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2019 BITS
&
Wacky
16th, Wacky PIECES

October
World
Authorities were called to an
| World Oregon school where a bobcat
was found wandering the build-
EXAMINER News ing while classes were in ses-
News
sion.
Staff members at Oak Hill
School in Eugene said students
IRISH were on campus Tuesday when
a bobcat was spotted wandering
inside the building.
The wild animal was closed
up inside a room and authori-
‘Dream job’ offers $1,000 to June 13, was found in a cupboard in the mends using paper maps in place of GPS. ties were summoned to the
watch 30 Disney movies in 30 days family’s basement, where he had apparent- A Google Maps representative said the scene.
A website is celebrating the upcoming ly been hiding the whole time. company is investigating the situation. The feline was removed
release of Disney+ by offering a “dream “He just found a nice dark spot and was safely without injuries to
job” opportunity for five fans looking to hanging out there,” she told CBC News. Restaurant owner living on roof human or animal, officials said.
make $1,000 by watching 30 movies in 30 “We’d almost given up on him.” until Bengals win a game The Oregon Department of
days. Monty’s disappearance took on extra An Indiana restaurant owner has pledged Fish and Wildlife said bobcats
Reviews.org said the five selected appli- drama in July, when a python that was ini- to live in a tent on the roof of the establish- are found all over the state,
cants will each receive $1,000, a year’s sub- tially thought to be the missing snake was ment until his favorite team, the Cincinnati only staying away from high-
scription to the new streaming service and a found poking out of a sewer grate. Bengals, win a game. altitude areas and cultivated
farm lands. C
selection of Disney-related movie watching Toronto Animal Control brought the Jeff Lanham, owner of Hog Rock Cafe in
supplies, including a blanket, cups and a snake to the family, and Sannella said her Milan, pledged before the Bengals’ face-off Guinness World Records
Pixar popcorn popper. son noticed after a few days that the python with the Arizona Cardinals that he would announced a 50-year-old sloth
The $1,000 will be deposited directly into was too large and had the wrong markings take to the roof of the eatery if the Bengals living in a German zoo is offi-
the winners’ bank accounts. to be Monty. lost, and he was then obligated to keep his cially the oldest-known mem-
“It’s up to you if you keep ‘em there or The second python, dubbed Sneaky promise. ber of her species.
cash out the $1,000 in coins, then dive into Pete, is now living at an animal sanctuary, Lanham’s bad luck continued this week The record-keeping organi-
them a la Scrooge McDuck,” the web site and Monty is back in his tank. when the Bengals lost to the Baltimore zation said Paula, a two-toed
states. “I’m very happy to know it’s not loose in Ravens 23-17 and are now 0-6. sloth, was caught wild in South
Applications, which are being accepted the house somewhere,” Sannella said. He said he is hoping to be able to come America and was estimated to
be at least 2 years old when she
through Nov. 7, consist of answering a list down from the roof after the upcoming was brought to the Halle Zoo in
of questions on the contest website and Italian town warns tourists not game against the Jacksonville Jaguars. Saxony-Anhalt in 1971.
making a video review of a Disney movie. to use Google Maps after “Just start playing like a team, get our Officials said sloths typically
144 emergency calls starters back, the guys that are injured get live about 20 years in the wild,
Stranger uses bank transfers to A town on an Italian island is pleading them back on the field,” Lanham told and average 30-40 years in cap-
return man’s lost wallet with tourists not to use Google Maps after WKRC-TV. “You know I think personally if tivity.
A British man who lost his wallet on his 144 emergency calls came in during the past they get back, they’ll win.” “Paula is still fine, but you
way home from work had the lost item two years from drivers and hikers who Wildman Walker, who famously spent can see she is old,” Jutta Heuer,
returned by a clever stranger who used his found themselves stranded. 61 days living on a billboard in 1991 waiting a zoo curator and an authority
bank account to get in contact. Mayor Salvatore Corrias of Baunei, in for the Bengals to win, visited Lanham on on sloths in Europe, told
Guinness. “The hair is light and
Tim Cameron said his wallet didn’t have the Ogliastra area on the island of Sardinia, the roof Sunday. He brought a signed photo not so compact. The claws
much in the way of information that would said signs are being erected on area roads in asking Lanham not to break his record. grow in different ways - the
help a finder contact him, but the stranger Italian and English warning tourists: “Don’t “I hope I don’t,” Lanham said. same as with elderly people. Of
who found it decided to put the bank infor- follow the directions on Google Maps.” course, she moves slowly and is
mation inside to good use. Corrias said the local fire brigade has Escaped bull interrupts soccer very relaxed.” C
Cameron tweeted screenshots showing received 144 emergency calls during the game in Argentina
how the honest bystander made transfers of past two years from drivers and hikers who A runaway bull caused an unexpected Animal rescuers in
$0.01 to his account, putting brief messages found themselves stranded or lost by bad interruption to a soccer game in Argentina Wisconsin came to the assis-
into the memo line. directions while trying to find scenic “hid- and the unusual incident was caught on tance of a raccoon found with
The memo had limited characters, so the den” beaches. camera by a spectator. an aluminum can stuck over its
head.
stranger made multiple transfers explaining “Too many sedans and hatchbacks are The bull, which is believed to have The Wildlife In Need Center
the wallet had been found and giving getting stuck on unpassable tracks - some- escaped from a nearby slaughterhouse, ran in Oconomowoc said the rac-
Cameron their phone number. times offroad vehicles too. All because they wild through the soccer game Sunday coon was captured by Humane
Cameron said the plan was successful follow Google Maps, whose instructions are morning in San Pedro de Jujuy, sending Animal Welfare Society person-
and he was reunited with his wallet, with all often misleading on our roads,” Corrias told players and spectators running for safety. nel and brought to the center
contents intact. CNN. A video captured by a spectator shows for assistance Monday.
He said the most recent incident referees blowing their whistles to warn peo- Staff sedated the raccoon and
Missing Toronto python found in involved two tourists whose Porsche ple to clear the area as the large bovine they were able to pull the can off
owner’s basement four months later became stuck on a rough road in the charged at members of the public. A man without injuring the animal.
“Luckily, the can wasn't on
A python that went missing early in the Supramonte mountain range. The tourists on a motorcycle was seen chasing the ani- too long since there were not
summer in Toronto, setting off a months- were trying to find some of the region’s mal across the field. any skin abrasions and the rac-
long search that involved a case of serpen- famous white sand coves when their GPS Authorities said one man was taken to a coon was only a little dehydrat-
tine mistaken identity, has been found hid- took them off track. hospital with minor injuries. ed,” the center said in a
ing in his owner’s basement. The mayor said officials have been in Police were able to chase the bull away Facebook post. “He was given
Samantha Sannella said Monty, the ball contact with Google Maps about correcting from the field, but it was unclear whether fluids and after waking up has
python that escaped from his terrarium the errors, but in the meantime he recom- the animal was successfully captured. C already eaten a snack.” C