22-year-old Zhang Heng decided to celebrate his college graduation with a 20-day bicycle trip across China with six of his friends.

90 miles into their trip, in Yajiang, Zhang found a stray dog in the street. Zhang fed it, and the dog ran after them.

And he CONTINUED to follow them for the rest of their 20-day trip . . . which was more than 1,100 miles. (–Yajiang is in the center of the country, 1,400 miles southwest of Beijing.)

They eventually named the dog Xiao Sa. (–It’s pronounced she-ow sah.) It even climbed mountains that were over 13,000 feet tall as the group made their way to Tibet.

The only time Xiao Sa didn’t run was on one super-steep downhill slope. The bikes went as fast as 40 miles an hour, so Zhang mounted a cage on his bike so the dog wouldn’t have to run to keep up.

And Zhang adopted Xiao Sa after the trip was over.

(Oddity Central)

Around 4:00 A.M. on Monday, 21-year-old Sophie Anderson of Brooklyn, New York was driving her red Mercedes convertible on Long Island . . . and lost control.

She ended up hopping the curb, SMASHING through the front wall of a HOUSE, plowing through the dining room, plowing through the kitchen, smashing through the back wall, hitting a tree . . . and coming to rest in the backyard.

Her Mercedes was wrecked, but she managed to get out with just some scratches and bruises on her face. The TOP WAS DOWN on the convertible . . . which makes it even more amazing she had such minor injuries.

The house belonged to a 96-YEAR-OLD woman who was asleep at the time . . . about 20 feet away from where there was now a giant hole through her house.

Sophie was arrested for driving while intoxicated.

(New York Post)

(–Here’s her mugshot, plus a photo of the huge hole in the house and the car in the backyard.)

People generally think pretty highly of brain surgeons and their intelligence.  Like, if you want to say something’s easy, you say “It doesn’t take a brain surgeon” to do it.  But this guy might singlehandedly ruin that reputation.

Dr. Steve Carr is a brain surgeon in Denver, Colorado.  Last month, he and his girlfriend Mary were on vacation in Naples, Florida . . . and he wanted to propose to her.

So he decided to BURY the engagement ring in the sand, take Mary to the beach, dig up the ring, and propose.  But when they got to the beach . . . he couldn’t remember where he’d buried the ring. 

We’re not sure if he didn’t mark the spot or what, but when he couldn’t find the ring, he started digging.  So he told Mary what happened, and SHE started digging.  Then OTHER people on the beach started digging.  But no one could find the ring.

After two hours, they went online to find a local ‘ring finder’.  Yes, there’s actually a nationwide ‘Ring Finder’ network that handles this kind of thing. 

A guy named Larry Spearing showed up with a metal detector, and was able to find the ring.  There’s no word on what he charged.  Steve proposed to Mary, and for some reason she still said yes.

(ABC 7 – Fort Myers)

Eight-year-old Greg Albin of Lino Lakes, Minnesota got a very cool wish granted by the Make-a-Wish foundation. (–Lino Lakes is 20 miles north of Minneapolis.)

Greg was diagnosed with leukemia two years ago. And when he was offered the chance to have a wish granted, he said he wanted to play video games with Joe Mauer, the All-Star catcher for the Minnesota Twins.

Joe could have played him over the Internet, or even gotten together in front of the TV. But he decided to go above and beyond.

First he sent a limo to bring Greg’s family to a Twins game on Friday. Then he gave them a tour of the stadium, signed autographs, and introduced them to his teammates.

Finally, he played Greg in a baseball video game . . . on the stadium’s 5,800-square-foot VIDEO SCOREBOARD.

(–To put that screen’s size in perspective . . . it’s the equivalent of a 1,392-inch TV, and it would take 1,042 42-inch TVs to fill the same space. It’s the 4th largest screen out of the MLB stadiums.)

(MLB.com)