Weird News of the World Thread - Part 1

[squeekness]

Sounds like a sucky way to go.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Family Flees 6,000 Deadly Spiders "Bleeding Out of the Walls" of Home

Spiders falling from the ceiling. Spiders behind every mini blind. Spiders in the fireplace. Spiders "bleeding out of the walls." A family in Missouri finally had enough of this nightmare and vacated the home they were sharing with 6,000 brown recluse spiders—but will the spiders ever leave?

Brian and Susan Trost bought the Weldon Spring hell house in 2007, completely unaware of the abundant, venomous creepy crawlies who, they say, had already set up shop.

In a lawsuit against the home's former owners—who the Trosts claim failed to disclose the spider problem, as well as several other (I'm assuming) non-Satan related issues—Susan claimed she didn't notice the spiders or their webs on the walk-through date. It wasn't until her first day as owner that she realized, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, "a large, stringy web wrapped around one of the light fixtures."

From there, she pieced together the the reality of her spider hell slowly: a spider behind some loose wallpaper here, a spider in the basement there. From the Post-Dispatch:

In the following days, she saw spiders and their webs every day. They were in the mini blinds, the air registers, the pantry ceiling, the fireplace. Their exoskeletons were falling from the can lights. Once when she was showering, she dodged a spider as it fell from the ceiling and washed down the drain.

"It was shortly after we moved in they started bleeding out of the walls," Susan told KMOV. A professor at the University of Kansas estimated that, during the less-active winter months, there were between 4,500 and 6,000 of them.

After numerous, failed experiences with pest control companies, and denied claims from their insurance company—an ongoing battle, reports the Post-Dispatch—the Trosts eventually surrendered their home to the spiders.

The home, now owned by Fannie Mae (and, clearly, the spiders), is being tented and fumigated this week. The sulfuryl fluoride gas is expected to kill both the spiders and their eggs.

Tim McCarthy, president of McCarthy Pest Control, told the Post-Dispatch, "There'll be nothing alive in there after this."

Be careful what you wish for, Tim.

http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/...cle_02e0dcb3-a772-5c47-84ce-ede4e21df346.html

**** that, those brown recluse spiders are no joke

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Stink Bug Triggers False Code Red Air Quality Alert in Charlotte, N.C.

A stink bug triggered a false code red air quality alert in Charlotte, North Carolina yesterday after it landed on a sensor that monitors the city's air quality.

The North Carolina Department of Environmental and Natural Resources sent out a Tweet this morning with a photo of a stink bug sitting on the sensor, complete with a perfect caption:

10/8 Code Red for particle pollution in Charlotte caused by 1 large particle: a stinkbug on the air monitor.

To be clear, the stink bug stank didn't cause the code red reading (though they can funk-up the air quality in your house). Air monitors measure the amount of fine particles (such as vehicle exhaust and smoke from fires) and coarse particles (dust) floating around in the air. High levels of particulates in the air can cause health problems when inhaled, especially in people with asthma and others who are considered at-risk.

As the sensor measures particulates that are less than ten micrometers in diameter, the stink bug (length = 12,700 micrometers) was more than enough to trigger a false alarm for particle pollution.

The air quality index (AQI) runs on a six-category scale ranging from "Good" to "Hazardous." Today's AQI in and around Charlotte is "Good."

https://***********/NCDENR/status/520207159582547968

That is hilarious

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

First Shipment of Weed-Laced Sodas Explodes off the Shelves

A marijuana-laced soda sold legally in Washington State has turned out to be extremely dangerous. Not because of the totally reasonable 10mg of THC in each bottle, but because the sodas have been randomly exploding on store shelves.

Employees of a Bellingham pot shop say that one day after receiving their first shipment of Mirth Provisions' pot-infused pomegranate soda—cleverly branded "Legal"—they came in to find broken glass everywhere, Seattle's KOMO News reported.

They quarantined the soda inside a steel container, where bottles would periodically explode for the next 10 days.

"It sounded like a shotgun going off," Top Shelf Cannabis manager Zach Henifin told KOMO, "You can actually feel it, it was that explosive."

The problem was too much yeast. Although the pressure inside the bottles was acceptable when they were shipped, the carbon dioxide buildup over a period of days eventually overwhelmed the glass. Two Vancouver, BC, shops told KOMO they'd had the same problem.

