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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