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For her score, she gets a ring
By Times Wires
Published Tuesday, April 15, 2008 10:39 PM
High score
His Video game prowess earns him an extra life
Bernie Peng of Jersey City, N.J., needed to find a unique way to propose to his beloved Tammy Li. He is a computer programmer. She loves the video game Bejeweled. So he hacked — er, reprogrammed — it so that a ring and a marriage proposal would pop up on the screen. "I thought it was pretty cool, in a nerdy way," Peng told the Star-Ledger of Newark. But she had to earn it: The proposal would only come up if she hit a certain score. Luckily, she's good, and did. The company that makes the game loves the story. "Most video game companies would frown on people manipulating their games, but it won him a woman" said Garth Chouteau, a spokesman for PopCap. "As a bunch of geeks we have to say, 'Bernie, hats off to you.' "
Whoops
License suspended, but not hers
Anne Medeiros of Toronto was very surprised when she got a letter from the Ministry of Transportation saying that her driver's license was being suspended due to "evidence of a medical condition that would affect your ability to safely operate a motor vehicle," the Toronto Sun reports. This surprised Medeiros, 40, mainly because she doesn't have a license to suspend. The letter included enough accurate information about Medeiros that she wants to know who's going around driving with her identity. "Obviously, they're trying to suspend someone's license," she said. "And it isn't mine, that's for sure."
Man falls on woman, saves her
Jens Wilhelms, 27, fell 25 feet down the elevator shaft of the apartment building in Frankfurt, Germany, where he lived. He probably would have been seriously hurt, too, if it had not been for the fact that he landed on a woman who had fallen down the shaft a day earlier. The woman, 57, was unconscious, and rescue workers say that although she sustained further injuries when Wilhelms landed on her, it probably also saved her life, because there is no telling how long it might have been before she was found.
No backup plan
Without proper ID, no cash for robber
Police in Honolulu are looking for a man who tried to rob a bank on Friday. He didn't actually get around to robbing the bank. For some reason, after handing the teller a note saying "This is a robbery," he handed her a filled-out withdrawal slip for a specific amount. Well, tellers can't fill withdrawal requests without proper ID, so the teller asked to see his, reports KITV-TV. The robber got flustered and left.
Correction
Not that much meat
Uruguay set a barbecue record with 12 tons of meat over the weekend. A different, much larger, number was given in an item Tuesday.
Compiled from Times wire services and other sources by staff writer Jim Webster, who can be reached at jwebster@sptimes.com.
Location of Frankfurt in dark blue. 
Police reported on Monday, that a man in Frankfurt, Germany is recovering after he fell 25 feet down an elevator shaft early Sunday morning at 6:30 a.m. CEST (UTC+2), and survived. According to authorities, the only reason why the man is alive is because he landed on top of a woman who had fallen down the same shaft just one day earlier.

27-year-old Jens Wilhelms, who was not injured in the fall, was walking up a dark stairwell, passing by the elevator shaft which was undergoing repairs. When he peeked inside the open doors to see what was going on, he slipped off the edge.

"I saw the door open and I just wanted to check whether somebody was finally working on the elevator. I took a closer look inside the shaft as it was pitch black, and must have slipped off the edge somehow," said Wilhelms to the media.

Approximately 24 hours prior to Wilhelms' fall, an unidentified 57-year-old woman fell down the same shaft and was laying unconscious on the shaft's floor, bleeding internally.

Authorities say that although the woman sustained additional injuries from Wilhelms' fall, he likely saved her life.

"When Wilhelms fell down on her his weight caused additional damage to her body, but without that she could have laid there for days. The woman had been lying unconscious in the shaft for some time already," said Manfred Vonhausen, a spokesman for the Frankfurt Police Department.

The woman remains in a hospital where she is in critical condition.