Sunday, May 25, 2014
Depressed goat ended hunger strike after being reunited with donkey best friend
Earlier this year, animal welfare officials seized dozens of dogs and three farm animals from the home of a hoarder. The animals were living in squalor and taken to a variety of animal care facilities.
Mr G the goat and Jellybean the donkey were separated for the first time in their lives when they were taken to separate animal sanctuaries in Northern California. Officials at the Animal Place in Grass Valley took in Mr G, but noticed immediately that something was wrong.
Animal Place officials said it didn’t matter what the staff did, the goat refused to eat and just lay in the corner of his stall. They offered him treats like sweet grain and apples – favourite foods for a goat. But that didn’t work. Mr G was given a thorough physical exam and appeared to be completely healthy. After four days, officials said something drastic needed to be done.
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They decided to reunite him with the donkey. It took three days to go get Jellybean and transport him to Grass Valley. When Jellybean finally arrived, as he was being unloaded from the animal trailer, Mr G heard him and immediately leapt to his hooves and ran to the door. Soon the two were reunited. They are now happily sharing a pen, and Mr G is eating again.
Mr G the goat and Jellybean the donkey were separated for the first time in their lives when they were taken to separate animal sanctuaries in Northern California. Officials at the Animal Place in Grass Valley took in Mr G, but noticed immediately that something was wrong.
Animal Place officials said it didn’t matter what the staff did, the goat refused to eat and just lay in the corner of his stall. They offered him treats like sweet grain and apples – favourite foods for a goat. But that didn’t work. Mr G was given a thorough physical exam and appeared to be completely healthy. After four days, officials said something drastic needed to be done.
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They decided to reunite him with the donkey. It took three days to go get Jellybean and transport him to Grass Valley. When Jellybean finally arrived, as he was being unloaded from the animal trailer, Mr G heard him and immediately leapt to his hooves and ran to the door. Soon the two were reunited. They are now happily sharing a pen, and Mr G is eating again.
Driver accused of indecent exposure blamed his lack of trousers on recent Manzilian
A man accused of exposing himself while driving his BMW in Bremerton, Washington, reportedly tried to explain his behaviour to a state trooper by saying a recent wax job had irritated the skin around his genitals forcing him to remove his pants.
Despite his excuse, Kitsap County Prosecutors charged 24-year-old David Foskette with indecent exposure on Thursday.
Court documents alleged Foskette was spotted by at least one witness who said he was exposing himself while driving on Wednesday. When Washington State Patrol Trooper caught up to Foskette outside Burger King in Bremerton, he allegedly was ‘on the other side of the bushes on the east side of the parking lot’ according to court documents. Trooper J. Oxier wrote in the investigative report that when asked what Foskett was doing there he replied that ‘he had to fart and that he didn’t want to do it in his car.’
Court documents say the trooper asked Foskett why there had been reports that he had been exposing himself while driving and the 24-year-old said he ‘had no idea.’ According to Trooper Oxier when asked if he had done anything that could be considered provocative or suggestive, Foskett claimed he had been driving in his underwear because he had a ‘manzillian’ (Brazilian wax for men) and that his jeans were irritating his skin.
The Trooper reported that a blue towel was found laid neatly on the driver’s seat and next to it on the passenger seat was a box of opened condoms. A Kitsap County Deputy interviewed a woman who said she had seen Foskett exposing himself while driving. That witness allegedly said Foskett had passed her in his BMW while touching himself inappropriately and sticking his tongue out of the side of his mouth. Foskett was booked into jail and charged with one count of indecent exposure.
Court documents alleged Foskette was spotted by at least one witness who said he was exposing himself while driving on Wednesday. When Washington State Patrol Trooper caught up to Foskette outside Burger King in Bremerton, he allegedly was ‘on the other side of the bushes on the east side of the parking lot’ according to court documents. Trooper J. Oxier wrote in the investigative report that when asked what Foskett was doing there he replied that ‘he had to fart and that he didn’t want to do it in his car.’
Court documents say the trooper asked Foskett why there had been reports that he had been exposing himself while driving and the 24-year-old said he ‘had no idea.’ According to Trooper Oxier when asked if he had done anything that could be considered provocative or suggestive, Foskett claimed he had been driving in his underwear because he had a ‘manzillian’ (Brazilian wax for men) and that his jeans were irritating his skin.
The Trooper reported that a blue towel was found laid neatly on the driver’s seat and next to it on the passenger seat was a box of opened condoms. A Kitsap County Deputy interviewed a woman who said she had seen Foskett exposing himself while driving. That witness allegedly said Foskett had passed her in his BMW while touching himself inappropriately and sticking his tongue out of the side of his mouth. Foskett was booked into jail and charged with one count of indecent exposure.
Woman tried to steal hermit crab by putting it in her pocket
The attempted theft of a hermit crab from a pet shop in the Balgowlah suburb of Sydney, Australia, was nipped in the bud when a member of staff saw a woman, 41, acting suspiciously.
