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2019 BITS
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4th, Wacky PIECES
December Police in Connecticut

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| World joked a donkey was given a
“field sobriety test” when it
EXAMINER News the rain. Waterford Police a
was found wandering loose in
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The
said
in
Department
IRISH Facebook post the donkey
was found loose in the city
and an officer held onto the
animal’s leash from inside a
patrol car to guide the animal
‘Dog’ rescued by driver who the DNR said. started in the kitchen when the owner’s home because it was raining.
struck it turns out to be wild coyote Officials issued a stay-out-of-the-water dog, a husky, started the microwave, The post joked the donkey
A Manitoba man who struck what he warning for the water from Cove Park to causing a package of bread rolls inside to received a “field sobriety
thought was a dog on his way to work Waipuilani Park. burn and catch fire. test” and was in training for
loaded the animal into his back seat and The homeowner was not present at the department’s new “don-
only later discovered the canine was a Pies taken from unlocked store, the time of the fire but alerted authorities key patrol.”
coyote. money and apology note when he noticed the smoke on the securi- In reality, the donkey was
Eli Boroditsky said he was on his way left behind ty cameras connected to his phone app. reunited with its owner. C
to work at the Bothwell Cheese factory in Police in Missouri said someone took Firefighters said the dog was not A bald eagle crashed
New Bothwell, south of Winnipeg, when two pies from a store that was accidental- injured. through the window of a tax
an animal ran out in front of his car and ly left unlocked while closed - but the cul- “Clearly this is a very strange incident business in Virginia and was
was clipped by the vehicle. prit left money and a note, making it an involving the man’s dog, but it could still caught on camera wandering
“I thought it was a German shepherd “after-hours transaction” instead of a bur- have been more serious,” said Geoff around inside before leaving
or a husky,” Boroditsky told CBC News. glary. Wheal, watch manager at Corringham on its own.
“I didn’t think it was a wild animal.” The Ballwin Police Department said Fire Station. Harry Patterson Jr., who
The man loaded the injured animal the front door of Honey Baked Ham had “When we arrived, the kitchen was manages an Allstate insur-
into his back seat and drove the rest of the apparently been left unlocked accidentally filled with smoke. Firefighters ensured ance office in Virginia Beach,
way to work, where a coworker took a on Thanksgiving Day, when the store was that the damage did not spread beyond captured video when he
arrived for work Monday and
look and informed him the animal was a closed for the holiday, and a customer the kitchen area - but it demonstrates spotted a bald eagle inside the
coyote. who came inside the empty store in the that microwaves shouldn’t be used to neighboring H&R Block
“It is amazing how docile it was. I was afternoon called police. store food when they aren’t in use,” he office, which is closed for the
petting it,” Boroditsky said. Police found some cash on the counter said. season.
Aviva Cohen, another co-worker, was and a note reading: “Happy “Our advice is to always keep your “I was on the phone with a
able to text a wildlife rehab center and a Thanksgiving! No one was here, and we microwave clean and free of clutter or friend and saw it on the inside
conservation officer was dispatched to the were in desperate need of pies. Left food and any packaging. Animals or chil- ledge,” Patterson told The
center to take the coyote from money, took pies. Thanks!” dren can turn them on more easily than Virginian-Pilot newspaper. “I
Boroditsky’s back seat. “(Officers) responded, found the door you might think - so please don’t run the figured it was a stuffed ani-
mal. Then it started to move.
Zoe Nakata, executive director of the open, searched the business,” Officer risk,” Wheal said. I couldn’t believe there was a
Wildlife Haven Rehabilitation Center, Mike Burgoyne told KPLR-TV. “They bald eagle in there and I
told CNN the coyote, estimated to be didn’t find anything inside the business Message in a bottle found couldn't believe what I was
between 1 and 3 years old, is “getting but some money that was left and note in Texas river after 31 years saying to myself.”
stronger by the day.” that said two pies were taken because A Texas man who tossed a message in Patterson’s video shows
She said the coyote is recovering from they were dire need of pies for a bottle into a river in 1988 was reunited the eagle, apparently unin-
injuries including head trauma and Thanksgiving.” with his letter after it was found recent- jured after its crash through
scrapes to its face and leg. Officials expect Police said the pie-taker would have ly by a hunter. the window, flying back out
the coyote to be released back into the had to go behind the counter and retrieve Waylon Jones said he was hunting at through the hole it made in
wild in a few weeks. the pies from a refrigerator, which could Toledo Bend when he found a glass bot- the glass.
“Craziest thing I’ve ever
potentially have led to trespassing tle floating in the Sabine River. seen,” Patterson said. C
Shark bite deflates man’s charges, but the store declined to pursue The bottle contained a note written
paddleboard off Hawaii criminal charges for the “after-hours on a paper plate. Jones posted a photo of Firefighters in China were
Officials issued a stay-out-of-the-water transaction.” the find to Facebook, where it came to called to a shopping mall to
warning for a Hawaii beach after a tiger “Nothing else was missing. We believe the attention of William Hall’s grand- rescue a small boy who
shark bit into a man’s inflatable paddle- $26 was left. Each pie cost $11. So, they daughter, who recognized his handwrit- climbed into a claw machine
board and “aggressively” chased him back even left money to cover the tax,” ing. and became trapped inside.
to shore. Burgoyne said. Hall said he tossed the bottle into the A video recorded at the
The Hawaii Department of Land and river during a hunting trip in Panola mall in Zhongshan City,
Guangdong Province, shows
Natural Resources said Larry Oberto, a Dog starts kitchen fire by County in the fall of 1988. He said the firefighters breaking open the
part-time Maui resident, was stand-up turning on microwave phone number listed in the note is his lock on the claw machine’s
paddleboarding Tuesday off the coast of Firefighters in Britain said a kitchen fire mother’s old number. glass door to free the crying
Kihei when the tiger shark bit into and was caused by a family dog that somehow “Being that it’s been that long, it was child.
deflated his inflatable board. turned on the microwave. probably stuck under a log jam for 20 to The boy’s mother called
Fellow paddleboarder Al gaston pulled The Essex County Fire & Rescue 25 years,” Hall told KLTV of his bottle. firefighters after the boy
Oberto onto his board and the men head- Service said firefighters responded “It’s pretty unique for that to happen climbed into the machine
ed to shore. Monday afternoon to a small fire at a after 31 years,” Hall said. “I probably while her back was turned.
Firefighters said the boy
“They report the shark was acting very Stanford-Le-Hope home. wouldn’t have ever thought of it was not injured. C
aggressively and pursued them to shore,” Firefighters discovered the fire had again.” C