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Boston police are being warned to check their cars before driving off after a cop's vehicle was tampered with. The officer, whose name is not being released, was driving away from the police department's District 1 station, in central Boston, yesterday when his rear wheel came off. He was not injured in the incident but when the cop took the car to the shop for repairs, a mechanic found the car had been tampered with. Someone had loosened or removed the lug nuts holding the wheel in place before he drove away. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3697644/Boston-cops-warned-check-wheel-nuts-personal-cars-officer-s-vehicle-tampered-station-wheel-fell-drove-away.html#ixzz4EtFnQFnq Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter...

A Croatian man got a nasty surprise when he tried to get out of his deck chair and found his testicles had got stuck. Mario Visnjic had gone swimming naked in the sea at the Valalta beach in western Croatia. His testicles had shrunk while in the cool sea and slipped through the wooden slats when he sat back down on his wooden deckchair. But as he lay in the sun they expanded back to normal size and got stuck between the slats. He was eventually freed after he called beach maintenance services on his mobile phone and they sent...

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. CATONSVILLE, Md. -- Two wheels fell off a public transit bus in the 18th such incident in less than a year, frustrating officials who thought they had solved the problem. No injuries were reported when the bus, carrying 16 passengers, lost both of its right rear wheels Wednesday. One of the 200-pound wheels rolled onto a grassy embankment; the other fell over next to the bus. After the accident, Transportation Secretary John D. Porcari ordered every Maryland Transit Administration bus reinspected before being allowed back on the streets. "If there's any...