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2019 BITS
Wacky
7th, Wacky &
August PIECES

World
A rare, sealed copy of a 1987
| World Nintendo game sold for $9,000
EXAMINER News after being found in the attic of
the seller’s childhood home in
News
Nevada.
Scott Amos said he found
IRISH the sealed copy of Kid Icarus, an
apparently forgotten Christmas
or birthday gift, in the attic of
his mother’s home in Reno.
The game, which was origi-
nally purchased for $38.45
Dog survives 6-story fall by derby in the Tacoma Narrows late last ning. including tax, is one of the more
crashing through car’s sunroof week when she encountered a group of Ward said a plumber who examined the rare games to find in sealed con-
A dog survived a six-story fall from the fishermen who had landed a small octo- damage explained the lightning must have dition, Heritage Auctions said.
roof of a New York building when he pus. ignited the methane gas inside the septic The auction house listed
crashed through the sunroof of a parked “It was a photo contest in the derby. So, tank, causing the explosion. Amos’ discovery online, where
car. crazy me, hindsight now and looking back, “I already sent a picture out to my kids it sold for $9,000.
Emma Heinrich said the 2-year-old I probably made a big mistake,” Bisceglia and said don’t do it! Here’s the proof of Amos said he is planning to
French bulldog, Winston, went running told KIRO-TV. why you shouldn’t go near the bathrooms split the proceeds with his sister
up the stairs of her Manhattan apartment Bisceglia put the octopus on her face to in a thunderstorm,” Ward told WRCB-TV. and take a family trip to Disney
building and bounded onto the roof, pose for the photo. World. C
where he was unable to stop before reach- “I thought, this is pretty cool. It was a Bear collides with hiker on the A Chicago highway was cov-
ing the ledge. gorgeous, exotic creature, and I put it on Appalachian Trail in North Carolina ered in wine early Tuesday
“I kind of watched him reach the edge my face and said take my picture. Then all A hiker on the Appalachian Trail in when two semi trucks collided,
and try to slow himself down, but it was of a sudden, they notice and I notice, my North Carolina had an unusual encounter spilling hundreds of bottles out
too late and he just tumbled over the eyes just widened, and it had put its beak with a bear that dashed across the trail and onto the roadway.
edge,” Heinrich told WCBS-TV. “It was into my chin, not once but twice. It was knocked her over. The Illinois Department of
one of the most terrifying moments that like a barbed hook going into my skin,” she Great Smoky Mountains National Park Transportation said the two
I’ve experienced. It was really, really scary. told KING-TV. officials said the woman was hiking on a trucks crashed about 12:30 a.m.
The 3 seconds between him going over the Bisceglia said her chin was bleeding for section of the Appalachian Trail near Tuesday on Interstate 94, near
edge and him making impact was ... felt a while after the bite. Camel Gap when she was knocked over by 130th Street on the Far South
Side.
like hours.” “It was a really intense pain when it a bear running across the trail. One of the trucks, which
Heinrich said she ran down to the went inside and it just bled, dripping blood The woman, who was not injured, told was carrying about 40,000
street, expecting to recover the lifeless for a long time,” she said. rangers the bear was not acting aggressive- pounds of wine bottles, had its
body of her 30-pound pet, but she was in She said she continued fishing in the ly and apparently bumped into her acciden- trailer break open during the
for another shock when she made it out- derby for two days before deciding to go to tally. crash, spilling cases of wine
side. the emergency room for the pain she was GSMNP spokeswoman Dana Soehn across the road.
“He was just up, sitting on the driver’s continuing to feel from the bites. The octo- said it is common for bears to run across Illinois State Police said one
seat. Just kind of, like, heavily panting but pus, believed to be a Pacific red octopus or the trail, but it’s unusual for the animals to person was treated for minor
just looking around at everyone staring at a juvenile giant Pacific octopus, had inject- collide with hikers. injuries as a result of the crash.
Crews worked to clean up
him. Everyone was like, ‘Is this your dog?’ ed Bisceglia with venom. A Colorado woman hiking the Coast the broken glass and spilled
And I was like, ‘Yeah.’ I was almost, could- Busceglia said she has learned her lesson Mountains, near Whistler, British wine for several hours. Lanes
n’t speak for a minute because I was in about handling potentially dangerous ani- Columbia, had a scary bear encounter last reopened about 6 a.m., officials
shock and awe that he was seemingly so mals. week when an animal charged at her while said. C
OK,” Heinrich said. “And I’m still in pain,” Bisceglia said. she was taking photos of the landscape.
Winston had crashed through the car’s “I’m on three different antibiotics. This can Sherry Moore said she was able to drive Police in New York were
sunroof, sustaining only minor injuries. He come and go, the swelling, for months the bear away by standing her ground and called to a Staten Island Ferry
received some stitches at the local vet and they say.” making intimidating sounds at the predator terminal to remove 25,000 bees
was sent home. until it fled. that took up residence on an
“I’m still trying to wrap my head Lightning strike causes Florida awning.
Police
The
New
York
around the astronomical odds of him walk- family’s toilet to explode Alligator knocks on South Department said its beekeeper
ing away from this fall with nothing more A lightning strike on a Florida home’s Carolina family’s door unit responded to the St.
than a few cuts and scratches,” Heinrich septic tank had an unexpected result - a toi- A South Carolina woman said she George terminal about 3 p.m.
told CNN. let exploded inside the home. expected a package delivery when she Sunday when the swarm of
Heinrich said she and her husband have Marylou Ward, co-owner of the Port heard knocking outside her house, but it bees was spotted on an awning.
offered to pay to have the car’s sunroof Charlotte home, said there was a loud turned out to be an alligator at her door. Police said the swarm was
repaired. boom Sunday when lightning struck the Jo Brunson said she heard a knocking at first spotted by police Lt.
home’s septic tank and caused a toilet her Hilton Head-area home and looked out Michael Molinari, who sum-
Woman posing for photo with inside the house to shatter. expecting a package, but ended up slam- moned the beekeeper unit and
octopus bitten twice on the face “We come in here and the toilet was ming the door in the face of a 3- to 4-foot Special Ops Truck 5 to the
A Washington state woman participat- laying on the floor,” Ward told WINK-TV. alligator. scene.
The Patrol Borough Staten
ing in a fishing derby learned a valuable les- “There’s all pieces everywhere. Pieces Brunson said her two teenagers didn't Island ferry security unit also
son when she posed for a photo with an everywhere.” believe her until they saw the animal for assisted with the bee capture,
octopus and the mollusk bit her on the She said the strike ruined the home’s themselves. police said.
face. indoor plumbing and destroyed the septic The mother said she contacted authori- No injuries were reported
Jamie Bisceglia, founder of South Sound tank. She said her family was lucky no one ties, but the gator ended up leaving on its from the insects, which were
Salmon Sisters, said she was at the fishing was using the toilet at the time of the light- own after about 40 minutes. C safely relocated. C