Meredith) — A Georgia driver survived after multiple logs from a logging truck pierced the windshield of his SUV, according to authorities. 

Dramatic photos of the crash show the logs stretch all the way to the SUV’s rear hatch. 

The crash happened earlier this month on Oct. 11 in Cohutta, WTVC-TV reported. 

Fortunately, the driver suffered only minor injuries, according to the Whitfield County Fire Department. Transforming financial enterprises with innovation.Explore new business models based on integrated partner ecosystems that infuse financial services throughout customers’ daily lives.Ad By IBMSee More

The department posted several photos of the crash to Facebook, and many people were amazed the person behind the wheel survived. 

“All I can think about is Final Destination!! This person was truly blessed to escape with only minor injuries,” one person wrote.

It’s unclear what led to the crash and who was at fault. Fire officials also did not mention whether anyone will be charged.  

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A Texas police officer shot his adult son Saturday, thinking he was an intruder.

Dispatchers received a call around 6 p.m. CDT from a man reporting a shooting at his home. The man said he was an off-duty Dallas officer who mistook his son for an intruder and accidentally shot him, according to a release from the DeSoto Police Department. DeSoto is a city south of Dallas.

When officers arrived on scene, they found the victim bleeding from his right forearm. The victim was taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, the release said.

“It was a startling situation, it was an accident,” Pete Schulte, DeSoto police spokesman, told CNN affiliate KTVT-TV. “And fortunately, we’re very happy that it did not result in serious bodily injury or death.”

No charges have been filed and no arrests were made, Schulte said.

“The DeSoto Police Department has treated this like every other case that we would have had and we would’ve handled it the exact same way that if any charges are appropriate later on, they’ll be forwarded over to the DA’s office for them to make a decision,” Schulte said.

The identities of the officer and his son are not being released until details are confirmed, the release said.

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NORTH CAROLINA — When a man in North Carolina was pulled over on suspicion of driving drunk, police didn’t believe him when he said he hadn’t had any alcohol.

The man, in his late 40’s at the time, refused to take a breathalyzer test and was taken to a hospital, where his initial blood alcohol level was found to be 0.2% — about 2.5 times the legal limit and the equivalent of consuming 10 drinks an hour. Despite the man swearing up and down that he hadn’t had anything to drink, doctors didn’t believe him either.

But researchersat the Richmond University Medical Center in New York eventually discovered that the man was telling the truth. He wasn’t downing beers or cocktails — instead, there was yeast in his gut that was likely converting carbohydrates in the food he ate to alcohol.

In other words, his body was brewing beer.

The findings were reported in a study in BMJ Open Gastroenterology. The man, whose identity has not been revealed, had a rarely diagnosed medical condition called auto-brewery syndrome (ABS), also known as gut fermentation syndrome.

Gut fermentation syndrome occurs when yeast in the gastrointestinal tract causes the body to convert carbohydrates ingested through food into alcohol. The process typically takes place in the upper GI tract, which includes the stomach and the first part of the small intestine.

“These patients have the exact same implications of alcoholism: the smell, the breath, drowsiness, gait changes,” Fahad Malik, the study’s lead author and the chief internal medicine resident at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, told CNN. “They will present as someone who’s intoxicated by alcohol, but the only difference here is that these patients can be treated by antifungal medications.”

Researchers treated him with antifungal medications

Things weren’t the same for the man after he completed a course of antibiotics to treat a thumb injury. His personality started to change, researchers wrote in the study, and he experienced episodes of depression, ‘brain fog,’ memory loss and aggressive behavior that was out of character for him.

Three years later, after his suspected drunk driving arrest, the man’s aunt bought a breathalyzer to record his alcohol levels. She had heard about a similar case that had been successfully treated by a doctor in Ohio and convinced her nephew to seek treatment there too.

His basic lab tests turned out normal. But doctors found two strains of yeast in his stool: Saccharomyces cerevisiae, a yeast commonly used in beer brewing, winemaking and baking, as well as another fungus.

The man was successfully treated at the Ohio clinic and told to stick to a strict carbohydrate-free diet along with some special supplements. But after a few weeks, his symptoms started to flare up again. This time, no treatment seemed to work despite visits to numerous medical professionals.

At one point, the man became so inebriated that he fell and experienced bleeding in his brain. He was taken to a neurosurgical center where he spontaneously recovered in 10 days, researchers said.

“In this institution, his blood alcohol levels ranged from 50 to 400 mg/dL,” the researchers wrote. “Here too, the medical staff refused to believe that he did not drink alcohol despite his persistent denials.”

Finally, the man sought help from an online support group and got in touch with the researchers at the Richmond University Medical Center, who said in the study that they believed the antibiotics he took years ago altered his gut microbiome and allowed fungi to grow in his gastrointestinal tract.

