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2019 BITS

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
News
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
A
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