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Atlantic Sailor Sends Mayday To His Favorite Pub

A British yachtsman thousands of miles from home and seriously injured during a solo transatlantic voyage managed to summon help from an unlikely but familiar source: his local pub.

Alan Thompson, 61, an experienced sailor, broke his pelvis while sailing 600 miles northeast of Bermuda on Saturday.

He was in severe pain and hardly able to move but he managed to use his satellite phone to call the Bull’s Head in Fishbourne, West Sussex.

Man Accidentally Hangs Self

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (Reuters) - A man was recovering in a Vancouver-area hospital after an attempt to film a mock hanging as a stunt accidentally became the real thing, police said on Thursday.

The 23-year-old man thought he had protected himself by wearing a harness when he went to a suburban park on Wednesday to have a friend record him dangling lifelessly from a tree, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said.

“Unfortunately things did not go as planned and the male was unintentionally hung from the rope he had placed around his neck,” according to a police spokesman who said the friend initially did not realize anything was wrong.

Man Throws Christmas Tree And Self Out Window

BERLIN (Reuters) - A German man threw himself out of a third story window along with a Christmas tree during a late-night attempt to dispose of his festive decorations.

The man fell 22 feet from his flat after he lost his balance throwing the tree onto the street on Saturday, police in the western city of Moenchengladbach said. The tree did not break the victim’s fall.

“There’s a TV advert showing people having fun throwing their old Christmas trees out the window,” said police spokesman Willy Thevessen on Monday. “But you’re not supposed to jump with them.”

The man was taken to hospital in critical condition with severe injuries after eyewitnesses saw him fall.