A 72-year-old woman threw snowballs at a burning taxi and successfully put out the fire in Shenyang, Liaoning province.

The cab suddenly went up in flames as it drove through a downtown locality.

While several pedestrians rushed to help the driver, the old woman chose to pick up snow from the streets and hurl it at the vehicle.

She managed to put out the fire within minutes.

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A man in Xining, capital of Qinghai province, had to be hospitalized after he played games on the computer for four days straight without getting any sleep.

Doctors said the businessman, surnamed Xu, suffered from temporary blindness.

Xu spent the four nights in a cyber caf after a quarrel with his wife and continued playing games till he complained he had lost his vision.

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Court papers allege that a woman in the U.S. state of Washington tampered with her husband's power tools so that he received a powerful electric shock.  Carolyn Paulsen-Riat was booked Friday into the Thurston County Jail for investigation of third-degree assault, domestic violence, and second-degree malicious mischief. 

The local newspaper reports that court documents said that the man was using a 220-volt table saw when he received the shock, knocking him to the ground.  Thurston County sheriff's deputies said the man did not need to go to a hospital.

In the documents, deputies said the woman told them she had reversed the wires on his power tools because she was angry he was leaving her.

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A Florida man who stole a delivery driver's keys to get back at him over a grudge has been arrested on felony burglary charges. Matthew Everett Gray allegedly admitted swiping the keys of a Pepsi-Cola service truck because he wanted the driver to get in trouble at work. The keys unlocked some 20 vending machines.

The victim identified Gray from surveillance photos captured last week in the Wal-Mart parking lot, where the truck was unattended for an hour.

Police said Gray told them he wasn't planning to use the keys to steal anything from the vending machines.

He was arrested on charges of felony burglary and theft.