A cyclist passes the Bank of Canada building in Ottawa July 19, 2011. REUTERS/Chris WattieIf you're biking after sunset in San Francisco, and a cop pulls you over, there's no need to panic. You're likely to be handed a bike light, not a ticket.

The Light Up the Night initiative, a joint effort from the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition (SFBC) and the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, is providing 2,000 red-and-white blinking bike lights, free of charge, to cyclists riding after dark.

"The idea here is we're set up at little stations along busy bike routes, particularly during the evening rush hour between 5 and 7 p.m. when it's already dark," Leah Shahum, executive director of the SFBC, told GOOD, adding that the free lights are part of a larger safety plan "focusing on how to make biking safer and more comfortable and how to make it more inviting for people who aren't yet riding."

Volunteers and select city staff will flag down the after-dark bikers and install free front and rear LED lights on their bikes.

"Distributing the lights directly to riders allows us

Some of us keep a daily journal. Denis Chapon draws.

From 2008 until 2011, the French artist and animator drew 12 pictures a day on the backside of used A4 paper. Chapon then compiled and animated his pen drawings — "He turned each day's work into one second of an animated film," GOOD reports — into a captivating four-minute "stream of consciousness short" appropriately titled "12 Drawings a Day."

"I had no plans whatsoever before starting the first drawing," Chapon wrote on Vimeo.

If you look closely, you will see the date of each drawing is in the bottom right corner.

Pogo sticking might not be the first activity to pop into your head when you hear the word "extreme," but a few of the world's most renowned pogoists are about to change that.

Equipped with six GoPro HD cameras, the best of the best, including extreme pogo star Fred Grzybowski, showcased their gravity-defying skills for xpogo films.

Pogo Sticks don't have to be left behind in childhood.

In this 1977 image provided by 20th Century-Fox Film Corporation, from left, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, and Mark Hamill are shown in a scene from "Star Wars" movie released by 20th Century-Fox. (AP Photo/20th Century-Fox Film Corporation)Star Wars memorabilia can be expensive, but a recent auction bid set a new all-time high: an anonymous buyer paid a record $625,000 for a late-'60s Panavision PSR 35mm camera used in the 1977 film.

At least the fully restored camera still works. The camera package included two 1000-foot magazines, a Panaspeed motor, matte box, follow focus, a Moy geared head, and an Italian-made Elemack camera dolly and lens.

The camera went for more than three times its estimated value: $200,000.

The camera was part of Debbie Reynold's personal movie-memorabilia collection. The mother of Carrie Fisher (Star Wars' Princess Leia) opted to sell most of her collection after plans for a museum fell through.

Until the sale of the camera, the highest price paid for a piece of the Star Wars legacy was $402,500 for a miniature TIE fighter model in 2008.

Star Wars still has selling power. At the same auction, a Panavision camera used during the filming of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey was sold for

German janitor Tanja Höls had walked past an old inlaid wooden box in one of the storerooms in the Passau state library in Bavaria countless times.

One day, about two weeks ago, as she was going about her rounds, she decided to peek inside.

"The box itself was fairly unspectacular, it looked like a big jewellery box, with lots of little drawers inside," Höls told The Local.

"So I pulled open one of the drawers and there were some coins in it. And I pulled a couple more open, and there were more coins — lots of different ones, different sizes and different metals."

She took her discovery of 172 silver, brass and bronze coins to Markus Wennerhold, the head of the library, who had no idea the coins were there. He was thrilled with her find: the ancient coins are worth at least "a low six-figure sum."

"There are coins there from ancient Rome and Greece, as well as from the Byzantine era, as well as medals from the baroque period and Napoleonic times," he said, adding that they'll go on

It was a bride-to-be's worst nightmare: a engaged Thai woman had her wedding dress stolen the morning before her big day.

The bride arrived in Chicago from Thailand on Thursday, in advance of her wedding on Saturday, meeting up with her fiance from Iowa.

"I thought (Chicago) would be a romantic area to get married in and spend the weekend in," the fiance, identified only as C..J., told the Chicago Sun-Times. "We thought being in the big city, it was kind of romantic to get married here. We'd spend some time here and on our anniversaries we'd be able to come back."

The soon-to-be-newlyweds parked their silver 2008 Kia Optima in Chicago's Lakeview neighbourhood. By morning, it was gone — the wedding dress was inside.

In the early hours of Saturday morning, officers spotted a suspicious looking vehicle, complete with a hard-plastic replacement window. They ran the license plates.

Discovering that the car was considered a "fresh steal," the cops pulled over the vehicle for inspection.

He's man's best friend — and partner in extreme sports.

A military dog named Axe and his owner, a soldier who lost both his feet in an explosion earlier in the year, recently jumped out of a plane together.

"I am still rocking!" the unnamed soldier wrote to DefenseTech. "For those who haven't heard, I was blown up, with my MWD (military working dog), Axe, Feb 17th of this year. I lost both of my feet, and was back to work in July…"

With Axe strapped to his chest, the prosthetic-wearing soldier proved that injury doesn't dictate lack of adventure.

Skip to 3:12 to watch their skydive.

Emmanuel Williams, 17, says he noticed something was wrong with his bus driver when he boarded the bus that day.

The 65-year-old driver's eyes kept closing as he swerved along his bus route, collecting students for Mount Tahoma High School.

Williams watched the driver closely, and then sprung from his seat and ran to the front of the bus when he saw the driver's head drop, nodding off while entering an onramp.

"I was looking at him and his eyes would close, and when we'd get to a turn, he'd look both ways, start driving again, and they would close more and more," Williams told KOMO-TV.

"And as soon as I see his head go down, and I see the bus go back to the freeway, I hop up, get to the front of the bus as fast as I can. Something would have happened if I didn't get up."

Video surveillance of the incident shows Williams grabbing the driver's hand, looking him in the eye, and then sitting directly behind the driver. Once alert, the driver braked.

Twenty-five students were on board.

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