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           3rd,  Wacky                                                                                                                      &
           July  Wacky                                                                                                         PIECES

           |                                                                                                                     A Texas couple adopted a
              World
           EXAMINER  World                                                                                                     stray kitten found outside a

                                                                                                                               barn and quickly discovered a
                                                                                                                               unique feature - the feline has
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                                                                                                                                 Heather Lehman of China
           IRISH  News                                                                                                         24 toes.
                                                                                                                               Spring said her husband found
                                                                                                                               the kitten, which they dubbed
                                                                                                                               Titus Pullo, hanging around a
                                                                                                                               barn in Valley Mills and sent
                                                                                                                               her a photo.
                                                                                                                                 “My husband had sent me a
                 Raccoon knocks out electricity   landed on the sidewalk, got up and trotted  Bear makes repeated visits to    photo saying ‘check out this
                         in Illinois city         across the road,” Francis told CityNews.     Florida rec center pool         guy's feet!’” Lehman told
              Utility officials in an Illinois city said a  Francis said the deer did not appear to be  Residents of a Florida city are being  KWTX-TV. “I said, ‘ohhh
            raccoon knocked out power for 211 cus-  bleeding and wasn’t showing any signs of  warned to keep an eye out for a black bear  that’s a polydactyl cat!’ I’ve
            tomers and lived to tell the tale.    injury as it ran away from the scene.  that made two visits to a recreation center  never had one, always wanted
              City Water, Light and Power, the munic-  ‘This neighborhood gets more interest-  pool, including once when it was occupied.  one.”
            ipal utility for the city of Springfield, said the  ing every day I’m here,” he said.  The Holley by the Sea Improvement  Cats typically have 18 toes,
            curious raccoon broke into an electrical cab-                               Association said the black bear was first  but a genetic mutation called
            inet early Monday and damaged equip-    Nearly 4,000 form world’s largest   spotted visiting the Holley by the Sea  polydactylism sometimes caus-
            ment.                                    human maple leaf in Canada         Recreation Center in Navarre when it took  es them to have extra toes.
                                                                                                                                      Minnesota
                                                                                                                                                 woman
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              The raccoon knocked out electricity to  An Ontario town captured a Guinness  a swim in the pool between 8:30 a.m. and  revealed last year that her cat,
            211 customers downtown, including some  World Record when it gathered 3,942 peo-  9:30 a.m. June 20.               named Paws, has 28 toes -
            government facilities.                ple into the shape of the largest human  April Salazar, general manager of the rec  tying the Guinness World
              The utility tweeted that the raccoon sur-  maple leaf.                    center, said the pool was not yet open for  Record. C
            vived the encounter.                    The town of Trenton, which organized  the day at the time of the bear’s visit and the
                                                  the event as part of its weekend-long  animal was spotted by maintenance staff.  Authorities in Florida said
             Bear breaks into California home,    Canada Day celebrations, said a Guinness  Salazar said the bear visited the pool a  multiple trucks were swal-
                   trashes laundry room           representative was on hand to confirm the  second time June 24 and was seen wander-  lowed up by a pair of sinkholes
              A California man captured video when a  record when the nearly 4,000 participants  ing around the pool deck and appearing to  that opened up under a busi-
            bear broke into his home and trashed the  donned red shirts and formed the shape of  consider a swim, but kept a distance  ness early Wednesday. County
                                                                                                                                 The
                                                                                                                                        Orange
            laundry room before authorities arrived.  the national symbol.              because there were people in the pool.  Sheriff’s Office said a pair of
              Kenneth Morse said he heard a commo-  Organizers said they were hoping to   “He didn’t actually try to get in with  holes opened about 1 a.m.
