…by a paramedic. Paramedics left the scene with other injured people, leaving the dead man in the car.

An emergency crew came – thirty minutes later – to cut the body out of the car.

And found a pulse in the body.

It’s not April Fool’s Day in Australia. (Video here.)

Update, Monday, April 2: Wow, more details coming in:

The man was critically injured when his vehicle collided with a four-wheel drive near Bacchus Marsh, west of Melbourne, about 2am (AEST) on Sunday.

Two intensive-care paramedics pronounced him dead when they couldn’t find a pulse and were later called back urgently to treat him.

Tow-truck driver Trevor Oliver said the man was left in the car for about an hour and spent another 40 minutes lying critically injured on the ground before emergency services realised there had been a mistake.

“The SES got the driver out of the car, wrapped him in a tarp and sat him on the side of the road and for about 40 minutes we sat there watching his feet move,” he told AAP.

“It was only when the coroner’s representative turned up to pick up the body, and the SES and the coroner’s representative went to pick up the body and they noticed that something was odd and (discovered) he still had a very weak pulse.”

Man oh man. Just awful.

Oops:

Denmark’s national lottery company Danske Spil accidentally sent emails to hundreds of customers congratulating them on being billionaire lottery winners…

The news agency says one of the winners, Flemming Dahl told the Nordjyske newspaper that he got an e-mail informing him he had won the equivalent of US$3.8 billion.

“My heart leapt and I started thinking of all the things I was going to do with the money: take my family on holiday, buy a new house, a new car,” he reportedly told the site.

Ow. Ow ow ow.

|saddest dog in the world pic from here|

It’d be pretty cool to get a number like this for countries all over the world – including the U.S. and Canada:

“Like many peasants from the outskirts of Yanan, China, Ren Shouhua was born in a cave and lived there until he got a job in the city and moved into a concrete-block house.

His progression made sense as he strove to improve his life. But there’s a twist: The 46-year-old Ren plans to move back to a cave when he retires.”

How about you, BRI fans – any of you ever reside in a cave?

What century are we in again?

It looks like a castle from the outside, but federal authorities say life inside was not a happy fairy tale for an illegal immigrant held in a “forced labor situation” to do housework and child care by the lady of the palace known as Llenroc.

Annie George, 39, of Rexford, is accused of inducing a woman from India to reside in the country and confining her at the mansion for nearly three years, a federal criminal complaint alleges.

The woman — identified only as “V.M.” — worked from dawn to late in the evening seven days a week, cooking and cleaning and caring for George’s six children, the complaint said. She is entitled to more than $200,000, but was paid far less and was forced to live in a closet, authorities said.

Just one image from “Llenroc Estate”:

That’s just one. Go see more, please!

Is it just us, or does it seem like the guy who wrote this story ate some naughty mushrooms before doing so:

Chinese authorities are investigating claims that so-called ‘ping pong eggs’ circulating throughout the country are making men sterile.

The eggs, which bounce after being boiled, have been appearing in “small numbers” and are suspected to be fake due to them being too hard to eat.

Whaaa?

Dang. And we actually liked that “Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm” song.

Oh wait…

The rollercoaster that costs an arm and a leg: Thorpe Park’s new £20m ride The Swarm has urgent redesign after dummies return from test run with limbs snapped off .

You know what this means don’t you? That millions of people will want to ride that rollercoaster. (It’s probably why we’re seeing those pics, eh?)

Pics of limbless dummies over there.

Uh…what?

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – A Swedish man was dug out alive after being snowed in to his car on a forest track for two months with no food, police and local media reported on Saturday.

With no food?! For two months?! In the cold?! We’re calling hoax. Impossible!

The 45-year-old from southern Sweden was found Friday, emaciated and too weak to utter more than a few words.

He was found not far from the city of Umea in the north of Sweden by snowmobilers who thought they had come across a car wreck until they dug their way to a window and saw movement inside.

The man, who was laying in the back seat in a sleeping bag, said he had been in the car since December 19.

Okay, maybe we shouldn’t call hoax. But there has to be more information to come. Like maybe he had a cooler full of meatballs with him when he got stuck. Or a dog…

We’ll keep you posted.

P.S. Whatever happened, we need to add that we hope the guy recovers fully and quickly.

Take it away, guys:

Update: They’ve rewritten the rules, apparently.