CASINO CHANGES SCATTERED COINS INTO $17,000

The Sands Casino Hotel in Atlantic City, N.J., recently searched under its old slot machines and found $17,194.34, CBS News reported April 4. Workers had been removing the machines for use at other casinos when they found the pocket change under the obsolete devices.

WOMAN THANKFUL FOR FECES

A Beijing woman survived a six-story fall after she crashed into a pile of excrement, Yahoo! News reported April 4. While hanging out laundry to dry, she apparently fell over the balcony. Fortunately for her, workers were emptying a septic tank, creating a 20-cm cesspool, that broke her fall.

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