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2019 BITS

5th, Wacky &
June Wacky PIECES

| World Police in Louisiana are
EXAMINER World reminding residents to keep

911 calls limited to emergen-
cies after someone called to
News
report Taco Bell was out of
taco shells.
IRISH News Department said someone
The
Slidell
Police
called 911 to report the Taco
Bell on Gause Boulevard in
Slidell “ran out of both hard
and soft taco shells.”
Man on bicycle blocks traffic on 2018, when she still had 13 nations left to an “Antique Walrus Tusk Warrior “While this is truly a trav-
Los Angeles highway visit. “The hardest part is proving it, Chessman” by the antiques dealer who esty, the police can’t do any-
A shocked driver on a Los Angeles proving that I’ve been to all these places. purchased it in 1964. thing about this,” police said.
highway captured video of a fellow trav- I have to get signed witness statements in The piece was passed on to the man’s “Hopefully, they are replen-
eler using a non-highway-approved vehi- each country I go to, [and provide] plane daughter, who stored it in a drawer until ished in time for Taco
cle: a bicycle. tickets, passport stamps, accommodation it was recently discovered by her family Tuesday!”
Jake Asner filmed as the cyclist, who receipts, log books for every country I and analyzed by experts, who identified it Police described the inci-
did not appear to be wearing a helmet, visit.” as a Lewis Chessman. dent as “another ‘we can’t
weaved through traffic on the 101 The auction house said the piece is make this stuff up’ story.”
Freeway near Highland Avenue. Officials say Ohio village’s expected to sell for up to $1.3 million dol- They did not say whether the
caller was cited. C
“All of a sudden, I think I see a motor- pink water is safe to drink lars when it goes up for auction July 2.
cycle doing wheelies on the freeway, but Officials in an Ohio village said pink Authorities in Texas
I looked to my left and it’s a guy on a water coming out of residents’ taps is safe Irish students break shared a photo snapped by a
bike!” Asner told CBS Los Angeles. “So I for drinking, but could be damaging to back-patting world record resident who looked outside
basically rolled down my window and clothes. More than 800 students at an Irish their front door and spotted a
said, ‘What are you doing man?’ And he Residents in Coal Grove reported the school gave each other pats on the back large alligator on the porch.
just gave me a weird look and kept water coming out of their taps Monday to break a Guinness World Record. The Fort Bend County
going.” morning was bright pink, leading village The Willow Park Parents’ Association Sheriff’s Office tweeted a
Asner said the situation nearly turned officials to initially warn locals not to said 824 students from Willow Park, photo showing the gator
disastrous as the slow-moving bicycle drink the odd-colored liquid. Blackrock College, and St. Andrew’s lurking right outside the
front door of a home in
created a hazard for larger vehicles. Officials later said the pink color came College formed a chain on the front lawn Cinco Ranch.
“A lot of the other drivers were swerv- from a malfunction at the water treat- of Blackrock College in the afternoon “We do have a leash law
ing trying to get into the other lanes ... ment center that saw a large quantity of Thursday and exchanged pats on the in Fort Bend so please don’t
and he almost got hit a couple of times so sodium permanganate end up in the back. let your pets roam unre-
it’s pretty dangerous,” Asner said. water. The association said they bested the strained! Deputies helped
The California Highway Patrol said Stephen Burchett, the water treatment record of 329 people patting each other this big boy find his way
calls came in from drivers about the plant operator for Coal Grove, said the on the back at England’s Leicester home after he wandered
cyclist’s dangerous stunt, but he was chemical is not dangerous if ingested, but Grammar Junior school in June 2018. onto a porch in Cinco
nowhere to be seen when troopers it could dye clothes washed in affected The attempt served as a fundraiser for Ranch,” the department
arrived. water. charity Dogs for the Disabled. tweeted.
The sheriff’s office said it
The village flushed the water at the Officials said they are submitting evi- was the second time in less
Lexie Alford visits all 196 treatment plant several times Monday dence from the attempt to Guinness than a week that deputies had
sovereign nations on the planet and officials said the water will return to World Records for official recognition. been called for an alligator
A 21-year-old American woman said its usual transparent appearance once all lurking outside a home. C
she unofficially broke a Guinness World of the pink water has been run out of the Texas family given fake cake
Record by becoming the youngest person pipes. by Walmart bakery A teenager who was only
to visit all 196 sovereign nations in the A Texas family said they were shocked on her second day as a
world. Chess piece bought for $6 in to cut into a cake they bought from licensed driver experienced
Lexie Alford visited the North Korean 1964 valued at up to $1.3 million Walmart and discover it was made of an unusual hazard behind the
side of the conference rooms in the “blue An ivory chess piece bought for $6 by polystyrene. wheel when a raccoon
hitched a ride on her wind-
house” in the Joint Security Area on the a Scottish antiques dealer in the 1960s Nellie Flores said she and her sister, shield.
DMZ between North and South Korea was found in a drawer and is now expect- Marsy, ordered the cake for a graduation Haylee Lowry, 16, was
on Friday, crossing off the last country on ed to sell for up to $1.3 million. party, but employees told them later the driving home from basketball
her list. Auction house Sotheby’s said the order had been lost. practice with her mother in
Alford said she was unable to find a piece, dubbed the Lewis Warder, is Flores said a Walmart manager told Tennessee when she thought
way around the U.S. travel ban to North believed to be among the Lewis Marsy she could have one of the ready- she ran over a raccoon.
Korea, but Guinness rules allowed for the Chessmen found on the Isle of Lewis in made cakes on display. It wasn’t until The animal surprised the
“blue house” visit to count as stepping Scotland’s Outer Hebrides in 1831. they cut it that they learned it was just mother and daughter
foot on North Korean land. The pieces are believed to have been frosting-covered polystyrene. moments later when it
Alford’s record, if confirmed by carved in Trondheim, Norway, in the late The family said they were given a $60 climbed to the windshield of
the still-moving car.
Guinness, would unseat British man 12th or early 13th century before making Walmart gift card as compensation and a Lowry’s mother, Michelle
James Asquith, who visited every country their way to the Isle of Lewis, where 93 voucher for a free cake. Lowry, captured video of the
on Earth by age 24. pieces were discovered in 1931. “This was the result of a misunder- raccoon’s daring stunt.
“For Guinness, the hardest part isn’t The Lewis Warder, which would have standing. We attempted to make things The video shows the rac-
even the travel for breaking the record,” been used in the same way as the rook in right with the customer by way of a gift coon hop down when the car
Alford told The Union newspaper in a modern game of chess, was described as card,” the retailer told KTRK-TV. C stops and dash away. C