One day, high up the slopes at the site of a fire which had been fought using helicopters, a body was discovered. It was that of a scuba diver. He had been swimming around when suddenly he was air-borne, torn out of his element and subsequently dropped to his death. That's the way I heard it, and that's how I've been repeating it all these years, but now it seems that this story in one form or another has been cited as 'true' in so many parts of the world that it can only be false. I really liked it.
Car theft has a couple of good stories connected with it.
A man comes out of the house to go to work in the morning and finds his car gone, stolen. The next day, however, his car is back in place with a note inside, apologizing for the emergency which made it necessary to temporarily borrow the man's car. To make amends, the unknown 'thief' has left opera tickets for a performance at San Carlo theatre. Tickets for the whole family. Man takes family to opera.