair shop and was surprised to discover that the fuel tank had water in it instead of gas. The northwest Indiana gas station is dispensing water instead of gasoline after a cracked seal on a mechanical probe allowed ground water to seep into it on Saturday. Ahmad Mochtar, the station's owner told AP, "It was an accident. It was beyond our control. "