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IRISH EXAMINER | October 30th, 2019
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Wacky PIECES
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World home security cameras cap-
World
A Connecticut family’s
tured the moment their neigh-
News bor’s runaway horse took a fly-
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ing leap into their backyard
pool.
Kathy Saeed said she was
preparing to leave her Wilton
home Monday morning when
she spotted her neighbor’s
horse on her front lawn.
Saeed said she watched as
Marijuana-filled balloon was cations, said there were actually multi- duty summons in the mail, and the par- the horse was pursued into the
inside man’s nostril for 18 years ple raccoons, and they had been spotted ents sent it back explaining he was back yard by its owner and the
A team of Australian doctors said inside the library before. underage. animal took a leap into the
they removed a marijuana-filled balloon “It’s my understanding that there The Connecticut Judicial Branch said pool, ending up trapped under
from inside the nose of a man who were probably two or three raccoons. the family followed the correct proce- the pool cover.
inserted the object into his nostril 18 Our facility management folks were dure. The family’s home security
years earlier. alerted by the library staff and they Officials said the branch gets names cameras captured the equine’s
The doctors at Westmead Hospital in came out last night and humanely for jury duty from the The Department plunge on video.
Police, firefighters and ani-
Sydney wrote in the British Medical trapped them,” Smith told KAIT-TV. of Motor Vehicles, the Department of mal control officers responded
Journal’s Case Reports that the patient, He said the raccoons, which were Labor, Registrar of Voters, and the to the home and were able to
a former prison inmate, recalled his girl- released away from campus, likely ven- Department of Revenue Services. The remove the pool cover, allow-
friend had smuggled a small balloon tured inside to escape the rain. received names do not include the bear- ing the horse to climb out with-
filled with cannabis to him during a visit “With all the rain we have in the ers’ ages. out any serious injuries. C
to the prison 18 years ago. area, these streams that are near the A Pennsylvania family received a sim-
The man said he inserted the balloon library, then we have woods that are ilar surprise in the mail in February 2018 The U.S. Forest Service is
into his right nostril to evade detection also near the library that rising water when Luke Fox, 11, was issued a jury seeking information about a 1-
“Despite effectively smuggling the has driven some of the wild-life out. In duty summons. Jeanette Fox, Luke’s ton boulder that was apparently
package past the prison guards, [he] this case, they weren’t just looking for mother, said she called an 800 number stolen from the side of a road in
Arizona’s Prescott National
then accidentally pushed the package higher ground, they were looking for on the summons and the woman she Forest.
deeper into his nostril and mistakenly some higher learning as well,” Smith spoke to said the court system had The Forest Service said the
believed he had swallowed it,” the doc- said. recently switched companies in charge boulder, known as Wizard
tors wrote in the report, which was of compiling the list of people who Rock, vanished about two
titled A nose out of joint. Cat alerts sleeping owner to New receive summonses. weeks ago from the side of
The doctors said the man, now 48, York state apartment fire Highway 89/Whitespar Road
had the balloon in his nose for 18 years A New York state woman credited Mystery of 71-year overdue in the Prescott National Forest.
before years of sinus infections, nasal her cat with saving her life when it alert- library book solved in Pennsylvania “The Wizard Rock was a
obstructions and related headaches led ed her to a fire in her apartment. The mystery of a library book large, 1 ton, beautiful black
boulder with white quartz run-
him to seek medical attention. Danielle Schafer said Kitty, the feline returned to a Pennsylvania library 71 ning through it and special to
The medical team performed a CT she rescued off the street as a kitten years past its due date was solved with the community,” the Forest
scan and discovered a rhinolith, a stone about five years ago, jumped on her help from the person whose library card Service said.
that developed when the balloon was while she was sleeping in her home at was found inside the book. Officials said an 80-pound
enveloped in calcium salts over time. University Park Apartments in Lansing, The book, titled So Build We, was heart-shaped rock was previ-
The rhinolith was removed and doc- alerting her to the flames spreading returned to the Osterhout Free Library ously stolen from Granite
tors discovered it contained a balloon through the walls and the smoke filling in Wilkes-Barre earlier this month by Mountain Wilderness and was
filled with decaying plant matter. the residence. Mary Scheib, who found it while clean- returned anonymously after
The man then recalled the cannabis- Schafer said Kitty vanished into the ing out a homestead belonging to her media reports about the missing
smuggling incident and recounted the smoke before she fled the apartment, late spouse, Sally Healey. stone. C
object’s origins to the doctors. but was reunited with her pet when a The library joked on Facebook that A German dentist was
The team said the case marked the firefighter found her the next day. the 2-cent-per-day late fee would have awarded a Guinness World
“first reported case of prison-acquired Kitty was treated for smoke inhala- come to $517.42. Record when a 1.46-inch tooth
marijuana-based rhinolith.” tion and corneal abrasions at Cornell's The book contained a library card he pulled from a patient’s
Companion Animal Hospital. belonging to Josephine Comito Murphy, mouth was certified as the
Raccoons invade Arkansas State The fire, which completely destroyed 91, who said she had no memory bor- world’s longest.
University library nine apartments and displaced 12 resi- rowing the book from the library. Dr. Max Lucas said he pulled
A math tutor visiting the Arkansas dents, was found to have included mul- Family members theorized the book the tooth from the mouth of a
State University’s library captured a tiple propane tank explosions. The blaze was checked out by Ann Donahue, patient who came in complain-
ing of severe dental pain in
photo of an unusual patron browsing is under investigation. Murphy’s late cousin and a former resi- 2018.
the stacks - a wet raccoon. dent of Healey’s homestead. The book Lucas said it took about a
Codie Clark said he was at the Dean Connecticut boy, 10, receives was found among nursing books year to send Guinness the
B. Ellis Library to give a math tutoring jury duty summons believed to have belonged to Donahue. required paperwork to get the
session when he spotted the raccoon on A Connecticut family was surprised “I was so excited that I could get the tooth recognized as the world’s
the third floor of the building. when a jury duty summons arrived in book back to the Osterhout that I didn’t longest.
Clark’s photo shows the wet raccoon the mail bearing the name of their son - even think to look for the woman,” The dentist received his
standing between shelves full of books. who is only 10 years old. Scheib told The Citizens’ Voice news- Guinness certificate Tuesday.
Bill Smith, the school’s associate vice The Dondero family of Glastonbury paper. “I was happy with their reac- He said he plans to display it in
his office. C
chancellor for marketing and communi- said their son, Nick, 10, received a jury tion.” C