Weird, unusual events printed around world

 (KRT)—A suicidal man, wearing a target on his chest, brandished a pellet gun and goaded a half-dozen sheriff’s deputies in Knoxville, Tenn., into gunning him down. The deputies obliged, letting fly a barrage of 28 gunshots. They hit the man once, slightly wounding him.
—An 81-year-old woman in Thunder Bay, Ontario, drove her car over a steep embankment and into a shallow river below. She was taking a test for her driver’s license at the time.
—A man stole a credit card from a car in the parking lot of a restaurant in Knoxville, Tenn., and then went into the restaurant’s bar and ordered a Tanqueray martini, paying for it with the stolen card. It didn’t occur to him that it could belong to someone who worked there. He was arrested.
—When a tree branch fell and knocked an Australian farmer unconscious, his pet kangaroo, Lulu, stood over him and “barked like a dog,’’ alerting the man’s wife who was inside the house more than 200 yards away. The farmer survived his head injuries, and Lulu is being hailed as the hero of Morwell, Australia.
—Nina Rakhmanina has started a thriving business renting out “husbands’’ to single women in Russia who need men to come over for an hour and fix things and do general “men’s work.’’ Rakhmanina first advertised as “home repairs’’ and got no response. But business skyrocketed when she changed the name to “Husband for an Hour.’’