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2019 BITS
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Wacky
11th, Wacky PIECES

December World Alaska Airlines announced it

season by offering priority
| World is celebrating the Christmas
boarding for one day to passen-
EXAMINER News gers wearing ugly sweaters.
News
The airline said passengers
who wear holiday sweaters on
Dec. 20, National Ugly Sweater
IRISH Day, will be offered priority
boarding on all Alaska and
Horizon Air flights.
“We love going above and
Festive SUV pulled over for told the Bozeman Daily Chronicle. told WCMH-TV. “She was probably beyond to make your trip
excessive Christmas lights It was unclear why the can of bear spray happy until we caught her and you know memorable; celebrating Ugly
The Washington State Patrol is warning had been placed inside the oven. what? Maybe she just kind of gave up. She Sweater Day is just another
drivers not to get too festive with their got tired and gave up and they caught her way we’re making the holidays
vehicles after an SUV decked out with Maine girl’s message in a bottle on 270.” a priority,” said Natalie
Christmas lights was stopped on the high- found 36 years later Rescuers said they believe Payton trav- Bowman, Alaska Airlines’ man-
way. An 11-year-old Maine girl threw a mes- eled about 65 miles during her time on the aging director of marketing and
Trooper H. Axtman, public information sage in a bottle into the water and it was loose. advertising.
The airline said it is also
officer for Washington State Patrol District found 36 years later by a man walking the Judis said Payton may have put her working to spread holiday
7, tweeted photos showing the vehicle Cape Cod beach in Massachusetts. adventurous ways behind her, as she now cheer by playing festive music
with a light-up Christmas tree on its rear Joshua Mendes, 42, said he was beach likes to walk circles around Judis whenev- during boarding and offering
and the roof rack covered in colored lights. combing two days before Thanksgiving in er they go out for a walk. specialty cocktails.C
“What does the Grinch and a Trooper Provincetown when he found the glass
have in common? They both would have Coke bottle mostly buried in the sand Pigeons spotted wearing tiny An Alaska resident came to
pulled this vehicle over for illegal lighting,” about a mile from Race Point Ranger cowboy hats in Las Vegas the rescue of a moose that got
Axtman wrote. Station in the Cape Cod National Animal rescuers in Las Vegas said they its face tangled in Christmas
He said the trooper “didn’t have a heart Seashore. are trying to capture pigeons spotted wan- lights and the incident was
two sizes too small” and the driver was let The bottle contained a message signed dering with tiny cowboy hats on their caught on video by a doorbell
camera.
go with a warning. by an 11-year-old Jonesport, Maine, girl heads. The Anchorage-area resi-
Residents responded to Axtman’s tweet named Jenny Brown. The note was dated A video posted to Facebook by Bobby dent’s Ring camera was record-
with photos of a vehicle spotted in the area May 14, 1983. Lee shows a group of pigeons foraging in a ing when the man came out-
with even more intricate lights, including a “I think it’s been buried in the cliffs Las Vegas parking lot near Tropicana side to help the moose, which
glowing snowman on the trunk, and there, all those years,” Mendes told the Avenue and Maryland Parkway and some had Christmas lights from the
Axtman said troopers are aware of the Bangor Daily News. of the birds are wearing little red cowboy house’s front porch wrapped
vehicle being spotted around Snohomish Mendes and his father, Paul Mendes, 73, hats. around its face.
County. attempted to locate Brown, but the only Mariah Hillman, who runs animal res- The footage shows the man
“Love the Christmas spirit, definitely information given in the note was a post cue group Lofty Hopes, said she is con- slowly reach out and take hold
not legal and very distracting,” he tweeted. office box that they doubted would still be cerned about the welfare of the pigeons. of the lights, leading the moose
to pull its head back and come
in the girl’s name. “At first, I was like, oh my god that’s free from the string.
Explosion at Montana home caused The Bangor Daily News shared the saga cute!” Hillman told KVVU-TV. “Then, I The video shows the moose
by bear spray in the oven on Facebook, where it came to the atten- was like, wait a minute - how did they get linger for a few moments in the
Firefighters responding to a reported tion of Kathy Marie Brown, who con- those hats on there?” man's yard, with no apparent
explosion at a Montana home said it firmed Jenny is her sister and still lives in Hillman said she is hoping to capture signs of injury from its brief
turned out a can of bear spray had been left Jonesport. the pigeons and remove the hats. entanglement. C
inside a warming oven. “Jennifer Brown is well aware now! “Did they glue them? And what does
The Bozeman Fire Department said Thank you to all that have reached out,” that mean for them?” she said. “Is it some- A Los Angeles resident’s
three engines responded Tuesday after- Kathy Marie Brown wrote in a comment. thing that’s going to impede their flight or home security camera recorded
the moment a sneaky squirrel
noon to a residence where an explosion attract predators?” C stole a package from their front
had been reported. Escaped dog traveled 65 miles porch.
Firefighters said there were no flames, before being caught Snake delays start of The video, recorded
but the occupants of the house, who were A dog that escaped from a rescue in cricket match in India Tuesday in the San Pedro
not injured, were evacuated while crews Ohio was captured two months later trav- A professional cricket match in India neighborhood, shows the pint-
investigated. eling an estimated 65 miles and being spot- was delayed Monday when a snake wan- sized porch pirate grab an
The department said firefighters discov- ted 22 times. dered out into pitch just as players were Amazon package from the
ered a can of bear spray had been left inside Lost Pet Recovery said Payton, a long- getting into position. stoop in front of the front door
a warming oven in the home and had haired mixed breed, escaped from the fos- The Ranji Trophy match between of the home and flee with its ill-
gotten goods.
exploded while the oven was pre-heating. ter family she was placed with by Andhra and Vidarbha in Vijayawada was The resident said a witness
Firefighters said the explosion was con- RescuedOhio in the Columbus area. delayed for several minutes when the spotted the squirrel and
tained to the oven and they used large fans Payton was spotted about 22 times dur- snake slithered out into the pitch while returned the package to the
to air out the residence before the resi- ing her two months on the loose, and Lost Vidarbha players were taking the field. home.
dents, three young men, were allowed Pet Recovery set a trap and a camera at the A video shared by the Board of Control The person said the squirrel
back inside. location of the last sighting, near Interstate for Cricket in India, the sport’s governing is now suspected to be the cul-
“It wasn’t malicious, and it was con- 270. body, shows players attempting the shoo prit behind previous incidents
fined to the oven so we vented the house “She had been out for probably [two the snake away from the field. of packages being found in
and then it was turned back over to the res- months] and that was probably her happy The serpent was eventually ejected and bushes around the apartment
complex. C
idents,” Battalion Chief Grover Johnson place,” RescuedOhio volunteer Lori Judis Vidarbha ended up winning the match. C