Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe Doll's hand on beach fooled everyone WASAGA BEACH, Ontario, June 17 (UPI) -- A tiny hand found on a Canadian beach was a remarkably lifelike synthetic creation that fooled even the local coroner, the Toronto Star reported Thursday. Advertisement The discovery of the hand by a woman and her young son at Wasaga Beach, 90 miles north of Toronto, led to the beach's closure, the deployment of dive teams and cadaver-sniffing dogs. But Dr. Jim Cairns of the Ontario chief coroner's office says everyone was fooled. A careful rinse of the mud and sand caked on the appendage provided the right perspective. It was so lifelike, Cairns said he couldn't blame the woman who found it, police officers or the local coroner for thinking it was human. Alina Cimachowski, who found it, told the newspaper it initially crossed her mind the hand could be that of a doll, but when she looked closely she thought the tiny fingernails and lines in the knuckles were so lifelike that she called police. Advertisement "They were really human lines," she said. Sleeping man disrupts rush hour OSLO, Norway, June 17 (UPI) -- A man sleeping in a busy Norway railway tunnel halted rush hour traffic Thursday. The man was seen going into the tunnel connecting Oslo's Central Station with the city's equally busy National Theater station. The tunnel was closed and a search started. After an hour of searching failed to turn up the man, police were called in with a team of dogs to find him. The dogs took just five minutes to locate him, where he had laid down and fallen asleep, Aftenposten said. The nap seriously disrupted morning rush-hour traffic, as well as train travel for long-distance passengers, the newspaper said. Stranded travelers formed long lines at downtown taxi stands in an effort to find alternative modes of transportation. Quick cop thwarts robbers DURBAN, South Africa, June 17 (UPI) -- The acting skills of a quick-witted policeman thwarted four robbers who held up a South Africa post office this week. The armed men entered the Mooi River Post Office on Tuesday and demanded cash from the teller. After helping themselves to money, the robbers drove away. They abandoned the car at a drug store and escaped in another vehicle. Advertisement However, they left behind one of their men and police arrested him. When a cellphone inside the car rang, one of the officers answered it, pretending to be the left-behind robber, the Mercury said. One of other suspects was on the line and, thinking he was talking with his confederate, agreed to a meeting. The police were waiting. Tucson horse slashings were an inside job TUCSON, June 17 (UPI) -- The mysterious rash of slashing attacks on horses at an Arizona dude ranch was declared solved Thursday. KOLD-TV in Tucson said hands at the Tanque Verde Guest Ranch discovered this week that the strange cuts on the their herd were caused by one of the horses and not by some late-night marauder. As many as 20 animals were found in recent weeks with ugly cuts on their necks, leading to the assumption that some unbalanced prowler was trying to kill or mutilate the animals; however it turned out that the injuries were caused by another horse who tends to bite. The offending equine was placed in a separate corral for what could be a lengthy time out.
