Ambulance stolen from Kaufman hospital

An ambulance was stolen from Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Kaufman and the suspect led police on a chase.Police said the suspect was a patient, identified as Jennifer Lee Luke, 34, who left the hospital's emergency room and sped away with the ambulance.

The 10-minute pursuit first by Kaufman city police and then by county units ended near Kemp, southeast of Kaufman, after deputies were able to get ahead of the fleeing vehicle to put down "spike strips" that deflated the tires and brought the ambulance to a halt on County Road 148.

Luke hit two cars and nearly ran over several pedestrians, Kaufman police said.

"The lady that took the ambulance... we'll never know why she did it," said Kaufman police Chief Dana Whitaker. "She was a patient over at the hospital, as far as we know, went out and got in it and took off... struck a car over there. As far as we know, nobody was hurt." Whitaker added that in his 37 years of law enforcement, he's never seen anything quite like this case.

Luke was taken into custody and booked at the Kaufman County Jail under a $180,000 bond. She has been charged with Theft of Property over $100K, Evading Arrest or Detention With A Vehicle, Aggravated Assault with a Deadly Weapon, and Duty on Striking Unattended Vehicle.

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Big ancient land-dwelling croc inspired:

'Abject Terror'

The "Carolina butcher" has been found and is just as scary as the name suggests.

Scientists said they had unearthed fossils in North Carolina of a big land-dwelling croc that lived about 231 million years ago, walked on its hind legs and was a top land predator right before the first dinosaurs appeared.

Transported back to the Triassic Period, what would a person experience upon encountering this agile, roughly 9-foot-long (about 3 meter-long), 5-foot-tall (about 1.5 meter-tall) beast with a long skull and blade-like teeth?"Abject terror," said North Carolina State University paleontologist Lindsay Zanno, who led the research published in the journal Scientific Reports.

"Climb up the nearest tree," advised North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences paleontologist Vince Schneider.The creature is named Carnufex carolinensis, meaning "Carolina butcher," for its menacing features. It was a very early member of the croc lineage and was unlike today's crocs. It was not aquatic and not a quadruped, instead prowling on two legs in the warm equatorial region that North Carolina was at the time.

It lived alongside armored plant-eating reptiles known as aetosaurs, early mammal relatives and other fierce predators such as the large, long-snouted, water-dwelling, four-legged phytosaurs.

Carnufex is one of the most primitive members of the broad category of reptiles called crocodylomorphs, encompassing the various forms of crocs that have appeared on Earth.

"As one of the earliest and oldest crocodylomorphs, Carnufex was a far cry from living crocodiles. It was an agile, terrestrial predator that hunted on land," Zanno said. "Carnufex predates the group that living crocodiles belong to."

The scientists unearthed portions of Carnufex's skull, spine and forelimb parts from a Chatham County quarry.

Then also created a three-dimensional model of the skull, filling in the missing parts with the more complete skulls of close relatives.Carnufex lived just before the appearance of the first dinosaurs, which started as modest creatures in the Triassic before becoming Earth's dominant land animals.

Zanno said Carnufex's discovery underscores the notion that before dinosaurs became well established in North America, such crocs and their cousins filled the large predator roles.

While the dinosaur lineage eventually produced the world's largest terrestrial predators, it was the crocs and their cousins that typically were the Triassic tough guys.

A group related to crocs called rauisuchians included large four-legged land predators up to 25 feet (about 8 meters) in length or more.

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They met 16 yYears before blind date

Imagine the joy- or the sheer terror - when you discover that you were always meant to be with the person you are married to.New Jersey couple Jourdan and Ryan Spencer discovered recently that their debut date in 2004 wasn't really the first time they had crossed paths. They had first seen each other 16 years before that, as children. While watching home videos together, they came across footage from 1988 when a 10-year-old Jourdan and her family were visiting an amusement park in Pennsylvania. A little boy on the screen suddenly caught Ryan's eye. 'Wow, he looks like me,' said Ryan, reports ABC News.

Turns out, the 13-year-old bespectacled boy was actually Ryan. He is now 40.

In the clip, Jourdan's mother and sister are seen waiting for Jourdan to return from a water slide. As she approaches the family's meeting spot, 13-year-old Ryan walks into the frame.

The couple then rewound the video and kept watching it several times, because they just couldn't believe what they saw.

In a strange coincidence, Ryan and Jourdan were introduced 16 years later on a blind date. They got married in 2007, and now live in New Jersey with their three children Sophia, Max and Mabel.

The video that shows when they met as kids has now gone viral with over 3 million views.

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