http://www.wtfnews.org/ Stories tagged escapes en-us Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:21:26 -0400 http://www.wtfnews.org/general/unbreakable-boy-4-escapes-unhurt-from-double-disaster/ Rescuers were amazed to pull an unscathed four-year-old tot from the remains of a car after it was rammed by a 250 lbs stag and then crushed by a train. Horrified mum Anita Koller tried to tear her son free from his child seat but was thrown clear when the train hit them at full speed at the crossing in Oberengadin, Switzerland. "They were hit by a deer which knocked them over into the car's roof and it slid straight onto the tracks just as a train was coming. It didn... ]]> Fri, 05 Oct 2012 22:32:24 -0400 http://www.wtfnews.org/general/unbreakable-boy-4-escapes-unhurt-from-double-disaster/ http://www.wtfnews.org/nature/squirrel-goes-rampage-in-kitchen-and-escapes-like-a-boss-youtube/ Squirrel goes rampage in kitchen and escapes like a boss - YouTube ]]> Mon, 24 Sep 2012 06:14:38 -0400 http://www.wtfnews.org/nature/squirrel-goes-rampage-in-kitchen-and-escapes-like-a-boss-youtube/ http://www.wtfnews.org/sports/streaker-escapes-in-getaway-car/ A streaker who disrupted an American football game in Florida set a new precedent for organised naked crime. He ran onto the pitch, at Seminole High School in Sanford, wearing only a red Spider-Man mask to hide his face. The man managed to bob and weave over the field, eluding security guards, before jumping over two perimeter fences. It was then that he took his stunt to a new level when a getaway car arrived at his side in the nick of time, accordi... ]]> Wed, 12 Sep 2012 19:19:36 -0400 http://www.wtfnews.org/sports/streaker-escapes-in-getaway-car/ http://www.wtfnews.org/nature/tiger-escapes-kills-female-zookeeper-at-cologne-zoo/ A TIGER has escaped its enclosure at Cologne Zoo in western Germany and killed a female keeper before being shot dead by the zoo's director, police said. The tiger, named Altai, managed to get from the enclosure to an adjacent storage building, where it attacked the 43-year-old keeper, said police spokesman Stefan Kirchner. "It appears the gate wasn't properly shut," Mr Kirchner said. ]]> Sun, 26 Aug 2012 05:24:10 -0400 http://www.wtfnews.org/nature/tiger-escapes-kills-female-zookeeper-at-cologne-zoo/ http://www.wtfnews.org/law-politics/shoplifter-escapes-shoplifting-arrest-by-running-topless-from-crime-scene-video/ No escape is as titillating as the method used by Aishana Clayton. Officers in Upper Darby, Penn., say Clayton, 26, was caught on surveillance camera stealing a package of Pampers diapers from a Pathmark store, NBCPhiladelphia.com reported. Security guards managed to capture her and take her to an in-store holding area, but Clayton blew her top -- figuratively at that point -- by allegedly punching, biting and scratching a 47-year-old female guard. ]]> Sat, 21 Jul 2012 06:15:22 -0400 http://www.wtfnews.org/law-politics/shoplifter-escapes-shoplifting-arrest-by-running-topless-from-crime-scene-video/ http://www.wtfnews.org/general/how-woman-driver-cheats-death-in-bizarre-road-accident/ Highway patrol officers in Washington say a female driver is lucky to be alive after ramming her car into a trailer filled with long wooden teepee poles. The poles smashed through the front windscreen, completely pierced through the car and smashed through the rear windscreen as well. No details have been released about the driver involved, other than the fact that she was taken to hospital with a number of injuries. Miraculously, though, none of the injuries were considered ... ]]> Sat, 14 Jul 2012 04:10:30 -0400 http://www.wtfnews.org/general/how-woman-driver-cheats-death-in-bizarre-road-accident/ http://www.wtfnews.org/law-politics/woman-escapes-after-being-stuffed-in-car-trunk/ Atlanta police say one woman was abducted and stuck in a trunk while two others were able to get away early Wednesday. The women were accosted outside of their east Atlanta homes just 30 minutes apart, one on Mayson Avenue, another on Hawthorne Street. A woman said she and her friend were on the porch at a home on Mayson Avenue around 2 a.m. when a man approached. “He had a gun in his pocket and he, you know, grabbed her, marched her off the por... ]]> Thu, 03 May 2012 09:24:26 -0400 http://www.wtfnews.org/law-politics/woman-escapes-after-being-stuffed-in-car-trunk/ http://www.wtfnews.org/law-politics/convicted-of-murderer-timothy-richards-escapes-from-alabama-prison/ At age 28, Shonda Nicole Johnson found herself divorced twice and remarried to three men -- at the same time. But five husbands became one too many for the Alabama woman after husband number three found out about her polygamist life. Randy McCullar filed for divorce and turned her into police. She didn't take his rejection well, authorities say. After he testified in front of a grand jury, she convinced her fifth husband, Timothy Richards, to murder him. %0... ]]> Tue, 10 Apr 2012 03:52:05 -0400 http://www.wtfnews.org/law-politics/convicted-of-murderer-timothy-richards-escapes-from-alabama-prison/ http://www.wtfnews.org/general/prisoner-escapes-from-jail-after-boasting-about-it-on-facebook/ ONE of two violent Tasmanian criminals on the run from prison last night, boasted on Facebook he would get out of jail. Tasmania Police said detectives and uniformed officers were looking statewide and interstate in the hunt for Kyle Leslie Lynch, 19, and James Peter Sampson, 22. A Facebook page in the name of Kyle Leslie Lynch posted a comment earlier this month: "Is getting out sooner than yas think boys. Its gonna be on !" ]]> Mon, 23 Jan 2012 08:36:19 -0500 http://www.wtfnews.org/general/prisoner-escapes-from-jail-after-boasting-about-it-on-facebook/ http://www.wtfnews.org/law-politics/nine-year-old-colorado-girl-escapes-brutal-kidnapper/ A nine-year-old Colorado girl was being hailed for her quick thinking Sunday after escaping a man who had kidnapped and beaten her. Calysta Cordova, from Pueblo, Colo., was snatched Thursday as she walked home from school. However her abductor's truck broke down overnight -- so he took the girl and hitchhiked to a gas station in Colorado Springs Friday morning. ]]> Mon, 23 Jan 2012 08:28:45 -0500 http://www.wtfnews.org/law-politics/nine-year-old-colorado-girl-escapes-brutal-kidnapper/