FLINT, Mich. (AP) – Fred Murray was just trying to pick up a cheap video camera at a local Goodwill. He ended up saving some irreplaceable memories.

Inside the $8 camera was an 40-minute tape that showed the first moments in the life of a baby girl, being weighed and measured and held by a grandfather. It also showed a family reunion.

Murray tracked down the tape’s owner, Sherry Ewing of Grand Blanc, and returned it to her Friday.

“The only people who would have seen that tape would be family. So I guess you’re family now,” Ewing, 46, told Murray. “Thank you so much.”

The tape recorded the 1991 birth of Lauren, now 14. It also held footage of Ewing’s mother, who died in 1998.

Murray, 59, and his wife, Rose, did a bit of detective work to track down Ewing.

A pillow in the video was embroidered with the name of the hospital. Nurses on the tape spoke of Friday the 13th and called out the baby’s hospital identification number and weight. A doctor’s name was legible on an identification badge. The hospital helped the couple find Ewing.

“We just knew we needed to get this back to the family,” said Rose Murray, 57.

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BERLIN (AP) – When a 58-year-old motorist stopped at a highway rest stop to answer the call of nature, he had no idea how cruel nature could be.

The man found himself trapped in a toilet stall Friday morning when the lock froze. The stop was along a highway near the Bavarian town of Lichtenau.

The man finally got help when someone occupied the stall next to him, heard his story and called police on his cell phone.

In all, the man spent about an hour in the chilly stall. Police described him as “thoroughly frozen through, but in good general health.”

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CHEMULT, Ore. (AP) – State troopers are used to having angry people throw strange things at them. But a pair of prosthetic legs?

Trooper Don Newcomb got hit with the appendages after stopping a vehicle for driving the wrong direction on Highway 97, police said. The trooper asked the driver to leave the SUV after allegedly smelling alcohol on his breath.

The driver initially refused to get out and a passenger, 53-year-old Joel Kackstetter, got out and told Newcomb that he would rip his head off, police said.

Once Newcomb finally got the driver to the patrol car, he chased Kackstetter, kicking him from behind. It was then than Kackstetter threw both of his legs at Newcomb, according to a police report. One missed him but the other hit the trooper in the chest.

Kackstetter was booked Saturday on suspicion of menacing, assaulting an officer, interference with an officer, criminal conspiracy and resisting arrest. His bail was set at $45,000. The driver was charged with driving under the influence, reckless driving, resisting arrest and attempted assault of an officer.

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SYDNEY, Australia (AP) – A prison inmate who shed 31 pounds so he could squeeze out of prison is back behind bars after being spotted in a mall wearing a drawn-on mustache and beard.

Robert Cole, 36, embarrassed authorities when he broke out of his hospital cell at Long Bay jail on Wednesday. He had chiseled a 6-inch hole in the brick work beside a window frame.

He reportedly managed to aid his escape by reducing his weight to 123 pounds by taking laxatives.

He was recaptured in a Sydney shopping mall on Saturday disguised with whiskers drawn on his face with a pen, The Sunday Telegraph newspaper reported.

“The man was wearing a fake painted beard and mustache,” said Noel O’Regan-Davis, 18, who watched the arrest. “It looked hilarious.”

Cole had been serving time for stealing and assault.