Why didn't Top Shelf just destroy the rest of the bottles instead of building a tremendously loud "bomb box"? Well, Washington's Liquor Control Board requires the manufacturer to dispose of any marijuana products, and Mirth Provisions—located more than 3 hours away from the shop—didn't send someone to pick them up until 9 days later.

And when bottles of the soda started blowing up while they were being loaded into the driver's van, he bailed, abandoning the rest of the shipment. As of Tuesday, almost every one of the 330 bottles had popped.

"Sometimes when you're creating new products in a new marketplace, there's a little bit of a learning curve," Mirth founder Adam Stites shrugged. He's sending someone for the rest of the bottles this week, and waiting for the Liquor Control Board's ruling on what to do with them.

http://www.komonews.com/news/local/...na-shops-278467461.html?tab=gallery&c=y&img=0

Haha a bit of a learning curve eh? If there is one thing America knows how to do it is make soda. Seems like any YouTube tutorial would have told them how to avoid this problem

 

[KevanG]

Family Flees 6,000 Deadly Spiders "Bleeding Out of the Walls" of Home

http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/...cle_02e0dcb3-a772-5c47-84ce-ede4e21df346.html

**** that, those brown recluse spiders are no joke

Yeah...

I'd say burn it down but with such an evil house it may only make it worse.

 

[Teelie]

Then there would be flaming spiders to contend with.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

You're Not Smoking Weed Unless You're Using This Glass Nightmare Mask

At some point, the world's pot smokers lost touch with life's simpler pleasures: a nicely rolled spliff, or a toke from a bowl, or a one-hitter disguised as a cigarette. The impulse toward ever-more complex smoking implements has surely reached its apex with this, the "Mask of Moldauthein."

Cool name. But what is it? Allow this insane trailer to illustrate:

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The device, crafted by glassblower Etai Rahmil, is specifically made for smoking dabs, ANIMAL New York reports. It costs $6500, and if the, uh, Mask of Moldauthein isn't to your liking, there are other, equally ridiculous versions, too.

http://animalnewyork.com/2014/smoking-weed-just-got-really-weird-handblown-dab-masks/

Haha that is awesome and insane at the same time. Go home pot heads, you're too high t:

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Woman Finds Three-Inch Leech Living Inside Her Nose

A Scottish woman thought her nosebleeds were caused by a motorbike accident. She was horrifyingly wrong.

Twenty-four-year-old Daniela Liverani was backpacking through Vietnam when the nosebleeds began, but she told the Daily Record she figured it was just a burst blood vessel from falling off a motorbike.

Eventually the nosebleeds stopped, but the leech remained. Liverani—who initially thought the leech was congealed blood—eventually figured out there was a blood-sucking worm camping out in her face.

"When I was in the shower, he would come right out as far as my bottom lip and I could see him sticking out the bottom of my nose," Liverani said. "So when that happened last Thursday, I jumped out of the shower to look really closely in the mirror and I saw ridges on him. That's when I realised he was an animal."

Liverani said her doctors said the three-inch leech—which lived in her nose for at least a month—would eventually have wormed its way through her brain.

A leech expert then gave an equally horrifying interview to the Record:



"Daniela could have picked up this leech from water in Vietnam, if she had been swimming.

"Or it could have gone in through her mouth, as she was drinking water.

"Even though it was there for around a month, these leeches don't grow all that quickly, so it wouldn't have been much smaller when it went up there. It would have been quite sizeable.

"It's interesting that people don't feel these leeches go up their nose."

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/creepy-crawlie-horror-backpacker-brings-back-4423870

And this is why I will never go to Vietnam

 

[Anubis]

ewwww.

 

[KevanG]

And the big issue is that it could have gone to her brain.

A leech sucking blood out of your brain. Now that's ****ing scary.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Cops Charge 10-Year-Old Boy as Adult in Slaying of 90-Year-Old Woman

Police claim a 10-year-old boy confessed to murdering a 90-year-old woman near Scranton, Pa. Saturday. But because Pennsylvania law doesn't allow for juveniles to be charged with homicide, authorities have charged the boy as an adult.

On Saturday, the boy, Tristen Kurilla, visited his grandfather, Anthony Virbitsky, who lived with the victim, Helen Novak, working as her caretaker.

From the Scranton Times-Tribune:

While visiting Virbitsky, of 349 Sky Lake Road, Tristen went into Novak's room around 10 a.m. to ask a question. Tristen told police Novak yelled at him to leave the room.

