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World
| World A 99-year-old California
EXAMINER woman broke two Guinness

World Records when she piloted
a plane and gave a flight lesson in
News
the air.
Robina Asti, 99, was named
IRISH News the world’s oldest flight instructor
and active pilot after she gave her
final flight lesson Sunday at
NextGen Flight Academy at
Riverside Municipal Airport.
“I love getting people to expe-
Police chase loose steer through Baumann said the fox was kept for while skydiving was reunited with his rience what it’s like to lift off this
Alberta city for 90 minutes observation over night and was released limb thanks to a sharp-eyed Vermont Earth,” Asti told KABC-TV. “It is
Police in an Alberta city said they were the next day. farmer who found it intact among his so good.”
led on a 90-minute foot chase through resi- Davies said the incident highlights the crops. Asti said she wanted to show
dential streets and alleyways when a loose hazards of littering. Chris Marckres said he went for a tan- that senior citizens are still capa-
steer was spotted wandering through “I’m so delighted I was able to help the dem jump Saturday at Vermont Skydiving ble of making valuable contribu-
neighborhoods. fox and that he has been released. Sadly, a Adventures in Addison and didn’t realize tions.
The City of Red Deer said RCMP offi- lot of people throw rubbish over into the until he was safely on the ground that his The flight instructor took the
cers chased the loose steer for 90 minutes as back yard of the church so I don’t know prosthetic leg was missing. world’s oldest pilot record from
an Iowa man who flew a plane at
it fled through yards and roads in the where the reel came from. It’s so irrespon- “I think my adrenaline was so high and the age of 98. C
Vanier Woods, Lonsdale and Lancaster sible when people litter as it can hurt both I was just so excited, I didn’t realize I had
areas. animals and humans alike,” he said.. lost it,” Marckres told NECN/WYCN. A rare blue lobster delivered
“My guess is it wandered in from a near- Marckres posted a plea on Facebook to a Red Lobster restaurant in
by farm, but exactly where it came from is Australian pub bans emus for local residents to keep an eye out for Ohio was spared from gracing a
still unknown,” said Kevin Duval, munici- for ‘bad behavior’ his missing leg, as replacing it would be patron’s dinner plate when
pal enforcement officer with Alberta A pub in the Australian outback has expensive. employees found it a new home
Animal Services. “This kind of thing does- banned a pair of beloved local emus from The post came to the attention of West at a zoo.
The Akron Zoo said staff at
n’t happen very often. It happens here and the establishment for improper acts, includ- Addison farmer Joe Marszalkowski, the Red Lobster in Cuyahoga
there but it’s pretty rare that a big animal ing stealing food and defecating on the whose property is located near Vermont Falls spotted the blue crustacean
like this comes into the city.” floor. Skydiving Adventures. He searched his in a delivery and recognized it as a
The steer was eventually captured safe- The owners of the Yaraka Hotel in property Sunday and found the leg, which rare specimen.
ly, Duval said. Yaraka (permanent population 18), was completely intact and seemed to have The eatery contacted the
“We just made a human wall essentially, Queensland, posted a sign at the entrance incurred only a few minor scratches, Monterey Bay Aquarium, which
us and members of the RCMP, and he of the pub stating that the town’s local among his crops. in turn contacted the zoo about
came into a back yard and then walked out emus, Kevin and Carol, no longer are “I was very grateful to have found it giving a new home to the lobster,
and straight into the trailer,” he said. allowed inside. without running it over with a machine which was dubbed “Clawde”
The steer was transported to a safe loca- “Emus have been banned from this this fall during harvest,” Marszalkowski after Red Lobster’s mascot.
A zoo employee traveled to
tion while officials attempt to identify its establishment for bad behavior,” a sign at said. “Or, God forbid, the combine sucked the eatery and brought Clawde to
owner. the door reads. it up - it would’ve destroyed it.” his new home.
Gerry and Chris Gimblett, the business’ Marszalkowski met with Marckres on “Clawde is acclimating to his
Fox rescued after getting head owners, said they had to ban the emus after Monday to return the leg. new home here at the Akron
stuck in middle of plastic reel the large birds learned to climb the front “I can’t thank everybody enough, espe- Zoo, in a special tank that has
A fox that got its head stuck through the steps. cially Joe. We kind of take for granted been dubbed ‘Clawde’s Man
middle of a plastic reel outside a church in “They’ve been stealing things from the sometimes how many truly good people Cave’ by his care team,” the zoo
Britain received assistance from animal res- guests, especially their food. They’d stick there still are in the world,” Marckres said. said. C
cuers and veterinarians. their heads in and pinch toast out of the
A British police department
The RSPCA said Father Carl Davies toaster,” Gerry Gimblett told Guardian Dog that jumped from car said officers responding to a report
spotted the fox outside St. Catherine’s Australia. window found 600 miles away of a “large apex predator” - a black
Catholic Church with its head stuck “But the main reason we’ve banned A dog who jumped out of a car win- panther-inapublicparkarrivedto
through the middle of the discarded wire them is their droppings. They’re enor- dow on a South Carolina highway was find the supposed dangerous ani-
reel. mous, very large and very smelly, and they found 11 days later - 600 miles away in mal was only a stuffed toy.
“At first I thought it must be a dead dog created great stains,” she said. Florida. Horsham Police said officers
but then I saw the poor thing was alive and The Gimbletts said they installed a rope Tim Whitfield said his family got the were summoned to a park in the
had a cable tunnel stuck on his head and he barrier outside the pub and a sign asks cus- dog, Bella, for his 90-year-old mother just Steyning area of West Sussex,
was in a lot of distress, struggling to get it tomers to remember to close the rope after a few months ago, and earlier this month England, on a report of a big cat
off. It was a terrible thing to see an animal entering to prevent the emus from follow- the canine vanished after leaping from a on the loose.
The department said the offi-
suffer like that,” Davies said. ing. car window on the highway near cers who arrived at the scene did-
Davies contacted the RSPCA, which dis- “They still hang around each gate, hop- Charleston. n’t immediately realize that what
patched Deputy Chief Inspector Charlotte ing that they’ll be able to slip in when Whitfield said Belle was located initially appeared to be a black
Baumann to the scene. someone opens it up,” Chris Gimblett told Sunday, 11 days after jumping from the panther was actually a stuffed toy.
“We don’t know how long he had been the Australian Broadcasting Corp. “But so car window, in Miami, Fla. - about 600 “Reports of a large apex preda-
stuck like that but the poor thing must have far we are winning the war.” miles away. tor in the Steyning area turned out
been very stressed out,” Baumann said. “I Belle was reunited with Whitfield’s to be true,” Horsham Police
had to take him, with the holder attached, Farmer finds prosthetic leg mother Monday. tweeted. “It may be a stuffed toy,
to a nearby vets where he could be sedated dropped by skydiver It was unclear how Belle ended up on but the attending officers didn’t
necessarily know that at first.” C
and gently removed from the plastic reel.” An amputee who lost his prosthetic leg such a long journey. C