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Wacky
21st, Wacky &

August PIECES
World
A 15-inch snake was left
| World behind at a security checkpoint at
EXAMINER News New Jersey’s Newark Liberty
Airport,
the
International
News
Transportation
Security
Administration said.
The TSA said the snake was
IRISH apparently left behind by a pas-
senger passing through the secu-
rity checkpoint at the airport and
was found by a TSA officer.
The officer placed a plastic bin
Arkansas park visitor finds 3.72- expecting it,” Wheeles told the all.” over the snake until Port
carat yellow diamond Indianapolis Star. “It hit my car and Pretty said some residents have tried Authority Police arrived to take
A visitor to Crater of Diamonds State bounced a couple of times. ... It’s not reaching out to Our Pleasure, but their custody of the reptile.
Park in Arkansas found a 3.72-carat yellow something I could really let fly.” concerns were dismissed. He said people The animal was identified as a
diamond, the largest diamond found at Wheeles said he ticketed the driver. His are particularly upset that the company non-venomous ring-necked
the park in over two years. patrol car was not damaged.. was taking photos of sex toys outdoors in snake. The species is not danger-
Miranda Hollingshead, 27, of Bogata, daylight hours. ous to humans.
Texas, said she was sitting at the base of a Arizona trooper tackles escaped “They had one picture right next to the “Our security procedures
hill on the northeast side of the park and emu at the side of the highway playground ... it’s not right.,” he said. “I don’t prohibit passengers from
watching a YouTube video on her phone An Arizona Department of Public think about the children. There’s no need bringing snakes on flights,” the
TSA said. “However, you should
about how to find diamonds when she Safety trooper was able to help an escaped of an 8-year-old seeing Our Pleasure going contact your airline to determine
looked down and spotted the gem. emu find its way home by tackling it at the around with sex toys in the community.” their policy on traveling with
“I shook my hand across it to make sure side of the highway. Cathy Daniels, owner of Our Pleasure, pets.” C
what it was, picked it up, and yelled across DPS Trooper Doug Gagna responded said the company was careful to make
the field to my mom, ‘I think I got one!’” to a report of an escaped emu in Maricopa sure no one was around when the photos A German city that’s the sub-
Hollingshead said. and he arrived on the scene to find the bird were taken. ject of a long-running joke alleg-
The family headed to the park’s being chased around Interstate 8 by some “In our industry, we’re very sex-posi- ing that it doesn’t exist is offering
Diamond Discovery Center, where offi- witnesses wielding a blue tarp. tive. But still, it’s still a very taboo topic to a $1.1 million reward to anyone
cials confirmed it was a 3.72-carat yellow Gagna said the group’s lucky break talk about it,” she said. “So, for us, for who can prove the conspiracy
diamond. Officials said it was the largest came when the emu tripped on a barbed Dildo to be [in the media], although they theory is true.
The mayor of Bielefeld said
diamond found by a park visitor since wire fence and he was able to tackle the were talking about the community, they the 800-year-old city will award
March 2017, and the largest yellow dia- 80-pound bird, allowing its owner to cap- were also talking about the object.” the cash to anyone who can pres-
mond found there since October 2013. ture it safely. Pretty said a petition calling on Our ent convincing evidence that the
Park Interpreter Waymon Cox said The trooper said it was the first time in Pleasure not to use photos of the town for city doesn’t exist.
recent weather likely contributed to his five years on the job that he had been its advertising and social media campaigns JokesaboutBielefeldbeingfic-
Hollingshead’s discovery. called to deal with a large bird. already has five pages of signatures. tional become prominent on the
“Much of the ground where Ms. “We really hope [the petition] will Internet after computer science
Hollingshead found her diamond is made Suggestively-named town seeks make a difference,” he said. student Achim Held posted the
of unweathered volcanic rock,” Cox said. to stop adult toy company from claim online in 1994 as a means of
“When it rains, flowing runoff often using signs Bear breaks into California home, satirizing far-fetched conspiracy
theories.
leaves loose gravel, and sometimes dia- Residents of a Newfoundland and raids fridge “We are excited about the cre-
monds, on the surface in these areas. Labrador town with a famously sugges- A California family’s home security ativesubmissionsandare99.99per-
Diamonds have a brilliant, adamantine tive name are petitioning to stop a sex toy camera was rolling when a black bear cent sure that we will be able to
luster that makes them easy to spot, and company from using their sign for adver- wandered into the house and raided the refute any claims,” Martin
Ms. Hollingshead happened to be sitting tisements. refrigerator. Knabenreich,headofmarketingfor
in just the right place to see the diamond The town of Dildo was gifted a Hayes Sherman, 15, and Bobby the city, told Deutsche Welle. C
sparkle in the sun,” he said. Hollywood-style sign last week by U.S. Harden, 15, were watching TV at
Hollingshead said she hasn’t decided late night TV host Jimmy Kimmel, who Sherman’s family’s vacation home in A cow escaped from a British
whether to have the diamond appraised jokingly ran for mayor of the town, and Truckee when they heard a loud noise slaughterhouse and went for a
and sold, or whether to mount it to a ring adult toy company Our Pleasure posted a coming from the kitchen late at night. run through a city, becoming a
social media celebrity in the
as a souvenir. video to Facebook showing off some of its The boys investigated and discovered it process.
products in front of the sign and other was a black bear taking taco meat and ice The young, brown cow was
Diaper tossed out window on the local landmarks Saturday. cream from the refrigerator. spotted running near the M6
highway hits trooper’s patrol car Andrew Pretty, a member of Dildo’s The bear’s feast was recorded by home highway toward the center of
Police in Indiana said a driver was tick- local service district committee, said security cameras. Carlisle, England, Wednesday
eted when a dirty diaper tossed out a win- despite the town’s name, residents were The boys fled back to the TV room and after escaping from the West
dow by a backseat passenger struck a not pleased to find out their town was called Sherman’s mother, telling her not Scottish Lamb Limited slaughter-
trooper’s car. being used to sell sex toys. to come downstairs. house.
Indiana State Police Sgt. Stephen “We didn’t think it was appropriate,” A Placer County Sheriff’s Office deputy Twitter users nicknamed the
cow “Daisy” and used the hash-
Wheeles said he was on Interstate 65 in Pretty told The Telegram newspaper. “A responded to the home and was able to tag “#SaveCarlisleCow” to call
Johnson County when a soiled diaper flew lot of people are upset over it.” drive the bear away by shooting it with a for the bovine to be spared from
out from the backseat window of a car in “If they had just casually mentioned the bear round from a shotgun. slaughter.
front of him and bounced off his squad name on their site and didn’t go to that The boys said the bear apparently got Cumbria Police said officers
car. extreme, we wouldn’t have had a prob- into the home through an open garage located the cow and made the
“I was heading home after working the lem, but they went too far with this,” he door. They said the incident is a reminder decision to shoot and kill the ani-
Indiana State Fair, tired, and wasn’t really said. “That’s not what the town is about at to keep doors and windows locked. C mal. C