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    • The instructor only had a grip on Everett as the two plummeted toward the ground

      Laverne Everett went skydiving to mark her 80th birthday, but the jump didn't go quite according to plan.

      In a video that has gone viral, we see Everett slipping through the harness that attaches her to the instructor she is doing the tandem jump with. Everett clings to her instructor as they plunge to the Earth at about 200 kilometres per hour.

      The Federal Aviation Administration is now investigating.

      While the near-death ordeal is enough to leave most people shaking a for a long time, Everett can now laugh about it.

      "I just wanted to do it," Everett said laughing in an exclusive interview with CBS Sacramento.

      Everett jumped last year at the Sky dive Lodi Parachute Center in Acampo, Calif., but the video is just now taking off after her sister posted the video online to share the experience with out-of-state relatives.

      While it looks like she is hesitant to jump, Everett said the instructor didn't force

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    • The male driver is believed to have run a red light initially causing the collision

      The weather was great in the Toronto area over the weekend, but one man didn't have such a good day on Sunday.

      Toronto police say a man got into a collision with a nun and then had his iPhone stolen.

      Staff Sgt. Katie Shaw told CBC it happened just after 6 a.m. when police believe the male driver ran a red light and struck a car at Keele Street and Eglinton Avenue, which was being driven by a nun, who was on her way to church. The impact of the crash sent the nun's vehicle through an empty bus shelter and into a garbage bin.

      The male driver got out his iPhone and tried to call 911, but was too shaken up to make the phone call. A passerby offered to help, but ran off with the phone right after the driver passed it over to him.

      While some may say this guy is having a bad day, others may attribute the robbery to instant karma.

      The driver has been charged with careless driving and according to the Toronto

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    • The child wrote a letter to the game pioneer challenging the board game for its gender stereotypes and unrealistic socioeconomic living situations

      A nine-year-old-boy has written a letter to Milton Bradley criticizing the new version of the Game of Life and calling it unfair for what participants are supposed to do to succeed.

      Nick Packard starts off by pointing out that there are no black people in the game and writes, "you must get married to someone of the opposite sex and you can't be gay or lesbian." He attacks the girls are pink and boys are blue stereotype and comes down hard on the game for teaching kids that money, marriage, a well-paying job and a house will make people happy.

      The letter is going viral.

      It's unclear if parents put Packard up to writing this or how big of an influence they had on the letter, but the kid has a point.

      Today, many people are finding happiness without marrying people of the opposite sex. Many, at least in Canada, are marrying people of the same

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    • Construction is set to begin on the $12 million attraction in Vaughan, Ont., this summer

      If you enjoy playing with Lego and seeing the amazing sculptures of blocks, get excited. Legoland is coming to the Toronto area.

      Merlin Entertainments, which operates 90 attractions including Sea Life, Madame Tussauds, the London Eye and Legoland, announced it'll build a $12 million Legoland Discovery Centre at Vaughan Mills Shopping Centre, which is about 30 kilometres north of Toronto near Canada's Wonderland.

      "The Legoland Discovery Centre concept is already successful in both Europe and the USA, and I know people will love it here in Canada, which is a very important development market for Merlin," said Glenn Earlam, managing director of Merlin's Midway Attractions Operating Group, in a statement. "We are absolutely delighted to be opening our first attraction here."

      According to the statement, the attraction will offer a range of play areas, a brick pool, rides, party rooms for birthday

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    • The twisters provided the perfect backdrop for wedding photos

      Couples often look for interesting places or backdrops for saying their "I dos", but a Kansas couple may have found the most memorable place.

      Caleb and Candra Pence thought they found the perfect one-of-a-kind backdrop with an farmhouse, however it was mother nature that provided them the best image. They got married and took photos just miles away from where a tornado touched down in Harper County, Kansas.

      "It's just Kansas, it's just who we are, it's like wheat fields, cowboys and tornadoes; what more can you ask for?" said Carla Pence, the groom's mother, to KSNW-TV. She said the tornado didn't look like it was heading toward them and if it did they would rush to the basement.

