5 weird news stories to make your day

Many out there don’t know what a floppy disk is, but this professor was sent back to his childhood when he found his old Apple IIe in the loft, and it still worked fine. Professor John Pfaff of Fordham University had stored the computer in his parents’ attic for several decades. In a tweet, he said he put an old games disk, “Adventureland,” into the floppy drive and it asked if he wanted to restore a saved game. He found one and said it must be 30 years old, but he felt ten years old again.

Joanne and William Boulanger recently got married in Berlin Quarters, Vermont and they tied the knot in the Walmart store where they met and worked. The bride wore black, while the ceremony was performed by an assistant manager who is also a minister. Originally they were having the ceremony in the employee break room, but the wedding was performed in part of the store that had fresh flowers displayed instead. A woman can be heard saying, “Who says you can’t get everything at Walmart?”

A beagle in Australia had lost a litter of puppies but had her motherhood dreams replenished when she adopted a baby possum, abandoned by its mother. Molly lives on a cattle ranch near Hamilton, and her litter of puppies died at birth in January. Elle Moyle said she was very upset and kept searching for her puppies when she came across the possum. Mollie and Poss have been inseparable ever since. Poss climbs on Molly’s back, and they go everywhere together.

When Sybil Hick, 81, died on 2 February, her children made the announcement in an unusual and amusing way. They wrote an obituary for their mother in the first person, saying she was boasting having “the smoking hot body” she had always wanted, after being cremated. Her daughter, Barb Drummond, said her mum was never boring and “lived large,” adding she always had a smile on her face and was “ready for a laugh.”

A German grenade from World War I was destroyed by Hong Kong police recently after it turned up in a shipment of potatoes at a chip factory. Police had to use a “high-pressure water firing technique” to detonate the grenade safely. The grenade, which was caked in dirt, came in a shipment from France, along with the potatoes. A military historian, Dave Macri, believes the weapon was most likely dug up by potato harvesters in France.