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Wacky
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World
A South Australia man cap-
| World baby koala hitched a ride on the
tured video when a confused
EXAMINER News back of his equally confused
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dog.
The dog’s owner, identified

IRISH only as Henry, said he let the
canine, Tony, out into the yard
of his Adelaide Hills home to do
his business Sunday morning
and moments later he found
Tony was struggling to shake a
Mystery elk on the loose SummerSkyz, Inc., a flight school that to enjoy unlimited numbers of drinks koala joey off his back.
in East Texas operates a helicopter at the nearly that vary depending on the price pack- The baby koala eventually
Authorities in East Texas are trying to Lansing airport. age, which averages $10. fell from Tony's back and ran
determine how an elk ended up in the “They were taking responsibility for “At our bar we don’t sell drinks, we up a nearby tree.
area - and wildlife officials said the ani- it, and whatever needs to be done they sell time,” the website states. “I think his mum was proba-
mal can be legally hunted. would take care of it,” Taylor-Whitt said. The bar offers food only on “Taco bly up in the tree having a sleep
The Gregg County Sheriff’s Office The owners told her the wheel was Tuesday” and “Bottomless Brunch” and the baby thought Tony was
said deputies shooed the elk, which is far from a piece of machinery used to move days, but the owners said customers are his mum,” Henry told The
from any of its usual North American helicopters between airport hangers and free to order delivery at any time. Advertiser newspaper.
He said Tony has recovered
habitats, away from a busy roadway had somehow stayed attached to the aer- Open Concept’s website offers the from the incident. C
Saturday near the East Texas Regional ial vehicle before falling off above her choice to book a drinking in advance and
Airport. home. offers full refunds for anyone who misses An Idaho man was recog-
The sighting led to an influx of their appointment. nized by Guinness World
hunters contacting state officials to ask Squirrels stash more than 200 Records after correctly identify-
whether they could legally hunt the ani- walnuts under hood of car Teen swimmers use CPR to ing 11 ice cream flavors while
mal, and officials confirmed exotic A Pittsburgh woman who detected a revive drowning prairie dog blindfolded - and nearly getting
species can be hunted in Texas. burning odor and heard a strange noise A pair of young Colorado swimmers 12.
“It can be taken any time of year as while driving her car looked under the came to the rescue of a drowning prairie David Rush, who has broken
long as it is taken on land that the person hood and discovered a squirrel had dog and saved its life with CPR tech- more than 100 Guinness
can be there legally, and they have a stashed grass and more than 200 walnuts niques. records to promote STEM edu-
cation, was filmed taste-testing
hunting license a Texas resident hunting on top of her engine. Wolfgang Dittrich, head coach at ice cream for one minute and
license,” Wood County game warden Holly Persic said she hadn't looked Flatiron Swimming, said the team was attempting to guess the flavors.
Kurt Kelley told KLTV. under the hood of her car since an practicing at the Arapahoe YMCA in He correctly identified 12 fla-
The sheriff’s office said the elk is inspection about a month before she dis- Lafayette when teenagers Teagan Mayer vors, but only managed to say
believed to have escaped from some- covered the squirrel’s winter stash and Grace Keogh spotted the prairie dog half of the name of the final fla-
where, but no one has come forward to Monday. at the bottom of the pool. vor - java chip - before the timer
claim the animal. “They were everywhere, under the Dittrich said Mayer jumped into the ran out.
battery, near the radiator fan,” Persic’s water and tossed the prairie dog out onto Guinness determined he tied
Wheel dropped by helicopter husband, Chris, told CNN. “The walnuts the deck, and she and Keogh then took the previous record of 11, set by
crashes through roof on the engine block were black and smelt turns performing chest compressions on Mohameed Ahmad Darwish at
a Kuwait mall in 2013, and
of Illinois home like they were definitely roasting.” the animal. Rush's name was added to
An Illinois family said they returned The Persics said they had earlier The coach said he was shocked when Darwish’s on the record-keep-
home to find a wheel that had been noticed there weren’t many walnuts in the prairie dog started to move, and after ing organization's web site. C
dropped by a helicopter in midair their yard, despite the nuts starting to fall a few seconds water came out of its nose
crashed through the roof of their home. from trees a few weeks ago, but they and mouth and it started shaking. An actor in the Philippines
Linda Taylor-Whitt said she and her were shocked to find out where the miss- The girls flipped the prairie dog onto set what is believed to be an
family had just returned to their ing objects had ended up. its legs and the animal coughed up some unofficial world record when he
Lynwood home from eating out The couple removed the grass and water and scurried away. kept his eyes open without
Saturday evening when her daughter walnuts from the top of the engine and “Sometimes I think this generation blinking for 1 hour, 17 minutes
went upstairs to use the bathroom and took the car to a mechanic, who might get a bad rap,” Dittrich told the and 3 seconds.
Paolo Ballesteros was com-
found the wheel had crashed through the removed the protective plate from under Boulder Daily Camera, “but they also do peting against comedian Allan
roof and was lodged in the ceiling. the vehicle, allowing dozens more wal- really grateful and empowering things.” K as part of a segment on the
“I didn’t know what kind of wheel it nuts to rain down. Jason Clay, a spokesman for Colorado Eat Bulaga! variety show that
was at first, I guessed it was an airplane “Long story short, if you park outside, Parks and Wildlife’s northeast region, pits celebrities against each
wheel. Hysteria went through me,” she do yourself a favor and check under the said the agency does not recommend other in unusual challenges.
told the Chicago Tribune. hood every once in awhile,” Chris Persic giving CPR to wild animals. Allan K managed to make it
Taylor-Whitt contacted the police, wrote on Facebook. “The best thing you can do would be about 34 minutes without blink-
who in turn called the local fire chief to to call your local animal control. Do not ing, and Ballesteros blew his
come take a look at the unusual scene. Missouri bar charges touch or feed wild animals and do not time out of the water.
Guinness World Records
“And they couldn’t believe what they customers by the hour allow your pets to interact with them,” said it has no official record for
were seeing and he was like, ‘I’ve never instead of by the drink he said. not blinking, but website
in my life seen this.’ He said, ‘I’ve been a A Missouri bar is trying out an unusu- YMCA of Northern Colorado RecordSetter.com lists the
fireman for 30 or 40 some years,’” she al business model - charging customers applauded the rescue in a Facebook post. world record as being 1 hour, 5
told WLS-TV. by the hour instead of by the drink. “We know a lot of you love (or toler- minutes and 11 seconds, set by
Taylor-Whitt said she received a call The St. Louis bar, named Open ate) our prairie dog friends at the Julio Jaime of Colorado in
Monday from the owners of Concept, charges customers by the hour Arapahoe Y,” the post said. C 2016. C