Man Driving 130 MPH ‘Wanted To See His Cat’ [Weird News & Oddities] – Patch.com

Comforting people who are feeling puny during the rampant cold and flu season just got more convenient — or weirder. You decide.

In a publicity stunt designed to revive interest in its brand, Progresso rolled out “soup you can suck on.” The company claims its Soup Drops are packed with “the classic, hearty flavor of Progresso Chicken Noodle Soup.”
Why slurp up the soup’s “savory veggies, chicken, soft egg noodles and a hint of parsley” when you can keep those flavors in your mouth for the time it takes to suck a hard-candy lozenge into nothingness?
Whether consumers feel so comforted by Soup Drops that they can’t face the viral storm season without it or just think it’s freaky in the pumpkin spice Spam sense, all the hard candies have been snapped up.
State troopers are accustomed to world-class excuses from people who speed down the highway like they’re in a rocket on wheels.
A 28-year-old Norwalk, Connecticut, man clocked at 130 mph on I-395 last weekend told the trooper who pulled him over that he was speeding because he “wanted to get home to see his cat,” state police said in a news release.
He later failed a field sobriety test, police said.
A baby born in southern California last weekend has a cool birth story to share when she’s able to talk.
Cal Fire/Riverside County firefighters and medics brought her into the world in an ambulance after getting a 911 call from the expectant mom around 6 the morning of Saturday, Jan. 25.

Ten minutes into the trip to a Southwest Riverside County hospital, the baby would wait no longer to be born. She was born along Interstate 15
The results of a medical checkup looked like a heartbreaking turn for Daisy Duke, one of the dogs waiting to be adopted from the Mission Viejo Animal Services Center in California.
The 1-year-old dog was diagnosed with an atrioventricular block in her heart and veterinarians said she wouldn’t survive without intervention by a specialist.
Daisy Duke was referred to cardiologist Dr. Seung Woo Jung at Echo Vet Cardio in Tustin. Jung discounted his services, but the lifesaving surgery was still expensive. That’s where the Mission Viejo shelter’s nonprofit comes in.
“Thankfully, MVAS has an amazing nonprofit — Dedicated Animal Welfare Group — which raises money for situations like this, and the group did not hesitate to pay for her surgery,” Animal Services Director Brynn Lavison told Patch.
DAWG, as the charity is known, is accepting donations to pay for the Jan. 16 surgery. Daisy Duke, meanwhile is recovering nicely.
A Detroit day care center that sometimes served raw chicken and curdled sour milk to the toddlers in its care was shut down Wednesday for multiple health concerns, Michigan state education department officials said.
Officials said they suspended the license of the day care inside the Antioch Church of God in Christ about a week after getting reports of rotten food, putrid smells and other health concerns.
Staff members told inspectors they had been forced into a situation of having to buy their own cleaning supplies, with some saying they were no longer willing to do that on their own dime, according to the suspension order.

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