Mailman to the rescue Posted: 7 months ago by dollyllama
A mail carrier saved an elderly woman from being dragged down the street by her van.
Comments: 5 Score: [-] 246 [+].
Rescue team saves woman, dog and stew Posted: 1 year ago by AutumnLotus
A rescue team navigated flooded farmland in a boat to save a 70-year-old woman and her dog from rising floodwaters and made another critical rescue _ a pot of stew from the woman's stove.
Comments: 0 Score: [-] 71 [+].
Woman goes down baggage chute Posted: 2 days ago by AutumnLotus
An elderly woman misunderstood instructions while checking in at Sweden's main airport and was whisked down a baggage chute after she placed herself instead of her luggage on the belt.
Comments: 6 Score: [-] 652 [+].
Woman pinned by dead husband's body Posted: 4 months ago by dollyllama
Newspaper carrier Bruce Pitts knew the elderly couple only by the prayers the wife made for him while he was working at night and in bad weather, but he felt something was wrong when the papers piled up outside their home.
Comments: 0 Score: [-] 356 [+].
Elderly woman beaten, raped in Boise home Posted: 5 months ago by muppet
Boise Police are searching for a man they say raped and beat an elderly woman in her home early Saturday morning.
Comments: 3 Score: [-] 231 [+].
Dog vs Mailman Posted: 8 months ago by mahler87
Why does your dog go ballistic every time the mailman (or woman) comes?
Comments: 3 Score: [-] 150 [+].
Elderly Suffolk widow hails taxi to Greece Posted: 1 year ago by DrNothing
"I am very elderly and I didn't fancy flying. I am not very keen on airports any more as I don't like being taken around in a wheelchair. I thought it would be very nice just to get in the car at Sudbury outside my own front door and then not have to worry."
Comments: 3 Score: [-] -23 [+].
Elderly woman in wheelchair takes motorway shortcut Posted: 10 months ago by AutumnLotus
An 81-year-old German woman driving to a cemetery in her electric wheelchair decided to take a shortcut and drove the wrong way down a motorway.
Comments: 0 Score: [-] 159 [+].
Horse Stranded On Cliff, Rescue Under Way In Ohio Posted: 5 months ago by dollyllama
The rescue crews are waiting for a group out of Maryland that specializes in large animal rescue. No one at the scene has the proper equipment to get to the horse that's been stranded since Thursday afternoon.
Comments: 0 Score: [-] 119 [+].
Three men commended for rescue 30 years ago Posted: 9 months ago by henkspaan
Goin and his crew of two other Kentucky National Guardsmen could keep flying through a brutal snowstorm to rescue a 13-year-old girl who had been in an accident or play it safe.
"They wanted to see that little girl rescued if at all possible," Goin said.
Comments: 2 Score: [-] 135 [+].
Police Rescue Kidnapped Pregnant Woman Posted: 1 year ago by misswinkle
Teens lured pregnant woman with promise of baby clothes with plan to cut baby from her womb. Scary stuff.
Comments: 7 Score: [-] 171 [+].
Dog stranded on cliff rescued at Point Defiance Park Posted: 8 months ago by bevissimo
..."When I got to the bottom, looking up, I realized what kind of position [the dog] was in and I was scared to death," said Tollefson.
The Tacoma Fire Technical Rescue team arrived and firefighter Dan Elgin rapelled down to rescue Chug. He put him in a harness and brought him down the steep cliff.
Comments: 0 Score: [-] 99 [+].
Woman, 81, drove 15 miles wrong way up M65 Posted: 5 months ago by topofall
An elderly woman left a trail of havoc behind her after driving for 15 miles the wrong way down the fast lane of a motorway.
Comments: 2 Score: [-] 233 [+].
Give those dogs a bone: pets rescue woman Posted: 2 years ago by henkspaan
It's Lassie all over again: dogs get help for hurt woman.
Comments: 0 Score: [-] 16 [+].
Caregiver Pulls Elderly Couple From Burning House Posted: 6 months ago by dollyllama
"It was something that hit me. It was instinct that I needed to get them out and save them so they wouldn't die," she said. "When it first started, just the couch was on fire, but when I drug him out, by the time I got back in, the whole living room was black smoke and I couldn't see nothing."
Comments: 0 Score: [-] 316 [+].
The benefits of being a mailman Posted: 2 years ago by icepigs
You have access to all the Credit cards you want....enough to buy you some good cocaine!
Comments: 2 Score: [-] 6 [+].
Homeowner sued after woman delivering junk mail claims she injured her hand in letterbox Posted: 6 months ago by AutumnLotus
Junk mail rarely brings you something you want, but for one homeowner it has led to a lawsuit landing on his doormat. Paul O'Brien is being sued by a woman who says she trapped her hand in his letterbox while posting mail. Joy Goodman, a cake decorator in her late 40s, is seeking damages for personal injury and loss of earnings.
Comments: 11 Score: [-] 471 [+].
Elderly woman drives through roads blocked for parade Posted: 1 year ago by DrNothing
Extremely angry that the road was closed for the parade, she narrowly missed several families, children and an ice cream salesperson walking on the closed roadway...
Comments: 0 Score: [-] 7 [+].
Intruder Pwned by 95 Year Old Woman in Wheelchair Posted: 4 months ago by tigertony
It's not been a good week for home invaders. Two days ago one got his a*s kicked by a blind guy. Now we have an elderly woman in a wheelchair that held an intruder at bay with a screwdriver, for an hour and a half! He finally passed out from loss of blood.
Note: Themepic isn't him
Comments: 4 Score: [-] 310 [+].
Elderly woman rescued after five days in the tub Posted: 5 months ago by moe
She was stuck for five days and still survived. Good deal.
Comments: 6 Score: [-] 400 [+].