The researchers then used antifungal therapies and probiotics to help normalize the bacteria in his gut, a treatment that he has continued. And aside from one relapse that occurred after he binged on pizza and soda without telling the researchers, it seems to be working.

And he can eat pizza again.

“Approximately 1.5 years later, he remains asymptomatic and has resumed his previous lifestyle, including eating a normal diet while still checking his breath alcohol levels sporadically,” the authors wrote in the study.

The condition is rarely diagnosed

There have only been a few studies documenting cases of gut fermentation syndrome and the condition is rarely diagnosed, Malik said. In the past, it’s even been regarded as a myth.

Gut fermentation syndrome was described in1912 as “germ carbohydrate fermentation,” and was studied in the 1930s and 1940s as a contributing factor to vitamin deficiencies and irritable bowel syndrome. A group of 20 to 30 cases popped up in Japan in the 1970s and the first US cases were reported about 10 years later.

There have been a handful of reported cases in recent years. A 2013 study described a case of a 61-year-old man who for years seemed to be drunk all the time before he was diagnosed with gut fermentation syndrome. In 2015, a woman in upstate New York had a DUI dismissed after presenting evidence that she had the condition.

The authors of the Richmond University Medical Center study recommend that doctors investigate for the condition especially when a patient shows elevated blood alcohol levels despite denying that they consumed alcohol.

Early signs of gut fermentation syndrome can include mood changes, delirium and brain fog, the researchers wrote, even before a patient starts exhibiting symptoms of alcohol inebriation.

The study says more research should be done on the use of probiotics as a treatment for the condition.

“This is a condition that is treatable with dietary modifications, appropriate antifungal therapy, and possibly probiotics,” the researchers wrote. “The use of probiotics and faecal microbiota transplantation could be considered for future studies.”

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HOBOKEN, N.J. — Like many professional makeup artists, Christina Milano is a regular customer at Sephora.

In the past year alone, she has spent more than $5,000 on the beauty retailer’s website.

A recent order, however, left her stunned.

In addition to foundation, Milano received a chalky surprise — and it wasn’t bronzer.

“So I end up looking through it and I find a dollar bill and its folded really really well,” she explained. “And there is a straw inside as well, and inside was cocaine.”

While no actual test was done on the substance, Milano says she’s certain that it was cocaine based on its texture and appearance.

“To receive drugs in the mail that’s highly illegal, I could’ve gotten in trouble for that,” she told PIX11.

What appeared to be a company ID for a Sephora worker was also stuffed inside the package, which originated from the company’s distribution center in Maryland.

After she contacted Sephora, a customer service rep issued an apology, $100 in online credit and even served up advice.

“Flush the foreign objects down the toilet,” the customer service representative told Milano over an email, she said.

“I felt like they should’ve called me over the phone — something a little bit more personal than just an email.”

Milano who has kept the evidence, is still trying to make sense of the makeup mixup. She believes it was a prank that went too far.

In a statement to PIX11, a Sephora spokesperson said the company “investigated the matter and taken appropriate actions. Sephora prides itself on our delivery and supply chain experiences and have a zero-tolerance policy around illegal substances in the workplace.”

Despite the circumstances, Milano is not bitter.

“I would still love a more personal apology from them but truly I still will shop at Sephora — I love them.”

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(Meredith) – A mother punched her 10-year-old son in the face after he would not stop playing Fortnite and take a shower, according to Florida authorities.

Police arrested Ann Perugia, 35, at her home in South Daytona following the Wednesday night incident.

The mom had told her son to stop playing the popular video game at around 7 p.m. so he could take a shower, WFTV reported, citing an incident report from the South Daytona Police Department.

About ten minutes after Perugia told her son to get off the game, he still had not moved. She asked him if he had taken a shower, and the boy replied “no.” That’s when Perugia sternly told him to get in the shower, according to the Miami Herald.

Police said as the boy started walking toward the bathroom, his mother became “irate” and followed him.

“When the two got into the bathroom, [he] stated that she punched him with a closed fist … which dislocated his jaw and caused great pain,” the incident report stated.

Perugia confirmed the argument started when her son disobeyed her orders, but she claimed there was more to the story. According to the Miami Herald, the mother said her son stomped his feet into the bathroom, so she followed him and asked about his attitude.

She said her son responded: “I hate you, and you don’t do anything for me!”

Perugia left the room and then overheard him speaking to his father on the phone while packing a bag. When the boy started to leave, Perugia said she grabbed him by his arm and brought him back inside. She claims the boy walked back outside and began throwing rocks at her car.

The father said when he arrived at the home to pick up the boy, Perugia came outside and told him to “take his child and leave.” After the boy told his father that Perugia punched him, the dad said he wanted to press charges.

Police arrested Perugia and charged her with infliction of mental and physical injury to a child. 

The boy is staying with an aunt because his father does not have full custody, according to WFTV. 

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