A 77-year-old man, Robert Schoff, was trying to find a clog of his septic tank when he lost his balance and stuck upside down, with his head inside and his feet kicking in the air above. It was an hour before his wife, Toni, walked by a window and saw his feet in the air and called 911.

“It wasn’t good, I’ll tell you what,” Schoff said Tuesday. “It was the worst Christmas Eve I’ve ever had.”

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While sharing Christmas cracker with her family, Betty Lawrence found a dead and decaying mouse in it – far from the standard bad jokes, paper hats and proverbs that comes with it.

“I had said to my granddaughter, ‘What’s that smell?’ and we couldn’t work it out until we pulled the cracker,” Lawrence said.

“My niece started pulling it out, thinking it was a soft toy,” she said, adding the discovery wrecked the festivities. “It ruined my appetite for the rest of the day.”

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These previously-stray dogs, Buckshot, Katie and Obu-Jet, are extremely lucky to have found an owner like Ken Kemper who leaves to them and $800,000 estate.

The dogs — named Buckshot, Katie and Obu-Jet — inherited $400,000 and a house in Hagerstown with the death last year of owner Ken Kemper. Altogether, their estate is worth about $800,000.

The beagle and two Labrador mixes were strays when Kemper adopted them. They now live at their house with caretaker Roy Grady.

They might not be aware of their wealth, but they do know that on one night a week Grady treats them to spaghetti dinner, with meatballs and garlic bread.

“They love it,” he said. “They know when it’s coming on Friday, too. They have that time clock.”

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A rare “Jenny” stamp, one of the most famously flawed stamps in U.S. history was sold for $825,000 to man from New York. This rare 1918 24-cent stamp depicts an upside-down Curtis JN-4 biplane known as “Jenny”, a World War I training aircraft. Link