Failing to bring proper identification cards with him, the mayor of Charleston, West Virginia used a magazine that featured him on the cover to get through a United States airport. Danny Jones was making his way through the security line at a California airport when he realized his driver's license was lost.

Basketball coach Ron Hunter of Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) went barefoot during a game and he did not expect the overwhelming support he obtained for an advocacy that intends to give pairs of shoes to thousands of African children. "When we started this I thought 40,000 was going to be tough," Hunter told the Indianapolis Star. "When they told me before the game we already had 100,000, honestly, I almost broke down in tears. "

People can buy many things in vending machines, from candy and chips to sandwiches, aspirin and now medicinal marijuana. Yep. Marijuana dispensing vending machines now exist. In California Anytime-Vending-Machines in secure rooms dispense marijuana to anyone with a doctor's prescription for the weed that is legal in that state for anyone with a medical need to take it.

fter their widely popular 'Thriller' dance video attracted over 10 million on YouTube, inmates at a prison in Cebu, Philippines are at it again; this time with their dance number that will be performed during the Sinulog Festival honoring the baby Jesus on January 20. Around a hundred dancing inmates of the Bagong Buhay Rehabilitation Center (BBRC) participated in a video posted at YouTube on December 21. It is only been viewed a couple of thousand times, compared to the 'Thriller' (Michael Jackson's hit song) video posted in August last year, which has been viewed over 10 million times worldwide.

A man posing as a Catholic priest was apprehended at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport after a routine body check found the man to be carrying 7 lbs of cocaine under his robes. According to Dutch police, they got suspicious of the man whose identity had been withheld when they spotted him in line at a different gate after initially refusing to undergo a routine body check "for religious reasons. "