Weird News

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from abcnews via Yahoo

A hero is a sandwich.

Bullshit.

A 7-year-old New York City girl escaped injury after she fell from a third-story window when she was caught by a neighbor.

Cell phone video taken by a resident in the Coney Island section of Brooklyn shows Keyla McCree standing on an air conditioning unit moments before she fell and landed in the bushes. Her dramatic fall was broken by the arms of Steven St. Bernard, who rushed to the scene and caught the girl.

"Please let me catch her, please let me catch her, that's all I could say. Let me catch the little baby, that's all," said St. Bernard.

The 52-year-old bus driver and father of four told ABC News affiliate WABC that he was just in the right place at the right time.

"It feels good now to know that I did something," said St. Bernard, who lives in the apartment complex.

Keyla, who is autistic, managed to perch herself on the air conditioner by pushing through one of the accordion pieces that holds the unit to the window while her mother was in the next room. Moments before she fell, McCree was seen dancing on the air conditioning unit. Police tell WABC they do not believe McCree's parents did anything criminal.

"She did hit the bushes and the ground a little, but not straight on because of his arms," said witness Latasha Marcus.

St. Bernard tore a tendon in his left shoulder and was sporting a sling after the incident. As for Keyla, she's doing just fine thanks to the man who certainly lived up to his name.

"I saw her in the hospital. She doesn't have a scratch on her," said St. Bernard.

This morning, friends and neighbors are calling St. Bernard a hero. "No. A hero is a sandwich. I just saw a kid, that's it," said St. Bernard.

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from AP via Yahoo

MONROE, Wash. (AP) — An animal that appears to be a bobcat has found its way inside a Washington state prison, and state wildlife officers are at the scene trying to remove it.

Lt. Jose Briones (bree-owns) says a staffer spotted the animal at about 2 a.m. Tuesday on the roof of the special offenders unit of the Monroe Corrections Complex. He says the animal must have climbed a fence or pushed in through some gap in the fence.

The prison called state Fish and Wildlife officers, who are trying to remove the animal, possibly with a tranquilizer gun.

Briones says raccoons have been seen outside the fence before but he knows of no other animals breaking inside.

[DanaC]

They were very persuasive :p

[Sundae]

Diz now has a choice.
He is still mostly a house cat.

I didn't realise this made me trendy. I'm off down the discotheque to get my groove on.

[Clodfobble]

Originally Posted by DanaC

Not every cat owner is able to allow their cat to roam free. If I were ever to have a cat I'd be inclined to rear it as a mostly indoors cat. The roads are just too dangerous. And I am in a semi-rural village.

Originally Posted by Sundae

Diz now has a choice.
He is still mostly a house cat.

I didn't realise this made me trendy. I'm off down the discotheque to get my groove on.

You ladies know I was just going for the ironic parallelism there, right?

"He also cautions against trendy food production techniques that let animals roam free. 'The risk of infection could go up,' he said, 'and increase the rate of toxoplasmosis.'"

I don't actually have an opinion on indoor vs. outdoor felines. I was just noting that the rate of toxoplasmosis in humans is almost exclusively due to cat litter boxes, yet this douchebag is trying to blame it on my free-range burger.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Free range cats kill everything in the neighborhood smaller than they are... for fun.

[Sundae]

Originally Posted by Clodfobble

You ladies know I was just going for the ironic parallelism there, right?

Don't worry, I got it
It wasn't an "Ahem, excuse me!" post.
I just wanted to be trendy for once..

Although in Diz's defence he has only ever caught one bird.
And that was after Mia took a swipe at it; confused, it hit the patio windows. Diz lunged for it and carried it upstairs.
He gave it up quite easily and I set it free. It may have died later from shock, but it was unharmed enough to fly away immediately.

When we are out in the garden together (me reading, him dozing) birds will often land on the lawn. What does the mighty hunter do? Start yowling as if another cat has entered his territory. "You tell them Diz" I say, "Make those dirty birdies flt away!" And unsurprisingly, they do.

