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A New Hampshire man was killed in a freak accident when he tied his hammock to a tree — only to have it fall and crush him to death as he was lounging in the wilderness, authorities said. Edward Murphy, 50, had tied the hammock at a tent site near the Wild River Trail in Bean’s Purchase – but it soon crashed down, the New Hampshire Department of Fish and Game said in a press release. “There was no evidence of foul play and all indications point to this being a tragic accident,” the release said.

Astonished residents of a city in the Republic of Georgia captured footage of what appeared to be a man riding in a drone-carried hammock. Video captured by witnesses in Khashuri shows what appears to be a man lounging in a hammock carried high over the city by a large hexacopter drone.

A Grace College freshman volleyball player died Friday in a freak accident after a large tree fell on her, according to Winona Lake police. Police were called about midnight Friday to the 800 block of Esplanade Street, just west of the Grace College campus, after a passer-by reported hearing someone yell for help. According to Larry Ladd, an investigator for the Kosciusko County Coroner’s Office, Kastner and Mohr were sitting in a hammock strung between two trees. One of the trees was rotted at the base, and the tree fell. “It looked like possibly the weight of them being in...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Doris Thompson hasn't let age slow her down. At 80, she's still ransacking and burglarizing medical offices. Thompson, whose criminal record stretches back to 1955, pleaded guilty Wednesday to taking about $1,400 from the Children's Medical Group in suburban Torrance. During the hearing, the amiable 5-foot-3 woman who ties her gray pigtails with white bows, thanked the judge for letting her serve her time in state prison rather than county jail.