Icarus Falls

Hmmm-

A 20-year-old was killed in a ‘Starsky and Hutch’-style stunt trying to jump 30ft across a harbour in his car.

Jamie Hocking had told friends he would one day use a pier as a ramp and leap over the water in his Rover hatchback and land on the other side.

Well who could have foreseen that this was a bad idea?

Funny If True.

This sounds as though it could be apocryphal, a story that's too good to fact check:

Residents and pirates in the Somali port of Haradhere told the Associated Press that the boat, which was carrying eight men, overturned in a storm after dozens of pirates left the Sirius Star following a two-month standoff in the Gulf of Aden.

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Local sources said that the ransom payment held by the eight pirates on their get away boat had been lost at sea.

It would be particularly fitting if it were the weight of all the cash that caused the boat to capsize.