      As the video shows, the ceremony continues as no one appears to panic. When the ceremony ends people begin taking out their phones and cameras to capture the moment.

      "The tornadoes were actually coming down throughout the ceremony...It was the most

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    • In honour of Roger Waters announcing a Quebec City stop, a Yahoo! Quebec cartoon is comparing the theme of The Wall album and the current student protests in Quebec.


      Some people in Quebec believe what's happening in their province right now is similar to the theme of the album, which is about violent state attacking its own citizens. The album cover is shown with Quebec Premier Jean Charest. The hammers are in reference to communists and there is a red flag on Charest's tongue for the students on strike.

      This probably wasn't what Charest was expecting his legacy to be.

      The image has has gone viral on Facebook and Twitter and was reported by Radio-Canada.

      Rogers Waters' revival tour for Pink Floyd's The Wall will make a stop in Quebec City on July 31 with a newly announced show on the Plains of Abraham. It'll be the biggest Wall show since his performance at the Berlin Wall in 1990.

      (Yahoo! Quebec cartoon)

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    • The man was camping over the long weekend when he passed out on railroad tracks

      A drunken Alberta man has survived after being run over by an 8,000-tonne freight train while camping over the long weekend near Elko, B.C.

      The man's life was saved because he was so intoxicated that he completely passed out and didn't move despite the roar of the diesel engine and the screeching of the train as it tried to stop. He just lay on the tracks and the train passed right over him.

      "I can't imagine being so passed out that you wouldn't hear a train," said Sgt. Dave Dubnyk with Elk Valley RCMP to QMI. "But if he had, and the train had startled him into sitting up or moving, it would have been tragic."

      According to the CBC, the train's engineer spotted the many lying on the tracks, blew the whistle and slammed on the brakes, but wasn't able to stop in time.

      "It was unable to stop and went right over top of this gentleman and by the time the train stopped they were actually at the 26th car and this

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    • Inca and Rayas are already incubating the egg and getting ready to be parents

      The Toronto Zoo may have separated "gay" penguins Buddy and Pedro, but zookeepers in Madrid are taking a different approach with their all-male couple.

      Inca and Rayas, the couple at Madrid's Faunia Park, have been given an egg to take care of.

      "We wanted them to have something to stay together for - so we got an egg," said zookeeper Yolanda Martin in a Telegraph article. "Otherwise they might have become depressed."

      The couple has had to watch other penguins raise their young.

      According to the Telegraph, Inca has taken on the role of incubating the donated egg and sits like a statue atop it while Rayas watches the nest and eats as much as he can in preparation of having to feed the little one regurgitated food.

      Martin said it's great to cheer people up as Spain is in an economic turmoil, but notes the pair actually isn't gay. They are just best friends who have been together for six years.

      "When you put

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    • A three-year-old boy has escaped unharmed after driving his toy motorcycle into a busy intersection in China.

      According to reports, the boy's grandfather was watching him Monday, but when the grandfather went to the bathroom the boy disappeared.

      As the video shows, the toddler slowly makes his way into the massive Wenzhou intersection, in China's Zhejiang Province. Cars and buses manage to miss him, but don't stop to help.

      A police officer eventually spotted the boy and led him out of the intersection and to safety.

    • The future of new companies and technology may be out to sea - on a giant cruise ship.

      A four-person Sunnyvale startup, backed by prominent investor Peter Thiel, is working on a barge that will be anchored about 19 kilometres off the coast of California. They say the community will solve the problems of immigration red tape and the overpriced housing market in Silicon Valley.

      It will be able to hold about 1,000 entrepreneurs and allow them to work a short distance from startup founders and venture capitalists without needing a U.S. working permit.

      "Blueseed is a visa-free startup incubator, 12 miles offshore from Silicon Valley, on a vessel in international waters outside the jurisdiction of the United States," reads the website.

      They boast "awesome hackerspace," accommodation to fit any budget, daily ferry rides to the mainland and of course no one needs a visa to start working there.

      The goal is to have entrepreneurs come from anywhere in the world and connect into Silicon Valley and

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