            tion inside his home about 11:30 p.m.  break the record with 5,000 people, but the  them,” Salazar told the Pensacola News  Wednesday at C&A Trucking,
            Sunday and he came out of his office to find  3,942 participants were enough to beat the  Journal. “When he realized that they  near Orlando International
            a bear in his laundry room.           previous record of 1,589 people, set in 2017  weren’t going to get out, he turned around  Airport, causing several trucks,
              Morse shared photos and video of the  in Grouse Mountain, British Columbia.  and left.”                          semi trailers and construction
            bear - taken from outside the laundry room  The event was aimed at raising aware-  Salazar said wildlife officials searched for  vehicles to fall.
            window - on Facebook.                 ness of Solider On, a program that helps vet-  the bear after both sightings, but it disap-  Authorities said the cause
              The homeowner said the bear knocked  erans and active duty military personnel  peared before they arrived.       of the holes is being investigat-
            over the washing machine, causing water to  participate in sports as part of therapy for                           ed. The owner of the business
                                                                                                                               said they might have been
            flow into the room, and ripped up a portion  permanent physical injuries and mental ill-  Doctor finds live tick inside ear  caused by the draining of a
            of the ceiling while it was trapped inside the  ness.                              of woman with tinnitus          lake on a nearby property.
            room.                                                                         A doctor at a hospital in Thailand shared  No  injuries  were
              The Nevada County Sheriff’s Office and   Tiger chases motorcycle on       video of the unusual discovery inside the  reported.C
            the Ophir Hills Fire Department arrived on       road in India              ear of a woman complaining of tinnitus - a
            the scene and were able to set the bear free.  A conservation non-profit in India shared  tick.                      A soccer game on the side-
            The animal, which did not appear to be  video showing a tiger briefly chasing after a  Dr. Piradee Chanmonthon, 37, an oto-  lines of the FIFA Women’s
            injured, was last seen running into the near-  motorcycle on a road through a wildlife  laryngologist at Buddhachinaraj Hospital in  World Cup in France this week
            by woods.                             sanctuary.                            Phitsanulok, said the 50-year-old woman  lasted for 69 hours and broke a
                                                    The Forests and Wildlife Protection  came into the hospital complaining of a  Guinness World Record.
                                                                                                                                 Equal Playing Field, a non-
              Deer crashes through thrift store   Society, which posted the video to    ringing sound that had been in her left ear  profit dedicated to empower-
                         in Alberta               Facebook, said two Forest Department offi-  for weeks.                       ing women in sports, organ-
              A security camera at a thrift shop in  cials were riding the motorcycle through  Piradee looked inside the woman’s ear  ized the game in Lyon - which
            Alberta captured the moment a confused  the Muthanga Wildlife Sanctuary in  and discovered a tick had bitten the inside of  featured 807 players, including
            deer ran through the store, took out a dis-  Wayanad, Kerala, when the passenger  her ear repeatedly.              numerous professional ath-
            play and exited through a window.     recorded the footage.                   The doctor said the tick was deep in the  letes.
              John Francis, the manager of Mission  The video shows a tiger darting out of  woman’s ear canal and was removed via  The game ended with a
            Thrift Store in Edmonton, said the deer  the woods and chasing the motorcycle at a  suction.                       score of 404-369.
            dashed in through the open back door and  high speed.                         “Luckily, the tick didn’t lay eggs or had-  The nonprofit said it was
            ran through the store.                  One of the people on the motorcycle can  n’t embedded in her ear because that would  successful in breaking the
                                                                                                                               Guinness record for the largest
              He said it crashed through a display in  be heard screaming in the footage as the  take longer to removed and might have  number of players to appear
            the front window on its way toward break-  tiger gives chase.               involved an operation,” the doctor said. “I’d  continuously in a five-per-side
            ing through the plate glass.            The FAWPS said the Forest Department  like to warn all animal lovers to regularly  match. Guinness required each
              “It jumped straight ahead right through  officials, who were riding through the sanc-  shower your pets, especially in this rainy  player to spend at least 10 min-
            the shelving, busted a bunch of dishes, took  tuary to investigate a reported tiger sight-  season, before playing and taking them to  utes on the field and touch the
            the plate glass out immediately, kind of  ing, were not injured.            bed with you.” C                       ball at least once. C
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