Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe Woman considers 24th marriage ANDERSON, Ind., Feb. 18 (UPI) -- An Indiana woman who has been single for 12 years after 23 marriages said she hasn't ruled out getting married again. Advertisement Linda Lou Taylor, 68, who holds a Guinness World Record as the most married woman in history, said two of her husbands turned out to be gay, two ended up homeless, a few cheated on her, one choked her and another padlocked the refrigerator shut, Gannett News Service reported Wednesday. "It's easy to sum up," Taylor said of her oft-married life. "When I was younger I was just a snot-nosed kid but the neighborhood boys were all in love with me. They all wanted to marry me." Taylor said that despite her 23 failed marriages and being single for the past dozen years, she has not ruled out future matrimony. "I would get married again," she told Gannett, "because, you know, it gets lonely." Advertisement The family that skydives together... LAKE WALES, Fla., Feb. 18 (UPI) -- Four generations of a family came together in Lake Wales, Fla., to skydive together even though one member is 94, family members say. Darcy Shepard said in honor of her 18th birthday, family members from four generations took to the skies in parachutes last weekend, CNN reported Wednesday. While at 18 Shepard represented the youngest family member skydiving last Saturday, the teenager said her 94-year-old great-grandmother, Harriet, also took part in the family adventure. "If she can do it at 91, then I could, too," she said, referring to the fact her great-grandmother started skydiving three years earlier. Also among the family members were Harriett's 74-year-old son, Dave, and his 45-year-old son, Dallas. Darcy Shepard's father also took part in the activity, along with two of her cousins. Trevor Muir, Harriet's great-grandson, told CNN skydiving by the six family members and two friends was nothing strange for his family. "So what's skydiving? Just another notch in the pole," the 23-year-old said. "We've done a lot of crazy things." $250B hotel tip worthless in Britain LEEDS, England, Feb. 18 (UPI) -- Employees at a British hotel said they were ecstatic to receive a $250 billion tip -- until they discovered the money was Zimbabwean and worthless in Britain. Advertisement Clare Vidler, duty manager at the Metropole Hotel in Leeds, England, said a group left 25 billion-dollar notes for hotel staff before embarking on their trip back to Zimbabwe, where inflation is 23 million percent, The Sun reported Wednesday. "We thought we'd won the jackpot and imagined how we'd spend it. Then we realized it wouldn't even buy a penny chew," hotel worker Deborah Heather told The Sun. Boy, 3, rode train solo for half an hour NEW YORK, Feb. 18 (UPI) -- Police said a 3-year-old boy who wandered away from his mother at a New York McDonald's wound up riding the subway alone for about half an hour. Investigators said Christian Marquez, 3, wandered away from his mother, Marlene Marquez-Torres, shortly before 2 p.m. Tuesday while they were getting lunch at McDonald's, The New York Times reported Wednesday. The boy apparently walked to the nearby Main Street stop of the No. 7 line at Roosevelt Avenue, somehow bypassed the turnstiles and boarded a westbound train, police said. A transit worker heard an alert sent out by police after the boy was noticed missing told officers a young child had ridden the subway train alone through seven stations. Officers brought Marquez-Torres to meet her son at the 74th Street and Broadway subway stop at about 2:30 p.m. Advertisement "I'm going to watch him closer than ever," Marquez-Torres said after the reunion.
