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30th, Wacky PIECES

September World A budget airline is offering

October to central Florida-
| World free flights in the month of
EXAMINER News name of the city of Orlando.
bound passengers who share the
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Frontier Airlines announced
it partnered with Visit Orlando,
the city’s tourism authority, to
IRISH offer free flights to Orlando
and
13
October
between
October 20 for anyone with the
first or last name Orlando.
Juice company offers $1M for zookeepers discovered the outcome of crazy, guys. He’s got two heads. When “Our LOVE for Orlando,
pitch to use 50,000 tons of their time together. he got there, he said, ‘He does have Florida - one of our most fre-
pomegranate waste “It just went ballistic, they were all two heads, don’t he?’” quently traveled destinations - is
A California juice company is offer- swearing,” zoo chief executive Steve Wilson turned the snake, which she HUGE,” the airline said. “To
ing $1 million in funding and develop- Nichols told CNN. “We were a little named Double Trouble, over to the spread the love, we’re offering
ment resources for a plan to do some- concerned about the children.” Catawba Science Center, which con- anyone with the FIRST or LAST
thing about the 50,000 tons of pome- Nichols said zoo officials are hoping firmed it was a non-venomous rat name ‘Orlando’ a free flight to
granate husks the firm disposes of each keeping the birds separated will give snake. Orlando.”
The airline said passengers
year. them an opportunity to clean up their The science center, which is prepar- not named Orlando can buy
The Wonderful Co., based in Los language before returning to public ing to reopen this week following a tickets for the same period of
Angeles, said it is teaming up with display. long shutdown amid the COVID-19 time for discounted prices start-
food waste nonprofit ReFED to search pandemic, said the snake will have a ing at $39.
for a way to use the rind, pith and Car rolls into Utah reservoir new permanent home and will be used Applications for the free
seeds left over from the juicing process while owner snaps photos in educational programs for children. flights are being accepted
in an environmentally friendly way. Authorities in Utah shared photos The science center said the snake’s through October 5. C
The “Wonderful Innovation of a car that “decided to go for a swim” two heads are the result of a mutation
Challenge” is offering $1 million for when its owner got out of the vehicle believed to occur in one out of every A soccer game in Croatia
the pitch that is ultimately selected. to take some photos next to a reser- 100,000 rat snakes. was interrupted when an
escaped parrot celebrated a
The company said registration for voir. team’s goal by swooping down
the challenge is open through Dec. 7, Wasatch County Search and Rescue Texas boy, 14, graduates from onto the field and landing on a
and the pitches will then be put said the owner of the car had pulled college with associate degree player’s back.
through a four-stage review process the vehicle onto the ramp at the Deer A teen student is being celebrated A video of the game between
before the final plan is chosen. Creek Reservoir in Deer Creek State by a Texas community college after Cibalia and Bijelo Brdo shows
“The Wonderful Innovation Park to take some photos of the car obtaining his associate degree at only Karlo Isasegi, a full back for
Challenge was born out of our mission with the water in the background. 14 years old. Cibalia, being surprised after a
to continually push the boundaries of The photo op went wrong when the Ian Taylor Schlitz started to take teammate’s goal when a parrot
sustainability by embracing bold, inno- unoccupied car rolled down the ramp classes at Tarrant County College’s lands on his back.
The footage shows Isasegi
vative ideas,” said Steve Swartz, vice and into the water. northeast campus in North Richland carefully reaching behind him
president of strategy at The “The owner of the car had gone to Hills at age 12 ,and the school and transferring the yellow
Wonderful Co. “This competition will the ramp at the State Park boat ramp announced he now has obtained his Alexandrine parrot to his hand,
provide a select group of winners the to take pictures of his car,” the search two-year degree. eliciting cheers from the crowd
resources they need to grow their and rescue team said. “So when the car Taylor Schlitz said he drew inspira- of spectators.
business, make a positive impact, and decided to go for a swim the owner tion from one very special classmate - Dominik Bubalo, the bird’s
help us fulfill our environmental mis- was out of the car.” his sister, Haley Taylor Schlitz, 16, owner, said his pet had been
sion.” The team shared photos of the vehi- who obtained her associate degree missing for three days before
cle submerged in the reservoir before from the college and a bachelor’s she turned up at the soccer
Profane parrots removed from being fished out. degree from Texas Woman’s game. The owner and parrot
zoo display for rude language University. were reunited after the game,
which Cibalia ended up losing 3-
A British zoo said five parrots were North Carolina woman The elder sibling now is the 1. C
removed from public display after the finds two-headed snake youngest-ever student to attend
birds spent their time in quarantine inside her home Southern Methodist University's law The mayor of a Romanian
together teaching each other to shout A North Carolina woman said a sur- school. village was re-elected by a land-
profanities. prise appearance by a snake inside her “I learned a lot from watching slide despite a major setback in
The Lincolnshire Wildlife Park said home turned out to be doubly surpris- Haley with her own education,” Ian his campaign - he died about
the five African grey parrots, named ing when she noticed the reptile has Taylor Schlitz said. “When I started to two weeks before the election.
Deveselu Mayor Ion Aliman,
Eric, Jade, Elsie, Tyson and Billy, were two heads. take classes at TCC, Haley would help a Social Democrat, was re-elect-
given to the facility by five different Jeannie Wilson said she was in the me organize my schedule at the start ed to a third term with 64% of
owners in the same week, so the birds sunroom of her Alexander County of the semester. She showed me how the vote in Sunday’s election,
were put into quarantine together home when she spotted a foot-long to manage my time.” which came days after Aliman
before going on display. baby snake slithering around. The younger Taylor Schlitz, who is died of complications from
The time alone gave the parrots Wilson said she was shocked to the founder and CEO of his own com- Covid-19 on September 17.
time to teach one another their notice the reptile was a two-headed pany, Kidlamity Gaming, said he is A video posted online
favorite swear words, park officials snake. pursuing his bachelor’s degree and showed dozens of Aliman’s
said. “I called my son-in-law, who wasn’t deciding whether to pursue a master local supporters holding a can-
The birds were put on public dis- far away, and he said he’d be back,” of business administration degree or dle light vigil at Aliman’s grave
after voting ended. C
play, but soon removed when Wilson told WSOC-TV. “I’m not attend medical school. C