THE soaring cost of health care in the USA has driven at least one family to extreme measures.
Border agents in Canada were shocked to discover a dead body in the vehicle of a group returning from a Florida vacation, according to the Toronto Sun.
The family of three - parents in their 80s and their 60-year-old son - were on holiday when the father started feeling chest pains.
Unfortunately he died of a suspected heart attack, but concerned about the cost of a hospital admission and subsequent repatriation of the body to their home in Quebec, the family decided it would be easier to just drive him home.
A report of the "Weekend at Bernie's" incident flippantly said "the words 'what do you have to declare' took on a bizarre meaning" at the border crossing, adding that "for a Quebec family, the answer was simply grandpa".
And in another "only in America" story, two men have been arrested in Arkansas after taking turns to shoot each other while wearing a bulletproof vest.
The neighbours initially told hospital staff they had been shot while "protecting an asset," later confessing they had been drinking together and decided to test out the protective clothing.
The local Democrat-Gazette cited a police report saying one was taken to hospital after his wife noticed a mark on his chest.
Ultimately it turned out he had been shot by his drinking buddy with a semi-automatic rifle, before they swapped and he fired five bullets into his pal's back.
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