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2019 BITS
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Wacky
10th, Wacky

July PIECES
World
| World Security cameras at a
EXAMINER Canadian restaurant captured

the moment a bear strolled in
through the front door in an
News
apparent search for barbecue.
The footage, recorded by
IRISH News surveillance cameras at Gaucho
Brazilian Barbecue in Canmore,
Alberta, shows the bear enter-
ing the restaurant.
The animal is seen exiting
the eatery a few moments later.
Drivers stop on Georgia high- Police warned local residents to stay years to pop out,” Baltzell told CNN. The restaurant joked the
way to grab flying cash out of the water at a nearby beach until The pastor posted photos of the wal- bear was turned away for a vio-
Police in Georgia are warning wit- the reptile is captured. They said the lets to Facebook along with the names lation of the “no shirt, no shoes,
nesses who grabbed cash that flew gator will be taken to a local zoo for from some of the IDs in hopes they no service” policy. C
from the back of an armored truck on evaluation once it is secured. would be recognized by relatives.
the highway that they could face “Most likely, the person that’s An injured kitten was res-
charges if they don’t return the money. Animals escape when vandals owned the wallet is either at the end of cued from the undercarriage of
Witnesses captured video Tuesday break into Roswell, N.M., zoo their lifespan or no longer living,” a New Jersey police car thanks
evening when an armored truck travel- Roswell, N.M., police are seeking Baltzell said. “My best chance was to to officers, Department of
ing on Interstate 285 near Ashford information after vandals cut locks and reconnect with one of their relatives.” Public Works employees and an
animal rescue group.
Dunwoody Road, near Atlanta, lost a fences in the city’s zoo, allowing some Baltzell was surprised, however, The nonprofit Ramapo-
large amount of cash through a side animals to escape. when KSDK-TV told him one of the Bergen Animal Refuge said
door that came open in transit. Five animal exhibits in the Spring owners, Betty Sissom, 89, is still living North Haledon Police Officer
The videos show vehicles stopped River Park and Zoo were affected. Zoo in the St. Louis area. Nicholas Florio was flagged
on the highway as their occupants grab staff noticed cut fencing when on Sissom said it was shocking to be down by a resident to help cap-
cash from the roadway. Sunday morning. All the animals were reunited with the tattered red wallet. ture a loose kitten in
Dunwoody police urged people who accounted for, several wandering away “I can’t imagine somebody stole all Hawthorne, but the cat ran
grabbed money during the “isolated from their enclosures but otherwise those wallets and put them behind the under the car and hid in the
cash storm” to turn it in at the police staying within the grounds. toilet in a space I didn’t even know was undercarriage.
Florio carefully drove to the
station. A bobcat, two coatimundis and a there,” Sissom said. North Haledon Department of
“While we certainly understand the raccoon were found in “keeper areas” She said the wallet contained one Public Works, where the car
temptation, it’s still theft and the adjacent to their enclosures but not particularly sentimental item: A photo was placed on a lift and employ-
money should be returned. We are accessible by the public, while a hawk, of her brother, who has since died, ees took apart the underside of
thankful there were no crashes or a coyote and one raccoon stayed where while he was serving in World War II. the car to free the feline.
pedestrians struck as a result of this iso- they belonged despite the opportunity “I was just so glad to get that, The Ramapo-Bergen Animal
lated cash storm,” police said in a for a breakout. because I don’t have a picture of him,” Refuge was contacted and per-
Facebook post. The city-operated zoo was closed on Sissom said. sonnel took the kitten to a local
The department said the exact Sunday. animal hospital to be treated for
amount of missing cash was unclear. A police statement said that one or Distillery’s nearly 200-gallon a broken pelvis and minor
Investigators said police will use more persons “cut gate locks and in Caesar cocktail breaks Guinness injuries.
Megan Brinster, executive
license plate numbers from the videos some cases fencing on five animal record director of the RBAR, said the
to identify drivers involved in the cash exhibits, resulting in four animals exit- A Canadian distillery broke a kitten, a female now dubbed
grab. ing their exhibits, but remaining near- Guinness World Record when it mixed Cuffs, is expected to make a full
by.” It called for help in finding sus- up a nearly 200-gallon batch of Caesar recovery and will be placed up
Authorities search for alligator pects. cocktail. for adoption. C
spotted in Chicago lagoon The Last Mountain Distillery in
Authorities in Chicago confirmed Stolen wallet returned to woman Lumsden, Saskatchewan, celebrated its Police in a Netherlands town
the existence of a 4- to 5-foot alligator 75 years later fifth annual Caesar Fest by mixing up are warning drivers on a busy
spotted swimming in the Humboldt An 89-year-old Illinois woman had 4,572 shots of dill pickle vodka and 318 stretch of highway to keep an
Park Lagoon. an unexpected reunion when her stolen bottles of Clamato juice, resulting in eye out for an escaped kanga-
roo seen hopping in the area.
The Chicago Police Department said wallet was returned to her 75 years 198.1 gallons of cocktail. The police department in
officers responded to the lagoon about later. Co-owner Meredith Schmidt said Epe, Gelderland, said multiple
12:15 p.m. Tuesday to investigate Pastor Seth Baltzell said a plumber the record attempt was inspired by a calls came in Monday morning
reports of alligator sightings and they working on a project to convert the visitor to the distillery in the spring. about the Australian animal
were able to independently confirm the former Centralia High School building “He just assumed, he was like ‘you hopping dangerously close to
animal’s presence. in Centralia to a church discovered a guys must hold the record for the the N309 highway.
A local photographer captured an stash of 15 wallets in the wall of a girls’ world’s biggest Caesar then?’ and I kind Officers responded to the
image of the alligator and posted it to bathroom. of looked at him blankly and realized, area, but they were unable to
social media, where it quickly went The wallets had been stripped of why don’t we hold that record?” corral the marsupial.
“The biped is fast and it has
viral. cash, but still contained school IDs that Schmidt told CBC News. not been possible to catch it,”
Authorities enlisted the assistance of identified their owners as students The cocktail bested the previous police said in a Facebook post.
animal expert “Alligator Bob” to help from the mid-1940s. record of 177.8 gallons. Police said they were able to
search for the reptile. Animal control “We’ve been working on this build- Schmidt said she is prepared to mix identify the loose kangaroo’s
and state wildlife officials set baited ing for six months. I’ve been kind of up an even larger Caesar at next year’s owner, but the animal
traps for the gator in the hopes of con- waiting for that really cool thing that festival if the distillery is pushed to remained on the loose
ducting a humane capture. nobody’s seen in the last 75 or 100 defend its title. C Tuesday. C