Barking 'cops' arrest two suspects

Barking dogs are a common sight but barking cops can be considered as a very rare occurrence.

This what some police officers of the New Haven police department had to do when chasing two suspects who were wanted for stealing a car.

They had to improvise during a stand-off to coax the two suspects out of a house by literally barking like dogs. The stand-off came after investigators said the two men led them on a chase through Hamden into the Elm City. Officers were called to a home on Emerson Street at after masked men were seen entering the residence at 10:40 a.m.

The officer knew that the first floor was vacant, no one was home on the second floor and there was a family on the third floor who were told by police to lock their doors and stay put. A dozen officers surrounded the multi-family house. "He's pretty scared to get back into his house," said Gideon Gurley, who witnessed the stand-off. "It's not good for the neighbourhood." According to police, Kwame Wells-Jordan, 20, of Hamden and Norman Boone, 23, of New Haven were holed up in the stairwell of the home.

Police hostage negotiators threatened to unleash the canine units, but the dogs weren't available. So they had officers pretend to bark like dogs and it worked. The two men walked outside and were arrested on the spot."They were trained. These cops were trained to do stuff like that," Gurley said.

"I guess that was the best technique to do what they needed to do to get people out."

Wells-Jordan and Boone, who both have long criminal histories, were charged with theft of a motor vehicle and burglary.

The vehicle, which was stolen from Canada, was recovered by police.

Duped: Police in Connecticut lured out two suspects oled up in a house by barking like dogs and then took the men, both in their early twenties, into custody.

She buried the wrong cat

Just imagine the feeling you'll get when your dead pet comes back alive after a lapse of few days. But for Karen Jones it was completely a different experience. Heartbroken Keren shed a tear after the death of her beloved pet cat Norman only to discover she had buried the wrong animal.

Karen and her family were stunned when just a day after the funeral, their black moggie turned up in the kitchen and began eating his meal. Only then did Mrs Jones, 48, realise the dead cat she'd found in the road after it was hit by a car was not Norman.

'We couldn't believe it,' she explained. 'We just picked him up and started cuddling him.

'At first I thought he had been resurrected from the dead - but he didn't know what all the fuss was about.

'Then I realised we must have had the wrong cat. It was incredibly emotional because we had spent a whole day grieving.'Suddenly we found ourselves switching from tears of sadness to tears of joy.'

Mrs Jones, who ran to the garden to see if Norman had dug himself out of the ground, is hoping the owner of the cat buried in her garden in Ashford, Kent, comes forward.

Girl with four kidneys - a medical marvel!

She had been born with four kidneys and is regarded as a medical marvel. It was by accident this extremely rare privilege of having double the amount of kidneys was discovered.

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Jessica Curphey, 20, from Manchester, UK. was rushed to hospital after she developed an excruciating pain on her right sides. Just weeks earlier her GP had diagnosed a urine infection and had prescribed some antibiotics.

Surgeons at St Helier Hospital, in Surrey, discovered the four kidneys when they removed what they thought was a 17cm (6.5cm) cyst - found to be a rupture to one of her extra organs. Miss Curphey, who is from Manchester but studies at Surrey's University of Creative Arts, said: 'It's quite fun watching how people react when you tell them that you've got an extra kidney.

'I suppose it's weird not knowing what's going on inside your body until something happens like with me. "It was a difficult experience but I was looked after and I've come through it the other end and looking forward to the future.' 'On the upside, I don't get as bad hangovers like my friends, which is perhaps down to my extra kidneys.'

Scans revealed she actually had four kidneys, one of which was so damaged it had to be surgically removed Consultant urological surgeon Robyn Webber said: "Having three kidneys on a single side of the body is exceptionally rare. There are perhaps fewer than 100 cases describe in text books and papers." Hero helps catch burglar by pulling down his trousers.

Age, no bar to gain black belt in judo

At the age of 78 Irwin Eaton is fit as a fiddle and recently he was awarded the 2nd dan black belt in Judo.

A retired furniture salesman Irwin took up the sport after watching his cousin take part nearly 20 years ago and was awarded his first black belt as he celebrated his 70th birthday.

He said: "I love the fitness and it gives me real confidence. I just want to give people a bit of inspiration. You're only as old as you feel."

He is taught by 6th dan black belt Gary Donoughue, 58, whose youngest member at the Yorkshire Judo club in Oakwood, Leeds, is four.

The teacher said of his eldest pupil: "He's such a character. I've seen him go from a novice and I award him belts in every colour of the rainbow.

"All the kids get up and cheer him on, he's a joy to have in the judo club. Every week, Irwin has someone down on the mat. He is fit. Hopefully he'll still be doing it when he's 100."

And Mr Eaton, of Moortown, has no thoughts of giving up the sport.

He said: "I'll carry on as long as I can. I will be 80 in two years and that will just be the start of another challenge. I've got a lot left in me yet.