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    • A fire toppled a railroad bridge like it was made of dominoes outside of the small town of San Saba, Texas. Firefighters for the Lometa, Texas, volunteer fire department, arrived on scene but decided they could only contain the fire and watch as trestle after trestle folded, leaving the the train rails suspended in air momentarily like Wile E. Coyote.

      Jamie Smart, who shot the video, spends his days as principal of the local high school but volunteers his time at the Lometa Volunteer Fire Department, a small group that uses donations to keep up vehicles and hoses when the county budget falls short. Responding to a call from a local resident, the air was too hazy to see much when he got there, but from up close Smart knew the the 900-foot trestle bridge, built in 1910 as a spur of the Sante Fe Railroad, was in flames. "It was quite an engineering marvel, that it stood up that long," Smart said.

      Firefighters only had the water they brought in with them in trucks -- enough to fight a

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    • Action Comics No. 1, featuring Superman (Wikipedia/Joe Shuster)Action Comics No. 1, featuring Superman (Wikipedia/Joe Shuster)

      While remodeling his newly purchased home in Elbow Lake, Minn., David Gonzalez noticed something unusual amid the old newspapers that had been used as wall insulation.

      It was a copy of Action Comics No. 1 from 1938, the very first comic to feature the granddaddy of all superheroes, Superman.

      StarTribune.com spoke with Gonzalez about his amazing find as well as a subsequent family accident that knocked down the value of his windfall.

      "I knew it was worth money," Gonzales told the Star Tribune. "But I had no idea how much."

      So far, the answer is, well, a lot. With roughly three weeks left on the auction block, the high bid is around $113,000.

      Not bad, considering Gonzalez bought the house for $10,100. But, still, the comic could be worth a lot more were it not for an argument among family members.

      From StarTribune.com:

      When his wife’s aunt grabbed the comic book amid all the excitement of the discovery, he grabbed it back and tore the back cover. Experts downgraded the comic book’s

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    • Truck driver with great timing saves man’s life

      By Mike Krumboltz | The Sideshow – Wed, May 22, 2013

      Right place, right time, right truck.

      A truck driver with incredible timing and quick thinking helped save the life of a man whose pickup had flipped into a roadside pond, WCCO.com reports.

      Scott Rosenberg stopped his semitrailer when he saw the smashed pickup in the pond on the morning of May 9 near Stillwater, Minn. The truck Rosenberg was driving happened to have a boom used to unload heavy cargo such as concrete pipes.

      Rosenberg quickly surmised that anyone in the pickup needed immediate help. "The horn was honking, the lights were still on. There was a little bit of steam coming off it," said Rosenberg, describing the scene of the accident to WCCO.com.

      Rosenberg told WCCO.com that his truck's boom is capable of moving 10,000 pounds, more than enough power to right an upside-down pickup. With the help of other good Samaritans, Rosenberg got the smashed pickup upright.

      Rosenberg saw the driver, Nate Anderson, wasn't moving at first. "My heart just sank," Rosenberg told WCCO.com.

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