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2019 BITS
&
Wacky
23rd, Wacky PIECES

October
World
A Chinese farmer shared
| World video of a rare find - a two-
headed snake that he captured
EXAMINER News on his property before it later
News
escaped.
The farmer in Shenzhou,
Hebei Province, said he found
IRISH a snake with two heads slither-
ing around his yard and cap-
tured it to show to his family
and neighbors.
Video captured by the
Resale store worker finds parking space in front of a Kowloon luxury found tucked into the pocket of a purse she farmer shows the snake con-
$7,000 in jacket pocket apartment building. bought at a thrift store. tained in a pot.
A worker at an Indiana resale shop dis- The parking space is believed to now be Mary Morton said she bought acces- The man said the snake
covered $7,000 in the pocket of a jacket and the most expensive in the world, costing sories for her Halloween costume at the later escaped when the pot
was able to track down the cash’s rightful more than three times the median cost of a Goodwill store in Lincoln and one of the was knocked over.
owner. home in Hong Kong. items she bought was an old purse. Snake experts in New
Jennifer Kimes, who works at Plato’s Morton said she later discovered what Jersey announced in
Closet Valparaiso, said she was examining Researchers teach rats to drive, appears to be a wedding ring inside the September they had captured
a jacket that was recently brought into the find out it reduces stress purse. a two-headed timber rat-
tlesnake. The Herpetological
store when she found something in the Researchers in Virginia said they trained “It was very obvious that it’s been worn Associates of Burlington
pocket. rats to drive tiny cars and learned the activ- a lot and that someone for some reason County said the snake was
“When I put my hand in the pocket, I ity was a means of stress relief for the took it off,” Morton told KOLN-TV. “It being cared for by experts and
felt something. When I pulled the money rodents. was precious to someone. I’ve run through would be unlikely to survive
out, it made me panic a little bit, So, I put it The scientists at the University of a thousand scenarios in my head.” in the wild. C
back in the pocket for a second and then I Richmond’s Lambert Behavioral She said the purse contained only scant
took it back out of the pocket and ran over Neuroscience Laboratory said they trained other clues as to its previous owner’s iden- About 11,000 people
and put it in the register, and immediately two groups of rats to operate the “rat-oper- tity. donned costumes and got on
called the owner of the store,” Kimes told ated vehicle,” or ROV, which works by “"I pull out some saline packets, an their bicycles for the Zombie
Bike Ride, organizers of the
Fox News. having the rats push down on a copper bar expired ticket to a show and a quarter,” annual Fantasy Fest event in
She said the discovery was extremely that propels the tiny car forward. Morton said. “Then I’m like I feel some- Key West, Fla., said.
unusual. The rats were rewarded with Froot thing down here and it ended up being a The Sunday evening event
“I mean, sometimes you find gum, or a Loops cereal when they drove to the end wedding ring, a really nice wedding ring.” along the Atlantic Ocean
picture, or a grocery list,” Kimes told WLS- of the enclosure. Morton posted a photo of the purse on shoreline and streets of Key
TV. “You don't find $7,000 in a pocket.” Kelly Lambert, head of the laboratory Facebook along with a description of her West featured some 11,000
Kimes’ boss, Tammy Wendland, was and lead author of the story, said the group discovery, but she said the post has yet to people in zombie costumes
able to help her identify and contact the of rats raised in an “enriched” environment connect her with the ring’s true owner. and makeup peddling together
former owner of the jacket, who had for- with toys and ladders were better able to “I just wanna get it back to the owner to the annual ZombieFest
Street Party on Duval Street.
gotten where his money was stashed. drive than the group of rats raised in a plain because I know wedding rings are impor- The zombies were joined
“Just extremely, overwhelmingly grate- lab cage. She said the rats with more activ- tant to people and their families,” Morton by a smattering of skeletons,
ful,” Wendland said. ities had greater neuroplasticity - the abili- said. evil clowns and other spooky
Kimes said she was happy to be able to ty of their brains to grow and change over Halloween-themed ghouls.
do a good deed at work. time - due to having more stimulation. Bears break into Montana The 10-day Fantasy Fest,
“It’s just about integrity. So when you Lambert said researchers analyzed the garage, feast on beef tenderloin which runs through Sunday,
work with things like this you have to rats’ droppings and found both groups of A Montana homeowner said bears also includes a pet masquer-
make sure that you’re honest and you do rodents had an increase in hormones that broke into her garage and raided her freez- ade, the exotic Headdress Ball,
the right thing,” she said. control stress responses. She said the task er, eating an entire beef tenderloin, among themed costume contests and
apparently increased the emotional other foods. an evening parade. C
Hong Kong parking space sells resilience of the animals, and could have Ronnie Morris of Missoula said she A couple dining on oysters
for nearly $1 million implications for humans. spots bears on her property about once a at a New Jersey restaurant
A Hong Kong businessman set a new “It is likely that driving gives the rats a week, but a group of the animals recently made an unusual discovery
record for the city when he sold a coveted sense of control over their environment,” managed to open her garage doors and raid inside one of the shellfish - a
downtown parking space for a total she said. “In humans, we would say that it her chest freezer. pearl.
$969,000. enhances a sense of agency or self-effica- “They ate an entire beef tenderloin from Anton and Sheryl Schermer,
Johnny Cheung, who formerly owned cy.” Costco, a couple of lamb roasts and frozen of Tenafly, said they were on
four parking spaces in front of the 79-story Lambert said the study could have huckleberries,” she told KFBB/KWYB. their fourth oyster at Stern &
office tower The Center, previously sold implications for how researchers approach The Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Bow in Closter when they dis-
covered the pearl.
three spaces for sums in the high six digits, depression and other mental illnesses in Department said bear sightings in Missoula Anton Schermer said he
but the final spot ended up fetching the humans. have recently increased, with one incident had eaten the oyster and
highest price: $969,000. “Anything that reduces stress can build involving a bear in a tree outside St. Patrick found the pearl inside his
Cheung did not identify the buyer, but resilience against the onset of mental ill- Hospital being broadcast live on A&E mouth.
said it is someone with office space inside ness,” she said. series Live PD. The couple gifted their find
the skyscraper, which has only 40 total James Jonkel, bear specialist with the to the restaurant, which said it
parking spaces available. Nebraska woman finds wedding Fish, Wildlife and Parks Department, said plans to frame it for display.
The amount is the largest ever paid for ring inside thrift store purse another resident nearby Morris recently Restaurant workers said the
a parking space in the city, beating out a A University of Nebraska student is try- reported bears had twice invaded their pearl was the first found inside
an oyster at the eatery. C
$760,000 price shelled out in 2018 for a ing to find the owner of a wedding ring she home. C