A disabled man in a wheelchair, arrested for allegedly trying to steal a power saw at Home Depot, manages to slip out of his handcuffs and steal the squad car he was placed in. Phillip Anthony Moreno, 44, a parolee with a previous $200,000 warrant out for his arrest, managed to avoid being captured. Newsday

An unusually thin firefighter was able to put his stature to work when he wiggled his 6-foot-1, 160 pound frame into a narrow crevasse to rescue a toddler trapped nine feet underground. John Michael Butterfield, 16-months-old, was running at the Tamaques Park playground when he wondered into a nearby tennis court and fell into one of six holes dug by a contractor earlier that day to support new floodlights.