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A family’s pet fish is being blamed for a deadly fire that nearly killed the family. Investigators believe Kipper, an eight inch catfish, nearly cost a woman and her two daughters their lives.

According to The Sun, the reigning notion is that Kipper was probably fighting with a rival in their tank. Thereby allowing water to splash out of the aquarium, landing on an electric plug below.Which is believed to have sent a power surge up the tank’s light cable, which burnt the plastic lid, which melted and dripped onto a leather sofa that burst into flames.

The ensuing blaze burned as Sharron Killahena, 25, and kids Nicole, six, and Kerry, two, slept upstairs. Luckily a smoke alarm woke landlord Simon Justice, 25, who was sleeping in a different room, who woke the family just in time to escape.

The family lost their home and six beloved fish however Killahena says, “At least we are here to tell the tale.”

A mysterious 18-inch ice chunk fell from the sky and crushed the upper portion of a car belonging to a man from Florida. The roof of the Ford Mustang, owned by Andre Ravage, 20, was crushed down to its seats on Sunday.

Ravage’s neighbor Raymond Rodriguez was changing a tire when the strange chunk fell from the sky. “I was scared,” AP quotes Rodriguez as saying who was only a foot away. “It’s crazy, man.”

The Federal Aviation Administration is speculating if the chunk fell off from some plane’s lavatory. However, the ice did not have a blue tint meaning it was not from a plane.

According to the National Weather Service, the conditions in Tampa are not suited for the formation of large balls of ice, known as megacryometeors. However, no one was hurt in the incident.

A Casper man, unfamiliar with the workings of a new pistol he recently purchased ended up firing the weapon accidentally with the bullet striking yet another man using the bathroom in the next building.

The bullet hit the man in the chest leaving a small bruise that did not require treatment. The bullet’s speed was slowed after traveling through two walls, across a courtyard and rebounding off a shower wall.

AP quotes police Sgt. Mark Trimble as saying, “It’s one of those freak happenings.” The incident occurred about noon Sunday.

However, the owner of the gun Erick Hovermale of Casper was left with only with a small scratch on his arm. He was given a misdemeanor charge for discharging a firearm in city limits.

One student is offering $130 to a woman willing to pose as his girlfriend to impress his parents during the holidays.

Zhu Lijie, a Peking University student in China, posted an advertisement on a bulletin board asking that a woman pretend to be his partner for 10 days during the Lunar New Year holiday.

The man told local media that he has been telling his parents he was studying too hard to earn a degree in physics to meet a woman. But this year he wants to impress them.

The bulletin asked that the women be kind, honest and have a degree. He is offering 1000 Yuan or $130. The holiday starts on February 18.

Although the advertisement seems innocent, Peking University police have issued a warning to women to avoid these requests.

After 300 years, the Witch of Pungo is no longer a witch.

Virginia Governor Timothy M. Kaine gave an informal pardon on Monday to Grace Sherwood, who became Virginia’s only person convicted as a witch tried by water.

Kaine said in a letter, “I am pleased to officially restore the good name of Grace Sherwood. With 300 years of hindsight, we all certainly can agree that trial by water is an injustice. We also can celebrate the fact that a woman’s equality is constitutionally protected today, and women have the freedom to pursue their hopes and dreams.”

Sherwood, a midwife who at times wore men’s clothing, lived in what today is the rural Pungo neighborhood.

Her neighbors thought she was a witch who ruined crops, killed livestock and conjured storms, and she went to court a dozen times, either to fight witchcraft charges or to sue her accusers for slander.

On July 10, 1706, she was dropped into the Lynnhaven River and floated, which was considered proof that she was guilty.

According to the belief system of the time, she would have sunk if she were innocent.

She was in jail until about 1714 before being let out. She then lived a quiet life until her death at 80.

Monday’s ceremony also included a reenactment of Sherwood’s dunking into the river.