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2020 BITS
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Wacky
12th, Wacky PIECES

February Police in Florida responded
World

| World to the home of a resident who
found an unusual intruder in
EXAMINER News their garage - a 7-foot alligator.
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The North Port Police
Department said officers were
called to a North Port home
IRISH Tuesday when a resident found
the large gator next to the dri-
ver’s side door of the car parked
in their garage.
Police were able to wrangle
Japanese man dubbed world’s strong in most animals,” Bassinger told years! So amazing!” Lowery wrote. the gator out of the garage with-
oldest at 112 years, 344 days the Wytheville Enterprise. “Generally, Trinity told Rebecca Bloom, Theo’s out any injuries or property
A resident at a Japanese nursing home most females will take the young back, mother, that the boy would be rewarded damage.
was named the world’s oldest living man even after it has been handled by with a 1 Year Annual Membership for him The department said the alli-
at an age of 112 years, 344 days. humans.” and an adult. gator was released into a local
Chitetsu Watanabe of Niigata, Japan, canal. C
was presented with a Guinness World Driver caught using carpool lanes Transit officials warn against riding
Records certificate Tuesday naming him with stuffed dinosaur passenger outside San Francisco trains A squirrel climbed a utility
the oldest person living (male). A Washington state driver is facing a Transit officials in San Francisco are pole in Pennsylvania and
knocked out electricity to about
Guinness said Watanabe took the man- hefty fine after being caught using a high- warning residents about dangerous behav- 765 customers, a utility
tle following the death of Masazo Nonaka, way carpool lane with a giant stuffed ior after videos emerged online showing spokesman said.
who died Jan. 20, 2019, at the age of 112 dinosaur as their only passenger. people hitching free rides on the outside of Todd Meyers, spokesman for
years, 226 days. Trooper Rick Johnson of the trains. power provider Penelec, said
Watanabe lived on a farm with his son, Washington State Patrol said a driver was Videos filmed from both outside and about 765 people lost power
Tetsuo, until age 104, growing fruits and pulled over Wednesday for speeding in inside a San Francisco Muni train emerged about 9:43 a.m. Monday in
vegetables. He also cultivated 100 bonsai the high-occupancy vehicle lanes of during the weekend showing a man stand- Granville Township and
trees. Interstate 5 northbound. ing on the hooks outside the train and tak- Lewistown Borough.
Repair crews determined the
Chitetsu said the secret to his longevity The trooper conducting the traffic stop ing a free ride. cause of the outage was a squir-
is to “not get angry and keep a smile on quickly discovered the driver’s only pas- Another recent video shows another rel that climbed a utility pole
your face.” senger was a big green stuffed dinosaur man holding a skateboard while perform- near an intersection and came
The current oldest living person toy. ing a similar train surfing stunt. into contact with electrical
(female) is Kane Tanaka of Fukuoka, “Even if you have a favorite stuffed ani- A representative for the San Francisco equipment. Power was restored
Japan, who is 117 years, 41 days old. mal it doesn’t count as a passenger for the Municipal Transportation Agency, which by 10:30 a.m.
The oldest man on record was HOV,” Johnson wrote. oversees the Muni trains, said the behav- Meyers said the crews
Jiroemon Kimura, who died in 2013 at age The driver could be facing a hefty fine ior in the videos is dangerous and the installed animal protection gear
116 years and 54 days. The oldest woman thanks to a law that took effect last sum- agency is working on a public awareness on the repaired equipment to
was Jeanne Louise Calment, who died in mer that adds a $200 fine to the $186 base campaign to prevent people from dupli- prevent a repeat incident.
A much larger animal - a
1997 at age 122 years and 164 days. fine for a HOV violation if a driver is cating the stunts. snake - was found to be the
caught “using a dummy, doll, or other “You can’t regulate stupidity but I think cause of a power outage in
Virginia dog brings home human facsimile to make it appear that an that just a little common sense impart on Meade County, Ky., in August
orphaned bear cub additional person is in the vehicle.” all of us can go a long way,” the represen- 2019. Utility officials said repair
Wildlife rescuers in Virginia said an tative told KRON-TV. crews found the barbecued
orphaned bear cub is being fostered out to Boy, 7, diving at hot spring finds snake coiled up with some
another mother in the wild after the baby wedding ring lost in 1970s New Zealand fisherman catches equipment inside a power trans-
was found by a dog that gently carried it The operators of a hot spring in Idaho North American freshwater turtle former. C
home. said a 7-year-old boy diving for treasure A fisherman in New Zealand said his
Police and animal rescuers
The Virginia Department of Game and found a wedding ring that was lost in the unusual catch, a freshwater turtle native responded to an Iowa airport to
Inland Fisheries said a Washington late 1970s. to North America, might end up as his wrangle a trio of escaped cows
County resident called a rehabilitator to The Trinity Hot Springs in Paradise new pet. who made their way to the run-
report their dog had arrived home carry- said in a Facebook post that a 7-year-old Gavin Cameron said he was fishing for way.
ing an apparently orphaned bear cub. guest named Theo was diving for hidden salmon with some friends in Dunedin’s The Ames Animal Shelter
Bill Bassinger, a VDGIF district wildlife treasures at the bottom of the water when Steamer Basin during the weekend when a said personnel responded with
biologist, retrieved the cub from the home he came up with a diamond ring. small turtle swam right up to their boat. the Ames Police Department
and said the animal was unharmed and the “I saw a silver rounded thing and then I Cameron said he and his friends when a call came in Thursday
dog appeared to have been very gentle lifted it up and was like that’s a wedding plucked the turtle out of the water and about three escaped cows on the
with the wild animal. ring,” Theo told KTVB-TV. placed it in a bucket to bring it back to runway at Ames Municipal
Airport.
The cub was taken to The Wildlife Trinity posted about the find on its offi- shore. The shelter said it “was prob-
Center of Virginia in Waynesboro, where cial Facebook page, saying there were no They contacted the local SPCA after ably one of our more truly
officials used radio tracking collars to iden- wedding rings recently reported lost at the some online research revealed it was a Iowan calls for service.”
tify another mother bear in the wild caring resort. red-eared slider turtle, a freshwater species The cows were wrangled
for newborn cubs. Sherrie McClure Lowery replied to the native to North America. with the help of police and the
The baby bear was placed with the post, saying she had lost her wedding ring Wildlife officials in New Zealand said animals’ owners, the shelter said.
mother this week, and officials said they at Trinity in the late 1970s. She included a the species of turtle is a common pet, but “We’re not sure if pigs fly,
expect the mother will care for the cub as photo of the ring, which the resort con- is considered an invasive species and it is but we’re pretty sure we estab-
one of its own. firmed was the same item found by Theo. illegal to release them into the wild in the lished last night that cows do
not,” the shelter said. C
“The mothering instinct is just very “That treasure was buried for over 40 country. C