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May PIECES
World
| World unusual surprise in the bathroom
A Florida man received an
EXAMINER when a ball python slithered out

of his toilet and bit him on the
News
hand.
The Coral Springs Police
IRISH News Department said firefighters and
the Coral Springs Humane Unit
responded to the apartment
building Sunday after the man
foundthesnakeinhistoiletabout
4 a.m.
Loose bison evades capture The Samsung NC10 laptop, dubbed Resident baffled when intruder The man, who said he did not
in Minnesota “The Persistence of Chaos,” was loaded cleans home, takes nothing know if the snake was attempting
Police in Minnesota said they have by artist Guo O Dong with infamous ran- A Massachusetts man said he arrived to use the toilet to enter or exit
been unable to capture an escaped bison somware viruses including WannaCry, at his family’s home to find someone his apartment, received a bite to
that has been on the loose for four days. BlackEnergy, ILOVEYOU, MyDoom, had broken in and given the residence a the hand from the non-ven-
The Olmsted County Sheriff”s Office SoBig and DarkTequila. deep cleaning without stealing anything. omous snake, but was not seri-
said a farmer tending to his cattle Sunday The ransomware programs, which Nate Roman, 44, said he returned to ously injured.
was the first to report the bison on the lock up the machine and demand the user his Marlborough home last week with The ball python was taken to
loose in southwest Rochester, and pay a fee to have it unlocked, have been his 5-year-old son and the boy was the a reptile center.
Police said they do not yet
deputies attempted to round up the ani- blamed for an estimated $95 billion in first to notice the back door was open. know where the snake came
mal but had to back off when it became damages worldwide and once shut down “It was terrifying to know someone from. C
aggressive. a Ukrainian power grid. was in your house,” Roman told WCVB-
Sheriff’s Capt. Scott Behrns said the Dong said the purpose of the piece, TV. Police in New York said thou-
department was able to identify the which was commissioned by cyber secu- The homeowner said he was shocked sands of bees were relocated
owner, who is working with the sheriff’s rity firm Deep Instinct, was to give phys- to go inside and discover nothing had from just outside an Urban
office and the Minnesota Department of ical form to abstract cyber security issues. been taken, but instead the house had Outfitters store in Manhattan on
Natural Resources to come up with a The laptop, which was auctioned for been cleaned. the same day that a massive
plan for the animal’s capture. $1.345 million, is currently isolated from “You could smell the cleaning chemi- swarm appeared on the side of a
Behrns said the bison, estimated networks and is unable to spread the cals,” he told WBZ-TV. “I could tell Queens building.
bee keepers
The NYPD’s
between 1,500 and 1,800 pounds, is diffi- viruses. something was wrong so I started look- were called to the urban outfit-
cult to get close to safely. ing around the house, and I found that ters store about 4:30 p.m.
“They will charge if they feel threat- Stranded cat rescued from roof my bathrooms had been cleaned.” Monday to vacuum up about
ened because they will protect them- of boxing club Roman said every room had been 8,000 bees that swarmed around
selves,” he told Minnesota Public Radio Animal rescuers in Wales said a cat cleaned - except for the kitchen. a planter and posed a hazard to
News. was “on the ropes” after ending up Marlborough Police said they are tak- shoppers and pedestrians.
stranded on the roof of a boxing club for ing the investigation seriously, but they The department said the bees
Pennsylvania motorcyclist rescues at least four days. currently have no leads or suspects. were removed on the same day
injured bald eagle in the road The RSPCA said animal collection Roman said a clue left behind - toilet that a swarm of about 20,000
A Pennsylvania man is being praised officer Fiona Thomas responded to a paper folded into origami roses - lead bees was removed from the side
for his quick action in rescuing an injured Penarth Amateur Boxing Club, where a him to suspect a professional cleaning of a building in the Sunnyside
neighborhood in Queens.
bald eagle found blocking traffic on a cat was spotted stuck in the gutter of the service had visited the wrong address. “We’re in the midst of swarm
busy bypass. apex roof. “It was really the roses that really got season, so please [be] on the look-
Dandon Miller of Lancaster said he The group said members of the public me thinking that some professional out for swarms,” the department
was on the Route 30 bypass in reported spotting the cat on the roof cleaner had accidentally stumbled into tweeted. C
Downingtown, Chester County, when about four days before rescuers were my house,” Roman said. “If I was going
traffic in front of him came to a stop. contacted. to judge the quality of a toilet paper rose Researchers in China said a
Miller pulled over and discovered the Thomas enlisted the help of he South I would call this high quality.” wildlife camera in a nature
vehicles had stopped because of a bald Wales Fire & Rescue Service, which was reserve captured an image of the
eagle in the road. able to use ladders to reach the stranded Coyote chased away from first albino giant panda ever seen
The biker wrapped the eagle in his feline. home by guardian cat in the wild.
The Wolong National Nature
flannel shirt and kept it safe at the side of The cat was found to be A California homeowner’s security Reserve in Sichuan Province said
the road until Pennsylvania State Police microchipped and was returned to his camera captured the moment a neigh- the fully albino giant panda was
and personnel from the Tri-State Bird owner. borhood cat protected their home by caught on camera in April, but
Rescue arrived at the scene. “This was certainly a ‘rocky’ ride for driving off a prowling coyote. the photo was just released to the
The bird rescue said the female eagle is this poor cat - trapped on the roof by a The Aldadena homeowner shared public this week.
being treated for injuries to both of her boxing club for a number of days,” Ring camera footage showing the coy- Li Sheng, a researcher with
feet and one wing. Officials said she is eat- Thomas said. ote wandering up to the property and Beijing’s Peking University, said
ing on her own and they are optimistic “Thankfully, the cat didn’t take a dive being confronted by a cat, which the the panda was the first albino -
that she will recover and be released. - as he was a great height from the homeowner said does not belong to meaning its body completely
ground and clearly needed help,” she them. lacks pigment - ever spotted in
the wild. He said the animal
Laptop intentionally loaded with said. The cat tussled with the coyote and appears to be about one or two
malware sells for $1.345 million “The RSPCA will never throw the ended up in a chase with the wild animal years old.
A laptop computer was loaded with towel in when helping animals. around the driveway before the coyote There are only about 1,864
some of the world’s most infamous mal- Fortunately, this rescue was an undis- fled the area. giant pandas left in the wild, the
ware programs as an art project and puted success and the cat was returned The homeowner said they examined World Wide Fund for Nature
fetched a high bid of $1.345 million. to his home,” Thomas said. the cat and found no signs of injury. C said. C