A British gearhead who suffered a stroke while restoring a classic Lotus Esprit was shocked to find that his friends had completed the restoration for him in just five weeks. Simon Pritchard, 36, was restoring the 25-year-old supercar when he suffered a stroke, the BBC reports. Pritchard suffers from Reiter's Syndrome, a form of arthritis that affects the entire body, and has had several small strokes.

A four-year-old boy has become pen pals with Britain's Queen Elizabeth. Tom Stancombe started exchanging letters with the monarch after he released a balloon, carrying his name and address, at a school fete and it landed in the grounds of Windsor Castle. The queen spotted the balloon and asked her personal assistant, Angela Kelly, to write a letter on her behalf.

A Farmingdale, New York woman had a wild night out Thursday when she first hit an unidentified pedestrian with her vehicle, then hit a Nassau County Police Department patrol car as police tried to stop her and to top it all she was also involved in a hit-and-run with a New York State Police vehicle. Susan Kelly is now charged with second-degree assault, criminal mischief, DUI and leaving the scene of multiple accidents. The 48-year-old woman had to be stopped forcibly by troopers who rammed her car into a tree on a side street in Oakdale, New York.

A federal judge has sentenced an Omaha man to three to five years in prison after he was caught stealing without his pants and exposing his bottom to a surveillance camera during a theft at Tobacco Hut. Christopher Willever attempted to rob the store but he was too drunk to realize that his pants have fallen off; exposing his backside to cameras that later fed the surveillance to TV shows across the country.

The timely arrival of two passers-by saved a 3-year-old toddler from certain harm when they caught the boy as he fell four-stories from a fire escape in the Bronx. Police said that Julio Gonzales, 43, and Pedro Nevarez, 40, were passing by the neighborhood when they saw the toddler, Timothy Addo, dangling from a four-story building on Thursday. Apparently, the boy's babysitter took off her eyes from him and he was able to crawl out of the window.