Tristen, "very mad" at Novak's response, left the room and grabbed a wooden cane, police said. The boy told police Novak was sitting upright at the end of her bed when he came behind her, hooked the cane around her throat and pulled back.

…

Tristen said he pushed the cane into Novak's throat for four to five seconds. He took the cane off her throat then punched her five times in the throat and five times in the stomach.

"I killed that lady," Tristen reportedly told police."I was only trying to hurt her."

According to the Times-Tribune, Wayne County District Attorney Janine Edwards said that Tristen was charged as an adult because juveniles aren't allowed to be charged with homicide in Pennsylvania. The 10-year-old also faces aggravated assault charges as an adult. Tristen's mother said the boy "had a history of 'mental difficulties.'"

Tristen is being held in Wayne County Prison without bail. He's due in court on October 22, when he can petition to have his case moved to juvenile court.

http://www.mcall.com/news/nationworld/mc-pa-boy-charged-with-homicide-1014-20141014-story.html

Sad his young life is now ruined, too bad he wasn't able to get the help he obviously needed before he did this

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Thirsty, Thirsty Polar Bear Breaks Into Home, Chugs Seal Oil

A polar bear in Kaktovik, Alaska was caught rummaging in a homeowner's barrel of seal oil on Friday. The large bear was shooed away by a roving polar bear patrol crew. Hold up—what? Tell us more about that polar bear patrol part.

The town of 300 has a staff of part-time members who make sure to keep those enormous bears (with transparent fur!) in check. No pesky bears drinking up all the oil.

In this case, part-time polar bear patrol staffer Ruby Kaleak was called in to solve the problem. Via the Alaska Dispatch-News:

"We parked and looked all over for bears," Kaleak said. "I myself was about to jump out of the truck and go check inside the arctic entryway."

Just then, she saw a shadow. From inside the entryway, the head of a polar bear popped up. Its body filled the doorframe.

"I was shocked. It was humongous," Kaleak said. "Just the neck and head was half the size of me, and I'm 5 (feet) 2 (inches )."

The 81-year-old homeowner, Betty Brower, called to report the bear while she hid under a large window. Kaleak and her hero coworker were able to shoo the bear off, but not before the bear tried to get back in the house.

http://www.adn.com/article/20141013/polar-bear-patrol-kaktovik-big-bear-makes-tense-moment

I'm glad I don't have to worry about any surprise polar bear visits here in FL

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Doctors Say Google Glass Caused Worse Withdrawal Symptoms Than Alcohol

Google Glass has a habit of changing people. Not only does it turn wearers into hysterical ***holes, American doctors say Glass caused one man to become an addict.

According to The Guardian, scientists believe a navy serviceman is the first-ever patient to suffer from Glass-triggered internet addiction disorder:

The man had been using the technology for around 18 hours a day – removing it only to sleep and wash – and complained of feeling irritable and argumentative without the device. In the two months since he bought the device, he had also begun experiencing his dreams as if viewed through the device's small grey window.

The 31-year-old serviceman originally checked himself in for alcohol abuse. But doctors found that his face computing habit was harder to break.

Doctors noticed the patient repeatedly tapped his right temple with his index finger. He said the movement was an involuntary mimic of the motion regularly used to switch on the heads-up display on his Google Glass.

He said he was "going through withdrawal from his Google Glass", Doan explained, adding: "He said the Google Glass withdrawal was greater than the alcohol withdrawal he was experiencing."

His doctors say the "rush" Glass gives users is to blame. It turns out that strapping a screen right in front of your eyeball can be risky if you have a "predisposition for addiction."

http://www.theguardian.com/science/...ss-user-treated-addiction-withdrawal-symptoms

People and technology

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Heartless Couple Sells Home, Throws in Son's Cat for an Extra $140,000

An Australian couple selling their multi-million-dollar home had a tough decision to make when the buyer refused to close the deal unless he could also have their cat, Tiffany. The Perceval family agreed to the proposal in exchange for an extra $140,000, news.com.au reported. They don't seem to have any regrets.

The exchange started as a joke, after the potential buyer's child "fell in love" with Tiffany during a walkthrough of the house. Fran Perceval said the family would be willing to sell the cat, who she described as "ornamental," because Tiffany already "believes the house is her property."

