3 generations of Minnesota family share birthday

ST. PAUL, Minn. – Three generations of Coon Rapids women are now part of a very unique club. They all share the same birthday. Roxie Koep was born on June 1. She shares the birthday with her 29-year-old mother Rachel Koep and 56-year-old maternal grandmother Paula Ballanger. According to a St. Paul Pioneer Press calculation, the chance of a mother having the same birthday as one of her parents and her newborn is 1 in 133,225.

The chance of them all having the same gender is even more remote. Many variables can affect the odds, including that June is a busier month for births than others.

Ballanger said when Koep was younger she always tried to give her daughter her own special birthday, but now they nearly always celebrate together.

Woman goes to pick up mail, gets trapped 4 hours

WILLIS, Mich. – A woman making a stop to pick up her mail from a post office in Michigan ended up trapped inside for four hours because of a door malfunction. WJBK-TV reported the post office in Willis about 28 miles southwest of Detroit was closed Thursday evening when the woman stopped by, but the post office box area was open. After she went inside to get her mail, she couldn't get out.
Another woman saw her when she was mailing letters and called 911.
Postal Service spokeswoman Shannon LaBruyere said something in the mechanical mechanism on the door prevented it from opening. LaBruyere said the woman was understanding about the "unfortunate fluke."


Fla. man lends car to stranger, claims carjacking

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – Lending one's truck to a stranger to make a beer run is stupid. Compounding that by telling police you were carjacked is stupider. But Daytona Beach police said a 33-year-old man did both recently. He called police on May 27 to say possibly armed men ordered him out of the truck while stopped at a light at 4 a.m.
Police reviewed video taken by a camera at the intersection and found nothing. When investigators confronted the alleged victim, he confessed he had lent the truck to a man he'd met while drinking at a motel. He said the man said he wanted to get more beer but never returned.
He told police he lied about the carjacking because he was embarrassed.