Visitors to an amusement park in Arkansas were left stunned this weekend after a roller coaster train carrying 12 riders came to a halt at the highest point of the loop due to a power outage. According to onlookers, the X-Coaster passengers were stranded upside down for nearly 30 minutes before they were rescued by firefighters. According to park officials, the power outage might have been caused by a tree limb or an animal that might have got stuck in the system.

Residents in the Chicago suburb of Rosemont are flocking to the Willow Creek Health Club to see an aging tree some believe bears an image of their late Mayor Donald E. Stephens. The speculations are built on an image created naturally on the bark of a tree that the former mayor had protected two times from being cut down. The image has fueled several speculations in the village Stephens ran since its inception 51 years ago.

A man from the Indian state of Chennai is bidding for a place in the Guinness Book Of World Records by inserting live snakes into his nostrils and then pulling them out of his mouth. Manoharan, who goes by the name "Snake Manu," has reportedly been performing the feat for quite a few years. According to a local journal, Manoharan threads two tree snakes - several inches long and as thick as a finger - through his nostrils and opens his mouth wide to pull them out.

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.

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.