The employee saw the woman walk around the aisles and approach the hermit crab aquarium. The Balgowlah woman then allegedly removed one hermit crab valued at $17 and put it in her pocket.
She selected two other items and proceeded to the cash register to pay for them. During this time, the woman was invited to sign a membership form, on which she wrote her name and address. The staff member asked the woman if she was going to pay for the crab in her pocket.
The woman quickly handed over the hermit crab and ran away. Using the membership form the woman had helpfully filled in, the police had no trouble tracing her. The pet store staff did not want the woman charged but she has been banned from returning to the store.
The employee saw the woman walk around the aisles and approach the hermit crab aquarium. The Balgowlah woman then allegedly removed one hermit crab valued at $17 and put it in her pocket.
She selected two other items and proceeded to the cash register to pay for them. During this time, the woman was invited to sign a membership form, on which she wrote her name and address. The staff member asked the woman if she was going to pay for the crab in her pocket.
The woman quickly handed over the hermit crab and ran away. Using the membership form the woman had helpfully filled in, the police had no trouble tracing her. The pet store staff did not want the woman charged but she has been banned from returning to the store.
Spanish woman bitten on the bottom by snake lurking in her toilet
Spanish hairdresser Iris Castroverde, 30, ended up in hospital after she was bitten on the backside by a bright green and yellow snake when she went to have a pee in her bathroom. The mother-of-two Iris said: "I had just been talking to my husband on Skype. I was on my own with the children because he's away working in the Netherlands. After we finished talking I wanted to use the bathroom before watching a film on television. She said that she had just sat down on the toilet when she heard a strange noise coming from the pipes in the wall at her home in the town of Naron, in north-western Spain.
She said: "I could hear something behind the wall and I was trying to work out what it might be as I hadn't heard it before. After that everything happened really quickly, I became aware that there was something moving in the toilet bowl, then I heard a splash and then an intense pain on my backside. I stood up with the snake still hanging onto my backside but then it dropped back into the water, and disappeared back up the pipes from where it had come." Mrs Castroverde grabbed two bottles of bleach and put them down the toilet and said she was pretty certain that the snake had gone by then.
She said: "I flushed the toilet to send the bleach after it but I don't know if I got it. I guess the snake was about 30 centimetres long, and once I poured the bleach down the toilet I realised it was probably poisonous because my backside started to go numb." She said she had then called an ambulance and arranged for her husband's parents to come and look after the kids while she was taken to hospital in an ambulance where she was given several injections to counter the venom from the snake. A hospital spokesman said: "We found four incisor marks in the buttock near the perineal area, and we followed standard practice for snake bites which includes a tetanus and rabies shot as well as administering an antidote.
"We had to remove the poison from the wound but some of it had spread into the body and we needed to give her an injection to counter that." Police and firemen closed the block of flats where Iris lived and searched for a sign of the snake but after finding nothing allowed locals back, including kids from a kindergarten on the ground floor of the building. Iris added: "I still feel really ill from the snake bite and the injections I got at the hospital. By the time I had arrived at the hospital I couldn't move my leg at all. I was back at work after 24 hours though because there so much to do, and in any case I can't sit down at the moment."
She said: "I could hear something behind the wall and I was trying to work out what it might be as I hadn't heard it before. After that everything happened really quickly, I became aware that there was something moving in the toilet bowl, then I heard a splash and then an intense pain on my backside. I stood up with the snake still hanging onto my backside but then it dropped back into the water, and disappeared back up the pipes from where it had come." Mrs Castroverde grabbed two bottles of bleach and put them down the toilet and said she was pretty certain that the snake had gone by then.
She said: "I flushed the toilet to send the bleach after it but I don't know if I got it. I guess the snake was about 30 centimetres long, and once I poured the bleach down the toilet I realised it was probably poisonous because my backside started to go numb." She said she had then called an ambulance and arranged for her husband's parents to come and look after the kids while she was taken to hospital in an ambulance where she was given several injections to counter the venom from the snake. A hospital spokesman said: "We found four incisor marks in the buttock near the perineal area, and we followed standard practice for snake bites which includes a tetanus and rabies shot as well as administering an antidote.
"We had to remove the poison from the wound but some of it had spread into the body and we needed to give her an injection to counter that." Police and firemen closed the block of flats where Iris lived and searched for a sign of the snake but after finding nothing allowed locals back, including kids from a kindergarten on the ground floor of the building. Iris added: "I still feel really ill from the snake bite and the injections I got at the hospital. By the time I had arrived at the hospital I couldn't move my leg at all. I was back at work after 24 hours though because there so much to do, and in any case I can't sit down at the moment."
Italy to boost its economy by including illegal drug sales and prostitution in its GDP
Italy's statistics agency have said estimated revenues from drug trafficking and the sex trade will be used to calculate gross domestic product (GDP) starting next year in a move expected to boost its economic results.
