Wish I Didn't Know
From the category archives:
(WIDK By Rebecca Arden) – A mother was not going to let this man abduct her child.
Melissa Torrez was quick to act when her 4-year-old daughter was kidnapped outside of their home by 31-year-old David Hernandez; she jumped into her car and chased him down for over 7 miles until she hit his car.
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(WIDK By Jane Rouen) – The only winning ticket for Saturday night’s Powerball was sold in Zephyrhills Florida, with a population of 13,337.
According to Daily Mail, rumors are circulating that the sole winner of the biggest Powerball ever — more than $590 million– is a woman, aged 26, from the small town of Zephyrhills Florida.
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(WIDK By Jane Rouen) – A father who lost his daughter and was about to lose his home finds a $4,000,000 winning lottery ticket in the cookie jar his daughter gave him.
Richard Cerezo, a Chicago area man, was about to lose his home to foreclosure when he checked the lottery tickets he had stashed away months before in a cookie jar and discovered that one of them was worth $4,850,00.00.
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(WIDK By Brittany Hahn) – After fighting fifteen twisters with just a closet door, this family of five is still standing strong.
Texas mother, Ronna Cotten, was lucky to block out the destructive winds of fifteen twisters Wednesday evening by hiding in a closet with her family. Others weren’t so lucky, at least six have been killed and many more have been injured.
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(WIDK By Rebecca Arden) – A bizarre accident has left numerous people injured, with at least five critical.
A Metro-North commuter train from New York to Boston derailed and was hit by another train Friday evening while carrying over 700 passengers between the two trains, leaving over 60 people injured and five people critically injured.
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(WIDK By Jane Rouen) - An Ontario man’s breakfast is interrupted by 400-pound black bear who wanted him for breakfast.
Joe Azougar, 30, could already feel the 400-pound black bear’s teeth on his scalp when two women, whom Azougar calls “his angels,” scared the beast away.
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(WIDK By Jane Rouen) – An extreme case of Hydrocephalus, a disease also known as water on the brain, caused a baby’s head to swell to three times its normal size.
Roona Begum, an 18-month old girl from the poverty stricken town of Agartala, India, has had free emergency surgery to reduce the water on her brain, which had caused her head to swell to three times its normal size.
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(WIDK By Remus Lee) - These Aussies have no trouble showing off what’s down under for their cause.
Australians Sam Hatfield and Fiona Skelton are going naked in London in order to de-stigmatize nudity.
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(WIDK By Jane Rouen) - A Zimbabwe man told a local newspaper that he had only a hazy recollection of his own funeral.
Family and friends of Dama Zanthe, 34, were stunned to see the Zimbabwe man move in his coffin as they filed past at his funeral.
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(WIDK By Brittany Hahn) – This humble hero did everything right under an extreme amount of pressure.
A trainee nurse in Australia had to jump onto train tracks to save a man who had fallen and could not get up.
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(WIDK By Jane Rouen) – Talk about the will to live.
A 37-year old Hungarian man cut off his arm below the elbow in an industrial accident in Austria, then drove ten miles to Hungary to the hospital.
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(WIDK By Rebecca Arden) – It’s like the Parent Trap, track-meet edition.
17-year-old Jordan recently joined her Washington D.C. school track team to stay in shape, but soon gained a sister, Robin, after friends introduced them at an athletics track meet.
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(WIDK By Rebecca Arden) – Remind me never to mess with a hippopotamus.
Paul Templar was 27-years-old, working as a river guide near Victoria Falls, along the border of Zimbabwe, in 1996, when he was attacked and eaten by a male hippopotamus … and he amazingly survived to share his story with the world.
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