When my ship comes in I will have a good sized place with room for a cat tree, and empty shelves in optimum places for jumping and watching and dozing in later afternoon sunlight. And he will not go outside again as he has shown no particular pleasure in it. That's my weird news for the day.

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Northern Territory police officers have had a narrow escape from being hen-pecked in a serious case of mistaken identity.

The officers were called to respond to a disturbance at the Humpty Doo Tavern in Darwin's rural area late last night.

When they arrived all was quiet.

But when they checked the nearby Humpty Doo Hotel, they were met by a group of women celebrating a hens' night.

The women mistook the officers for strippers.

Northern watch commander Louise Jorgenson says the police were given a warm welcome by the group of women, some of whom had travelled from Airlie Beach in Queensland for the party.

"The girls were in fine form," she said.

"They were most excited about the police presence.

"There were various shouts about how the strippers had arrived.

"They nearly had their shirts torn off, but they managed to escape with their dignity intact."

Bride-to-be Wendy Haddon says the visit from the police added to the colour of the evening.

"Well, we thought they were going to be the strippers, actually," she said.

"But, no, they weren't. Bugger.

"We sort of had a few photos taken ... had a bit of a play on the car.

"And, yes, they went along with it very well.

"Yep, I think it is going to be very hard to top that, even for the wedding."

No police action is being taken after the incident.

Video at the link. I love the top end.

[orthodoc]

Free range cats also have a life expectancy of two years or less; and they spread Toxo. They've trashed the songbird population in urban areas ...

I have two cats myself, strictly indoor pets. When I bred Siamese/Balinese cats, I only placed them with people who were clearly committed to keeping them indoors.

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My cat, easily 16-18 years old, moved out a few years back. She escaped by dashing through the front door as we were using it and refused to be recaptured. She never left our yard, so I left her alone. When we'd go for walks, she'd follow along at a distance.

Then a neighbor complained. Her complaint was that my cat's fleas were infesting her yard, and biting her while working in it.

I don't suppose it was mosquitoes or sand fleas or chiggers or no-see-ums. Nope, my cat's fleas migrated to the neighbor's lawn.

I protested that my cat never left the yard, how could she be bothering anyone.

To which my neighbor responded by reminding me, none too gently, that our county leash laws apply to cats as well as dogs.

So I had to curtail my cat's outdoor life once again.

Now we live next to a major 4 lane highway, so I wouldn't dream of letting her hang around outside.

At least, it's a nice big two story house, with plenty of room to roam!

[DanaC]

Well, I wasn't sure if there was some sort of hipster trend for indoor cats and lead walking going down over there.

[DanaC]

Good moo-rning: Breakaway cow herd stampedes down street

“When I heard the noise I first thought it was a family member in the house snoring but then I took a look outside,” he added. “The cows only really left hoof prints behind them, not much damage. I know they came for a field about a mile away from here but I’m not sure whose cows they are.
“They came up the alleyway, spent five minutes on the road and then went back again.”

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/good-moo-rn...wn-street.html

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Reminds me of the time Momdigr said "A policeman just went by the window, with his gun out." Like the smart people we are, we went outside to see what was what.

He was chasing/being chased by a humongous semi-feral hog.

He, the hog, just decided to come to town, I guess.

[DanaC]

Belarus police detain student in 'teddy-bear mystery'

Authorities in Belarus have arrested a student as a suspected accomplice in violating the country's borders after he published photos of a mysterious mass landing of teddy bears brandishing protest slogans.

Authorities in the isolated country have denied reports in Swedish media claiming in early July that a small plane crossed the border from Lithuania into Belarus where it air-dropped hundreds of teddy bears on little parachutes holding signs demanding human rights and political freedoms.

Little evidence of the drop surfaced besides one viral video showing a plane pass over what seems to be a provincial town releasing tiny objects and a photo of a bear holding a tiny placard.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/belarus-pol...142807671.html

[Sundae]

Was there a tell-tale trail of teddy bear hair?