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• Tessica Brown of New Orleans was out of hairspray in January as she got ready to go out, so she reached for the only spray she could find, Gorilla Glue, to shellack her hair into place.
"I figured ... I could just wash it out," she told WDSU-TV, but "it didn't."
Brown and her mother tried olive oil and vegetable oil, to no avail, and the local hospital could offer little help.
She cut off her ponytail to reduce the weight, but the spray on her scalp continued to painfully tighten and harden.
On Feb. 10, she posted on Instagram, she was scheduled to fly to Los Angeles to meet with plastic surgeon Michael Obeng to undergo a procedure that costs more than $12,000 -- for free. [WDSU-TV, 2/10/2021]
• Neighbors in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, called police on Feb. 8 after witnessing an unidentified man apparently take a joyride on an excavator parked in the street, knocking it into power lines and making a getaway on a bicycle.
WPLG-TV reported the incident resulted in every sports fan's worst nightmare: a power outage just before the big game.
"About 30 to 40 minutes before the Super Bowl started, (the power) just went all the way out," said Bubba James.
Crews from Florida Power & Light attended to the problem, and the power was back on by halftime. [WPLG Local10 News, 2/8/2021]