A Chicago woman, who called 9-1-1 to complain about illegal fireworks in her area, said all she could hear on the other end was uncontrollable laughter. Brigitte Biver called 3-1-1 on the evening of July 4 but the operator transferred her to the city's 9-1-1 emergency center. But all she could hear was wild laughter on the other end.

A group of 30 Spaniards selected by psychologists for their unusually high levels of stress and anxiety were allowed to run wild throughout a Spanish hotel, smashing whatever they wanted to with sledgehammers and pickaxes. Among the lucky winners who were selected from a pool of 200 applicants were a corporate executive, a soon-to-be-married couple and a single mother.

A 2-year-old boy miraculously survived a perilous ride in his mother's pick up truck that rolled down through several embankments, trees and structures before coming to a halt against a chain link fence. It wasn't clear why the pickup started rolling. The incident happened Sunday morning when the boy's mom was loading a mattress into the pickup's bed while the toddler sat alone in the cab, Yavapai County Sheriff's spokeswoman Susan Quayle told the Miami Herald.

Forest rangers in the northern Italian Alps have for the first time taken pictures of an albino mountain goat at about 10,000 feet above the Les Laures valley in the northwestern Val d'Aosta region. Named "Snowflake", the albino capra ibex was seen climbing with its mother Sunday, reports Christian Chioso a regional wildlife official. The occurrence of Albinism is rare in any species and has not been previously documented among this type of goat. AP quotes Chioso as saying, "This is the only one ever documented, the only one ever seen. " Capra ibex is a type of wild mountain goat with large curved horns that lives in mountainous areas.

Flights going in and coming out of Milan's Linate airport were suspended for three hours Sunday so staff and volunteers could catch hares and rabbits, which have proliferated to such a degree that they've caused problems with takeoffs, landings and radar systems. According to AP, Nicoletta Angioni, spokeswoman for SEA, the company that operates Milan's airports, said, "There are always hares at the airport. The problem is that lately there were too many, and they cause problems with the radar and sensors that monitor the airport. "