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CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA — A baboon along the M4 highway near Cape Town entered a stopped car and made off with several slices of pizza as the occupants of the vehicle screamed in terror.

The incident occurred in an area where tourists stop their vehicles to photograph the local baboons and other Old World monkeys. Prominent signs warn tourists to keep their doors locked, because the primates have learned to open them.

One baboon found an unlocked door, yanked it open, jumped into the vehicle, and ran out moments later carrying the pizza. Other tourists reported screams coming from inside the car.

Wildlife officers soon arrived to chase the animals away from the area.

FORT LAUDERDALE, FLORIDA — Florida first responders were summoned last month to rescue a naked man from the top of an open drawbridge.

Bystanders said the man tried to cross the bridge after skinny-dipping in the canal, but he got stranded when the bridge was raised.

Initially, firefighters tried to reach the man with ladders, but the ladders weren’t long enough. Sheriff’s deputies then scaled the drawbridge and — after wrapping the man in a towel — secured him in a harness so the bridge could be lowered.

Local news outlets noted that the drawbridge spends 95 percent of its time in the up position and is flanked by no trespassing signs.

CHANGSHA, CHINA — A Chinese man whose 17 girlfriends discovered each other while visiting him in the hospital last month has been arrested on fraud charges.

The man, identified as Yuan, was injured in a traffic accident in April. When hospital staff contacted people from his address book (believed to be family members), 17 women ages 20-40, all claiming to be his girlfriend, showed up to his bedside.

The 17 girlfriends set up an online chat forum called Revenge Alliance to share details of their relationships with him. Yuan reportedly had a child with one of the women and had planned to wed another. A few claimed he asked them for large sums of money each month.

Yuan was put under criminal detention stemming from charges of fraud, the South China Morning Post reports. He faces additional fraud charges for allegedly bilking his ex-wife out of $40,000.