OOPS! Things People Didn't Expect to see In the News

Okay it's 2010, and we're off to a flying start here in the Abilene news world... Last week I brought a story to you about a family who had given away a shotgun to the wrong person! As the story was told to me, the wife had an apartment full of people when a man came to the door and said her husband told him to take his (the husband's) shotgun. Caught off guard, the wife passed off the shotgun, only to find out from her husband he never even spoke with the other man. Very sneaky...

Anyway, I met the couple, they are very nice and all too willing to let others know they made a mistake. In this post, I'm not trying to mock them or bring any unwanted attention their way, but if you step back there is a moment that makes you say, "OOPS."

The couple felt bad, and they told me they hope nothing happens because of their mistake. Still to give a shotgun away to a man they barely knew...

The second, "OOPS" moment I came across this last week, was a woman who straddled her car across a drainage ditch while centering the car over the curb. It appeared she was trying to turn right out of a gas station, but cut things a little too close. Instead she had the car balanced over ditch. Looking at the car, at least two, if not three, of the wheels were off the ground. Yeah, there's no recovering from that....

OOPS!

As I was leaving the scene, (I would've stayed longer, but it was FREEZING cold) the tow truck service was studying the easiest and cleanest way to get the car off.

I mean I'm not perfect. Far from it, actually, and I'm guaranteed to have my "Oops moments," just watch me, I'm bound to say or do something. Off the camera, I was born a klutz and that has yet to change...So what will happen next in our town? You'd just have to standby and see. Just hope I don't cover your "Oops."