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           IRISH EXAMINER  |  October 30th, 2019
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             World                                                                                                             home  security  cameras  cap-
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                                                                                                                                 A  Connecticut  family’s

                                                                                                                               tured the moment their neigh-
              News                                                                                                             bor’s runaway horse took a fly-
               News
                                                                                                                               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
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