With the new movie Tag coming out soon, the game of tag is coming back into the spotlight, even for us adults. But while we’re all excited for the summer blockbuster, what some people might not know about the movie is that it’s actually based on a true story… We all remember playing tag on the elementary school playground, running around to tackle our friends. The rules are simple: if you’re “it”, try to tag…
Nicole recently stopped to fill her gas tank on her way to work in Apple Valley, Minnesota. It was a particularly freezing day, and the temperature dropped under 10 degrees. While waiting in her car, she noticed a middle-aged man standing at the pump, crying. “I began to wonder what happened with this man and as I got out of my car and looked at him my heart felt like it stopped,” Nicole wrote on…
Facebook Twitter Pinterest “Mad” was the word his wife described him as when Wesley Hamnett told her about his plan to a bike 220 miles from Glasgow all the way to Manchester in order to help raise money for four different charities. When he spoke to Glasgow Live, Wesley recalled, “I said to the missus: ‘I’m going to do it, what do you think?’ She went: ‘you’re mad, but just go for it!’” And so, it was settled.…
After dating for one year, a man named Terry gifted his girlfriend Anna with a handmade wooden necklace decorated with a shell. She wore it every day, no matter what she was doing, but it wasn’t until more than a year later that she realized what had been hiding inside the whole time. According to the Independent, Terry crafted the unique piece of jewelry out of Tasmanian wood and gave it to Anna on their one-year…
Two North Carolina doctors have been reprimanded for performing a caesarian on a woman, only to discover she wasn’t pregnant at all. The incident — a rare case of pseudocyesis or a false or hysterical pregnancy — happened at the Cape Fear Medical Center in Fayetteville, N.C. The woman reportedly appeared at the hospital with her husband asking for a C-section. A resident in charge made the pregnancy diagnosis and doctors agreed to surgery after trying to induce labor for two…
ABC 10 News / Youtube Melissa Smith from San Diego, California, was on her usual errand routine when she spotted the panhandler again. On this day, in particular, something just felt off. Melissa decided to trust her intuition and investigate a little further. She stood by her car pumping gas when she noticed the beggar and her little boy standing behind the shopping center. But when she saw where they went, she was incredulous.…
Get The Tissues Ready Imagine being left outside. Fearful and scared. Abandoned by all you’ve known. For one pup, this was his reality. Left outside in a Walmart Parking Lot, a loveable Golden Retriever found himself with no owners and no home until one day a couple saw the pup and took him in to foster. Soon after taking him in, Jenny Leech and her husband, Scott, discovered that this sweet, adorable fur baby had terminal cancer that had…
Instagram/@mission_driven_goods Meet Queen. She’s adorable and friendly, but she’s also spent over 400 days in the Great Plains SPCA animal shelter. Instagram/@mission_driven_goods After over a year in the shelter, Queen had started to lose hope of every being adopted – until a hero stepped up with an unlikely plan to find her forever home. Instagram/@mission_driven_goods Scott Poore left corporate America behind to focus on his true passion: improving the lives of dogs around the country.…
There is a church in Brazil where homeless dogs always have a special place on the altar during mass. Padre João Paulo de Araujo Gomes always has a stray dog join him on the altar through mass every Sunday in order for the entire congregation to see them. While it might seem like a small gesture, it actually has made a big difference to the forgotten dogs of Gravatá. Facebook/Padre João Paulo de Araujo Gomes Padre Gomes…
Dexter (L) has been saved by vets after he ate three feet of tinsel. (SWNS) A dog has nearly died after eating a three-foot length of Christmas tinsel. Great Dane Dexter was rushed to the vet when his owners realised a strip of the festive decoration was missing from their mantelpiece on Monday. Staff at the PDSA clinic in Margate took the 10-year-old dog straight into emergency surgery after an x-ray confirmed he had something…