Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for November 21, 2017

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    Templo S.U.D.  over 6 years ago

    Father should give his idea too all other places of worship (Latter-day Saint wards/branches, Jehovah’s Witnesses’ Kingdom Halls, Muslim mosques, Jewish synagogues, etc.)

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    colddonkey  over 6 years ago

    In the US signal jammers are illegal, but I’d love to have one myself.

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    Dkram  over 6 years ago

    All you need is a Faraday cage. (see wikipedia faraday_cage)

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    NeedaChuckle Premium Member over 6 years ago

    I read a story where a priest banned drinking cocoa during services. It was some tropical island and the women would always drink cocoa. He was found dead soon after banning it.

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    MY DOG IS MY CO PILOT  over 6 years ago

    There is a shop on Suffolk England called Boxford’s that has been open since 1429 some 329 years longer than Brooks Brothers and 63 years before Columbus sailed to America.

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    GaryCooper  over 6 years ago

    It’s a good thing the girl was safe, but it can’t have been good for the people she fell on.

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    pearlsbs  over 6 years ago

    I guess RBON thought it wouldn’t be so hard to believe if they just said Brooks Brothers was founded in 1818.

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    h.v.greenman  over 6 years ago

    If Brooks Brothers wasnt founded until 1818, where did the graduates from Harvard (founded in 1636), Yale (founded in 1701) and Princeton (founded in 1746) all buy their “Yuppie Power Suits”?

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    57BelAir  over 6 years ago

    And a girl lost both feet on the Superman ride at Six Flags in Louisville in 2013.

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    Stephen Gilberg  over 6 years ago

    Were any of the people below hurt?

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    finnygirl Premium Member over 6 years ago

    Here is clip, compliments of the online Miami Herald, regarding the girl and her life-savers. "QUEENSBURY, N.Y. Matthew Howard Sr. was just leaving a New York amusement park Saturday evening when he heard someone screaming. He looked up to see a young girl dangling about 25 feet (about 8 meters) off the ground from a slow-moving gondola ride. Her little brother sat next to her in the green two-person pod, crying hysterically for help, saying he couldn’t hold on. Howard, 47, and his 21-year-old daughter, Leeann Winchell, positioned themselves under the girl as the ride stopped and security came running. A crowd of onlookers gathered, many filming, others calling for help. “I said: ‘It’s ‘OK! It’s OK to let go, I’ll catch you, honey. I’m not going to let you fall,’ ” said Howard. The girl lost her grip and fell down where Howard and Winchell, and others, were waiting. The two took the brunt of the girl’s fall, tumbling to the ground themselves the catch. The two and some other good Samaritans carried to her to where emergency workers later arrived to help her.

    Howard, a contractor from Schenectady, was treated and released for a minor back injury after the rescue. “I couldn’t let that little girl die,” Howard told The Associated Press on Sunday. “No one wants to put himself underneath a body like that, but I couldn’t stand by and watch.” The 14-year-old girl from Greenwood, Delaware, was taken to Albany Medical Center in stable condition with no serious injuries, the Warren County Sheriff’s Office said. Winchell, who is applying to be a nurse, said they visited the girl Sunday at the hospital and she was in good spirits. Her little brother was shaken up but uninjured otherwise, she said. They didn’t know how she’d fallen out of the ride. “I’m just glad we could be there to help,” Winchell said. “We were in the right place at the right time.”

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