The man bidding on their 5-bedroom, $2.2 million house decided to take her seriously.

"The buyer wouldn't sign the contract unless he got the cat, so as far as I'm concerned, he can have the cat," said the family's real-estate agent, who was not required to give up any beloved pets as part of the deal.

The Percevals are still working things out with their 19-year-old son, Sam, who bought Tiffany at a pet shop. "She was ... the last of the litter, and he felt sorry for her," Fran told news.com.au.

"We're thinking we'll put $20,000 in a pile next to the cat and say to Sam: you choose," said the mom, who seemed delighted as she told reporters Tiffany is "the most expensive cat in Australia."

Sure, Tiffany will continue living in a familiar house and have a new family to take care of her, but laughing about the sweet deal you got for your son's cherished pet just seems like rubbing it in.

The Percevals say they're considering adopting a new cat after they move. They also have two dogs, two rabbits, and fish. They haven't said how much money they would accept in exchange for those pets.

http://www.news.com.au/national/vic...no-kitten-around/story-fnii5sms-1227089364137

Not going to lie, I'd sell the stupid cat in a heartbeat

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

New York Rats Are the Best Rats (at Having Germs New to Science)

It's not even Wednesday and the surprises keep coming: New York City rats, when tested by pathogen hunters at Columbia University, were discovered to be replete with dozens of disgusting pathogens, some of which were new to science entirely.

Researchers tested 133 Manhattan rats, all of which were incredibly difficult to bait as they are "wilier" than rats of other locales, and the results are just as you'd expect: Germs. ****ing germs everywhere.

I saw a rat eat a pile of black slop-trash once.

Via the New York Times:

Once the scientists caught the rats, they took samples of blood, urine, feces and tissues from a number of organs. After extracting DNA from the samples, they sifted through the gene fragments.

First, the scientists looked for disease agents previously found in rats. They discovered bacteria that caused food poisoning, such as Salmonella and a strain of E. coli known to cause terrible diarrhea. They also found pathogens that caused fevers, such as Seoul hantavirus and Leptospira.

One of the germs that the researchers didn't find, however, was Yersinia pestis, the cause for Bubonic plague. We're all good on that front. Stand down.

The president of EcoHealth Alliance, Peter Daszak said of the new study, "This is a recipe for a public health nightmare." The rats that were studied had 18 different species of viruses that were connected to human diseases, and some of the pathogens found in the rats had never been seen before in New York.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/14/science/rats-and-their-alarming-bugs.html

Between the rats and the NYPD I'm very glad I don't live there

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Facebook and Apple Offer Egg-Freezing Perk So Women Never Stop Working

Tech corporations have perfected the science of the employee perk: a lavish amenity designed to keep workers in the office and fixated on the job. The recent announcement that Facebook and Apple will pay for female employees to freeze their eggs is perhaps the most fascinating example of what's behind America's unbalanced work-is-life mindset.

According to NBC News, these companies "appear to be the first major employers to offer this coverage for non-medical reasons." It's both a predictable indicator of future burnout and a welcome sign of progress that tech companies are finally tailoring benefits to support female employees, rather than squandering money on frivolous and bro-y perks like, say, a mixed martial arts cage fighting ring.

The perk enforces Silicon Valley's obsessive work mentality and gender progress—so, in this case, women can have it all! Perhaps Facebook and Apple will even pressure other corporations to follow suit.

Unlike unlimited vacation days, which go unused to the point where Mastercard built an ad campaign around it, I imagine most working women would exercise this option in a heartbeat because of the huge financial and personal cost of continuing to hustle, crush it, and shut up in their careers while biologically constrained. This subsidizes the cost of choosing when to prioritize having children.

NBC reports:

When successful, egg freezing allows women to put their fertility on ice, so to speak, until they're ready to become parents. But the procedure comes at a steep price: Costs typically add up to at least $10,000 for every round, plus $500 or more annually for storage.

With notoriously male-dominated Silicon Valley firms competing to attract top female talent, the coverage may give Apple and Facebook a leg up among the many women who devote key childbearing years to building careers. Covering egg freezing can be viewed as a type of "payback" for women's commitment, said Philip Chenette, a fertility specialist in San Francisco.

