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           June                                                                                                                PIECES
              World
           |  World                                                                                                            shared video of a deer that
                                                                                                                                 Police in New York state
           EXAMINER                                                                                                            wandered into a mall and ran

                                                                                                                               loose inside a sporting goods
               News
                                                                                                                               store.
                                                                                                                                       Clarkstown
                                                                                                                                 The
                                                                                                                                                  Police
           IRISH  News                                                                                                         Department said the “Bambi
                                                                                                                               lookalike” apparently “decided
                                                                                                                               it was a good day to go shop-
                                                                                                                               ping” at Dick’s Sporting Goods
                                                                                                                               at the Palisades Center Mall.
                                                                                                                                 The   department  shared
                Fake license plate leads to       and North America with a time of 124  porary.                                video of the deer running loose
               driver’s arrest in California      days, 11 hours.                         Auction house Sotheby’s said the     inside the store.
              Authorities in California said a fake  Graham began her trip at the       lock of hair from the 19th century       Police said a store employ-
            license plate that listed the wrong   Brandenburg Gate in Berlin and rode   musician is scheduled to hit the auc-  ee was able to coax the deer
            name for the state led to the arrest of a  her bike to the far side of China before  tion block Tuesday, with high bids  outside and it ran away unin-
            truck driver.                         catching a flight to Perth, Western   expected at between $15,000 and        jured. C
              The Moorpark Police Department      Australia.  She  then  rode   across  $19,000.
            said a motorcycle officer pulled over a  Australia and New Zealand before fly-  The auctioneer said the hair was     A California sheriff’s office
            tractor-trailer spotted with an appar-  ing to Alaska and riding across the state  given by Beethoven to contemporary  said an open-water training
            ently hand-made license plate that list-  and Canada to Halifax, Nova Scotia.  Anton Halm as a gift for Halm’s wife.  exercise was interrupted by a
                                                                                                                               13- to 15-foot great white shark
            ed the state as “Califas,” a Spanish    “There wasn’t ever a day I felt like  Beethoven reportedly gave the lock of  swimming in shallow water.
            slang term for California.            giving up. Once I started I was on it, I  hair to Halm personally after declaring  The  Sonoma  County
              The driver of the truck ended up    was always going to carry on in this  that a lock of hair Halm had procured  Sheriff’s Office said the water
            arrested on drug charges, driving with-  journey,” Graham told Guinness offi-  from a third party was actually from a  training in Bodega Bay was
            out a license and having an active war-  cials.                             goat.                                  called off Tuesday when a heli-
            rant for his arrest.                    She said she faced several varieties  Sotheby’s said the hair headed to    copter spotted the massive
              “The tractor-trailer he was driving  of extreme weather during her trip.  auction is “indisputably human” and    shark swimming in the area.
            was towed from the scene because it     “I thought as I’m from Scotland that  comes with a silk thread and a 19th    The sheriff’s office said the
            was unsafe to be driven,” the depart-  it wouldn’t affect me too much but   century glazed oval frame.             shark was swimming in shal-
            ment said.                            dealing with the wet and the cold when                                       low water at the mouth of the
                                                                                                                               Estero Americano, in almost
                                                  you’re sleeping out every night, I      Firefighters crawl under car to      the same spot that crews had
              Bird of prey escapes London         found that wore me down quite a bit. rescue kitten from undercarriage        been using for training the pre-
                  Zoo for a second time           They were the two extremes. I also had  A New York state fire department     vious day.
                       in two years               some tornadoes crossing Canada,” she  shared video of firefighters crawling    “The White Shark was esti-
              The London Zoo said a bird of prey  said.                                 underneath a car to rescue a kitten    mated to be about 13-15 feet
            that escaped for the second time in 18                                      stuck in the engine compartment.       long, definitely making it the
            months was recaptured after two days        Italian island covered            The    Rochester   Fire   Fighters   ‘Daddy Shark doo doo doo doo
            on the loose.                                in millions of locusts         Association IAFF Local 1071 posted a   doo dood,’” the sheriff’s office
              Zoo officials confirmed Louie, a stri-  Farmers on an Italian island shared  video to Twitter showing firefighters  said. C
            ated caracara native to the Falkland  video of a massive swarm of millions of  on their backs underneath a car.      A digital traffic sign in
            Islands, flew the coop during a public  locusts that have descended on the    The firefighters reach up into the   Houston   was   apparently
            demonstration Sunday and headed for   area.                                 undercarriage to extract a kitten.     hacked to display apocalyptic
            nearby Regent’s Park.                   Coldiretti, Italy’s farming associa-  The department said the kitten went  messages warning of a climate
              Park visitors complained zoo offi-  tion, said the grasshoppers are causing  home with a firefighter.            catastrophe.
            cials trying to capture Louie were    damage to crops and posing a danger                                            The sign, located off Waugh
            walking around the area with a dead   to livestock near the city of Nuoro in      Swooping seagull steals          Drive and Allen Parkway, was
            rat on a stick to entice the bird.    Sardinia.                                  sandwich on Maine coast           spotted early Wednesday flash-
              Louie resisted the temptation of the  The U.N. Food and Agriculture         A tourist’s attempt to take a photo  ing messages including “Global
            rat and was captured in a nearby resi-  Organization said the cause of the  of her first lobster roll in Maine went  warming at work,” “Warning:
            dential area Tuesday morning.         swarm is unclear.                     awry when she captured the moment a    Hurricane Human,” “Triassic
                                                                                                                               weather ahead” and “We are
              The same bird previously escaped      Cordiretti officials theorized an   seagull swooped down to grab her       the asteroid.”
            the zoo in January 2018 and was on the  unusually cool May could be to blame  food.                                  It was unclear how the hack-
            loose for 10 days before being recap-  for the influx of insects. They said the  Alicia  Jessop,  who  lives  in   er gained access to the sign.
            tured in Regent's Park.               sudden warming of temperatures this   California, was visiting Maine when      Signs  along  a  North
                                                  month may have caused eggs laid in    she attempted to take a photo of her   Carolina highway were hacked
                Scottish cyclist circles the      the autumn to hatch all at once.      lobster roll sandwich with a lighthouse  in a similar fashion in May
               globe for Guinness record            The farming association said it is  as a scenic backdrop.                  2018, when drivers noticed the
              A Scottish cyclist broke a Guinness  looking into options to prevent similar  Jessop ended up capturing the      signs were displaying messages
            World Record when she rode her bicy-  swarms from occurring in the future.  moment a seagull grabbed the lobster   warning of “idiots on bikes”
            cle 18,000 miles around the globe in                                        roll in its beak while she was holding it  ahead of the local Ironman
                                                                                                                               competition.
            124 days.                                 Lock of Beethoven’s hair          in her hand.                             Another     sign     in
              The record-keeping organization               up for auction                “This is why we can’t have nice      Pennsylvania was hacked that
            announced Jenny Graham earned the       A lock of Ludwig van Beethoven’s    things. I was trying to take a picture of  same month with a rude mes-
            record for fastest circumnavigation by  hair is scheduled to be auctioned in  the lobster roll I ordered in Maine and  sage  instructing  Delaware
            bicycle (female) when she finished her  Britain nearly 200 years after the  well, this happened,” Jessop wrote in a  County to perform a lewd act
            journey across Europe, Asia, Australia  German composer gave it to a contem-  Facebook post. C                     with a sex organ. C
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