Amazing but true (except the last item's impossibility)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMoaJCd6qMk

* You gotta watch this segment of Good Morning America (above), which dishes out and "dissects" TV camera footage of the moment when the President of the Czech Republic surreptitiously slips into his pocket a pen that his hosts, the Chilean government, had let him use for some official signing ceremony with his counterpart.

It seems that the (obviously) sharp-eyed Mr Vaclav Klaus had noticed that the pen was encrusted with semi-precious Chilean stones and decided to keep it -- right in front of the cameras! Czechs are now so "malu" (Malay for embarrassed) they have started a Facebook campaign to get him 5,000 pens to keep.

Aiyoh, they didn't pay him enough salary or what?  

* The next amazing item comes from today's xinmsn News (15 April):

A man in Penang beat the odds to come back to life two-and-a-half hours after doctors at a hospital pronounced him dead, according to a report by Malaysian daily, The Star.

His family, upon hearing of his death began making funeral arrangements, and placed a canopy in front of his house. As they were about to report his death to the police, they were shocked when doctors called to inform them that he was still alive.

The man's son talked about how they rushed his father to the hospital on Thursday morning, after he had stopped breathing. Recounting the incident, he said doctors performed CPR on his father, but to no avail, and then pronounced him dead at 1.00 pm. They were headed to the police station at 1.30 pm when they received a call.

The family rushed back to the hospital to see him being transported back to the cardiac care unit, and hooked up to a respirator.

This occurrence, which has become a hot topic in the area, is known as the Lazarus syndrome. It is a rare one, with only 39 cases recorded worldwide as of 2009. It gets its name from the biblical story of Lazarus being raised from the dead by Jesus.

* The last item, below -- from today's Straits Times -- is a quote that is an impossibility and amazing only because it was allowed in print:

[Two Bangladeshi men were found trapped inside a container shipped to Singapore. They were trapped for 10 days without food or water. One had died by the time workers here heard the sound of knocking by the survivor. The quote here is from Mr AKM Mohsin, a Bangladeshi newspaper editor...]

"Said Mr Mohsin: 'They could breathe, but the air was dank and stale. After several days, his (the survivor's) friend gasped his last breath and said, 'I'm gone'."

Er, shouldn't it be "... said 'I'm gone' and gasped his last breath."?