Ah, there's the word. Commitment. Author Kate Losse examined that concept in a review of Sheryl Sandberg's instruction manual for getting ahead:

Ah, there's the word. Commitment. Author Kate Losse examined that concept in a review of Sheryl Sandberg's instruction manual for getting ahead:

The fact that Lean In is really waging a battle for work and against unmonetized life is the reason pregnancy, or the state of reproducing life, looms as the corporate Battle of Normandy in Lean In. Pregnancy, by virtue of the body's physical focus on human reproduction, is humanity's last, biological stand against the corporate demand for workers' continuous labor. For Sandberg, pregnancy must be converted into a corporate opportunity: a moment to convince a woman to commit further to her job. Human life as a competitor to work is the threat here, and it must be captured for corporate use, much in the way that Facebook treats users' personal activities as a series of opportunities to fill out the Facebook-owned social graph.

By arguing that women should express their feminism by remaining in the workplace at all costs, Sandberg encourages women to maintain a commitment to the workplace without encouraging the workplace to maintain a commitment to them.

These issues are not unique to Facebook or even Silicon Valley. Corporations accountable to shareholders do not act in ways that will ultimately hurt their financial interests. As NBC notes:

News of the firms' egg-freezing coverage comes in the midst of what's been described as a Silicon Valley "perks arms race." It's only the latest in a generous list of family and wellness-oriented health benefits from Apple and Facebook (whose COO, of course, is feminist change agent and "Lean In" author Sheryl Sandberg). Both companies offer benefits for fertility treatment and adoption. Facebook famously gives new parents $4,000 in so-called "baby cash" to use however they'd like.

It's too soon to tell whether female employees will feel pressured to freeze their eggs rather than take time out to have children, just like everyone feels pressured to always be on call to the office, always check email, always have a smartphone in hand. The choice is yours to decide whether or not to take those vacation days, except sometimes that choice feels like an illusion and this decision might be the hardest one working women have to make.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/perk-facebook-apple-now-pay-women-freeze-eggs-n225011

Seems like a rather bizarre perk

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Parrot Disappears for Four Years, Returns Home Fluent in Spanish

A parrot with a "cultivated British accent" that went missing for four years returned home to California last week, apparently speaking Spanish and asking for a guy named Larry.

The parrot disappeared from his Southern California home without a trace in 2010— finally turning up in a dog groomer's backyard earlier this month. A veterinarian tried to trace the bird's microchip, but found it was unregistered.

Eventually by tracking down the bird's sales papers, they were able to identify the owner, who happened to live nearby.

The parrot reportedly came back from its semester abroad with a little bit of an attitude problem, refusing to speak English and at one point literally biting the hand that feeds him.

The vet told the Daily Breeze that's normal and the parrot will eventually start sucking up again in order to get food.

No one knows who Larry is.

http://www.dailybreeze.com/lifestyl...-missing-for-4-years-found-now-speaks-spanish

Wonder where he got off to?

 

[Teelie]

Heartless Couple Sells Home, Throws in Son's Cat for an Extra $140,000

Spoiler

http://www.news.com.au/national/vic...no-kitten-around/story-fnii5sms-1227089364137

Not going to lie, I'd sell the stupid cat in a heartbeat

I don't think I could sell a beloved pet like that. From the sound of this the family is not exactly hurting for money either.

Facebook and Apple Offer Egg-Freezing Perk So Women Never Stop Working

Spoiler

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/perk-facebook-apple-now-pay-women-freeze-eggs-n225011

Seems like a rather bizarre perk

This I suspect will wind up in one of Cracked's "news that's not true" articles in the coming weeks. It sounds too bizarre and specific, not to mention sexist to be true.

Parrot Disappears for Four Years, Returns Home Fluent in Spanish

Spoiler

http://www.dailybreeze.com/lifestyl...-missing-for-4-years-found-now-speaks-spanish

Wonder where he got off to?

Crazy story. At least he came back otherwise healthy, even if his attitude is poor.

 

[Anubis]

And the big issue is that it could have gone to her brain.

A leech sucking blood out of your brain. Now that's ****ing scary.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Couple Making Love in the Sea Hospitalized After Getting Stuck Together

A couple having sex in the ocean off the Italian coast earlier this week reportedly became stuck together—"due to suction," according to the Local—and required a trip to the emergency room to be separated.

The couple somehow became locked together mid-sex off a mostly empty beach at Porto San Giorgio, according to Il Mattino. After briefly panicking, the couple fought their way back to shore and flagged down a woman, who passed them a towel.

