Things that make you go ... HMMMMM!

A "Black Widow" suicide bomber planned a terrorist attack in central Moscow on New Year's Eve but was killed when an unexpected text message set off her bomb too early, according to Russian security sources. The unnamed woman, who is thought to be part of the same group that struck Moscow's Domodedovo airport on Monday, intended to detonate a suicide belt near Red Square on New Year's Eve in an attack that could have killed hundreds. Security sources believe a message from her mobile phone operator wishing her a happy new year received just hours before the planned attack triggered her suicide belt, killing her at a safe house.

Climber survives a 1,00 foot mountain slide

Some of the headlines make it sound like Adam Potter plunged 1,000 feet and managed to come away with minor injuries. That's not exactly the way things (dare we say it?) went down Saturday on Scotland's Sgurr Choinnich Mor (that's a mountain). But he's still got a story that sounds more like it would have happened to Harry Potter than to a landfill manager from Glasgow. As Scotland's Daily Record writes, the 36-year-old Potter was near the summit of the 3,589-foot mountain when he lost his footing. "I slipped and then I kept falling," Potter told the Record. "I tried to slow myself down on the ice and snow. I was jabbing my feet, my hands or anything to try to slow myself down, but each time I lost speed I would go over a bit of cliff. "I would get all that speed back up again. That went on for 1000 feet." Eventually, he came to a stop. By the time rescuers got to Potter, he was standing up, looking at a map, and trying to figure out where he'd landed. Potter has some broken bones in his back and some scrapes on his face. But overall, he's in pretty good shape. And Potter still plans to have a go at Mount Everest in March.

Norwegian Boy Fends Off Wolves with Mobile Phone Music

A 13-year-old Norwegian boy avoided what could have potentially been a tragic experience recently by fending off a pack of wolves with music playing on his phone. Walter Eikrem of Rakkedstad, Norway was walking home from school when he came across the pack. Instead of fleeing the scene, Walter chose another method to scare off the potentially ferocious animals by turning to the one defense mechanism he had on hand -- his cell phone.As he strolled home, he had been listening to Creed’s “Overcome.”

Thinking fast, he turned up the volume in an attempt to scare them away. Luckily, it worked, and the wolves scampered off – leaving the boy unscathed. “They didn’t really get scared,” Walter said after the experience. “They just turned around and simply trotted away.” It will never be known if the music is what truly turned the wolves away. Perhaps it was just a coincidence, and the wolves had no interest in attacking the young boy, or it’s possible that Creed’s music is that bad that it even frightens wild animals.

Mother Nature Bites Burglars

Even if they're convicted of burglarizing a Roosevelt business and running from police, it's unlikely two Colorado men will face a penalty more severe than the one meted out over the weekend by Mother Nature. That's because the pair suffered frostbite injuries so severe doctors may have to amputate some of their fingers and toes, according to Uintah County Sheriff's Chief Deputy John Laursen. The incident began Saturday about 3:20 a.m. when Bureau of Indian Affairs police officers asked sheriff's deputies for help with a vehicle pursuit. Deputies and Utah Highway Patrol troopers responded to the request, and authorities located the empty vehicle at an oil field location south of Ouray.

Officers found the four individuals hiding outside in an area where there was 18 inches of snow on the ground and the temperature was at least minus-20 degrees Fahrenheit, Laursen said. "All four suspects were suffering from various frostbite injuries," he said. Steven Leslie Wright, Nicole Lynn Beyer, Nicholas Pacheco and Christian Rowls, all from Grand Junction, Colo., were transported to Uintah Basin Medical Center in Roosevelt."It is believed that two of the people who ran suffered extreme frostbite and may lose fingers and toes," Laursen said."I've never seen frostbite like that before," Rowley said. "I went in last night and their fingers are starting to split open."