A doctor was called to the beach but the job proved too tough, and the couple was taken to a local hospital. There, the woman was given "an injection commonly used to dilate the uterus of pregnant women," as Il Mattino put it, and the couple was finally free to go their separate ways.

http://www.thelocal.it/20141015/italian-couple-get-stuck-in-frolic-at-sea

That's one to tell the grandkids

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

South Korea Pop Concert Disaster: 16 Dead After Falling Through Grate

Sixteen people fell 65 feet to their deaths at an outdoor pop concert in Seongnam, South Korea today after the ventilation grate they were standing on collapsed. According to the Associated Press, 11 more people are seriously injured. Concertgoers were watching 4minute, a K-pop girl group, when the grate collapsed.

The victims haven't yet been identified, but the 700-person crowd was primarily made up of young women. The AP notes that the 4minute girls continued to dance for a while "in front of a crowd that appeared to be unaware of the accident." One eyewitness told YTN TV, "There was a sudden, loud screaming, and when I turned it looked as if people were being sucked down into a hole."

A fire official told South Korea's Yonhap news agency, "Twelve people were killed at the scene, two others were killed while they were being rushed to the hospital. Others are assumed to have passed away while receiving medical treatment." Officials believe 20-30 people were standing on the grate.

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/14-feared-dead-accident-south-korean-concert-26265558

Well that sucks

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

This Is a Truly Horrifying Story About a Spider

An Australian man rather understandably says his trip to Bali was "ruined" when he had a horrifying run-in with a disturbingly determined spider.

Twenty-one-year-old Dylan Thomas's horror story trip began while he was sleeping one night at his hotel: that's when a tropical spider climbed into his bed, burrowed through his appendix scar, crawled under his skin and tunneled into his sternum.

An initial visit to a doctor on Sunday saw him diagnosed as having been bitten by an insect and sent away with antihistamines.

Mr Thomas spent another day with the insect tunneling inside of him before going to a hospital.

"Well after running tests and putting things inside my stomach they finally found out it was a tropical spider that's been living inside of me for the last 3 days, managed to get it out luckily," he told his Facebook friends.

The spider was eventually removed with tweezers. It was dead when pulled out.

Thomas says his friends now call him Spiderman, which is a pretty cool nickname even if you do never have another full night's sleep undisturbed by vivid nightmares again.

http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/wa-...led-through-wa-mans-body-20141016-1171lq.html

I would sleep in an airtight sleeping bag from now on if that happened to me

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Furious Camel Bites American to Death in Mexico Over Can of Coca-Cola

A camel that bit, kicked, and smothered an American to death at a wildlife park in Mexico was reportedly upset that it hadn't yet received its daily Coca-Cola.

Richard Mileski, who was either 60 or 70 years old, depending on who you ask, died on Monday at the Tulum Monkey Jungle, which he owned. Tulum Civil Defense official Alberto Canto spoke to the Associated Press about the tragic camel attack:

"The camel kicked and bit him practically to death, and when he was almost dead, he sat on him," said Canto. "Between the blows and the weight of the camel on top of him, he was asphyxiated."

While it was unclear why the animal, which was in a kind of enclosure, attacked Mileski, Canto said some versions suggest the camel was upset at not getting a soft drink.

"One version is that he would always give him a Coca-Cola to drink, and apparently, that day he didn't give him the Coca-Cola," Canto said, adding, "there are a lot of versions."

The camel, still apparently furious over the Coca-Cola, had to be pulled off of Mileski's dead body with a rope tied to a truck. Authorities seized the camel, along with 13 spider monkeys, two emus, six deer, two llamas and a wild boar, and are holding them at the park pending an investigation by Mexico's Attorney General's office for Environmental Protection.

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/2f7b...996/us-man-killed-camel-mexican-wildlife-park

You can't make this stuff up people

 

[Breogan]

Parrot Disappears for Four Years, Returns Home Fluent in Spanish

http://www.dailybreeze.com/lifestyl...-missing-for-4-years-found-now-speaks-spanish

Wonder where he got off to?

To pickup fluent spanish in Cali. was probably never more than a few blocks down.

 

[Monsieur Xavier]

Heartless Couple Sells Home, Throws in Son's Cat for an Extra $140,000

Stupid rich kid and their yes-to-everthing-he-ask parents, the cat's owners aren't better.
Shameful.