The Istat agency said the calculation would also include revenues from contraband tobacco and alcohol, adding that the procedure would be "very difficult for the obvious reason that these illegal activities are not reported".
"The concept of what is illegal activity is also open to different interpretations," Istat said in a statement explaining that the new method of calculation in accordance with new European Union rules. The Bank of Italy in 2012 estimated the value of the criminal economy at 10.9 percent of GDP.
Theoretically, that could mean Italy's GDP result coming in far higher than the government's 1.3 percent growth estimate. The "grey economy" of businesses that do not pay taxes is already calculated in Italy's GDP and was estimated to be worth between 16.3 percent and 17.5 percent of the economy in 2008 - the last year for which the calculation was made.
The Istat agency said the calculation would also include revenues from contraband tobacco and alcohol, adding that the procedure would be "very difficult for the obvious reason that these illegal activities are not reported".
"The concept of what is illegal activity is also open to different interpretations," Istat said in a statement explaining that the new method of calculation in accordance with new European Union rules. The Bank of Italy in 2012 estimated the value of the criminal economy at 10.9 percent of GDP.
Theoretically, that could mean Italy's GDP result coming in far higher than the government's 1.3 percent growth estimate. The "grey economy" of businesses that do not pay taxes is already calculated in Italy's GDP and was estimated to be worth between 16.3 percent and 17.5 percent of the economy in 2008 - the last year for which the calculation was made.
Mayor of French village castrated and killed by jealous husband
A tiny French village in Normandy is in shock after the mayor was castrated and killed by a bitter love rival, who accused the elected official of having an affair with his wife.
Dominique Leboucher, aged 55, the mayor of the village of Bretteville-le-Rabet in the department of Calvados was mortally wounded and castrated on Thursday night by a bitter love rival, who then committed suicide. The prosecutor said the mayor was apparently castrated after being murdered.
The crime sparked horror in the tiny village, but some questioned whether jealousy was to blame. "I do not believe this thing about infidelity at all," said Yannick Guesnon, one of the mayor's deputies, adding that the attack appeared to be "an act of madness." Albert Gibot, a pensioner in the village, said the attacker had "blown a fuse as his partner used to attend meetings of the local council in the evenings."
According to him, the councillor and the alleged murderer were not married but were the parents of two little girls. The local gendarmerie has opened a murder investigation. The commune of Bretteville-le Rabet stands around 15 km from the city of Caen and is home to around 250 residents. The mayor, who worked in insurance sales first became a councillor in 2001, before taking up the post of deputy mayor in 2008. He was elected mayor in March's municipal elections.
Dominique Leboucher, aged 55, the mayor of the village of Bretteville-le-Rabet in the department of Calvados was mortally wounded and castrated on Thursday night by a bitter love rival, who then committed suicide. The prosecutor said the mayor was apparently castrated after being murdered.
The crime sparked horror in the tiny village, but some questioned whether jealousy was to blame. "I do not believe this thing about infidelity at all," said Yannick Guesnon, one of the mayor's deputies, adding that the attack appeared to be "an act of madness." Albert Gibot, a pensioner in the village, said the attacker had "blown a fuse as his partner used to attend meetings of the local council in the evenings."
According to him, the councillor and the alleged murderer were not married but were the parents of two little girls. The local gendarmerie has opened a murder investigation. The commune of Bretteville-le Rabet stands around 15 km from the city of Caen and is home to around 250 residents. The mayor, who worked in insurance sales first became a councillor in 2001, before taking up the post of deputy mayor in 2008. He was elected mayor in March's municipal elections.
Lifeboat crew used lasso to stop runaway speedboat
A lifeboat crew stopped an out-of-control speedboat by lassoing it. The six-metre vessel went into a spin when its skipper, Peter Channing, 66, was trying to moor up and accidentally knocked the throttle.
He was thrown overboard and had taken off his kill chord - a safety device attached to his leg that should have pulled out the ignition key when he fell in the water - so the boat began to circle. Onlookers at Teignmouth Quay in Devon pulled Mr Channing to safety, but the boat was circling the bay and crashing into other vessels.
An RNLI lifeboat arrived on the scene, and the helmsman, Giles Squirrel, pulled up as close as possible while crewmen Adam Truhol and Jim Cassidy stood ready. The crew lassoed the speedboat at the first attempt before pulling it towards them and cutting the engine. Mr Channing, of Teignmouth, was unhurt but his boat was written off.
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He said: “I briefly took off the kill chord and the engine suddenly sprang into life and I was over the side. My buoyancy jacket, which I always wear, inflated and I was drifting in the river. I thought my boat was going to the beach, but suddenly it reared up and started coming back towards me, bouncing off other boats. Luckily it missed me. I managed to get close to the shore when someone threw me a line to pull me in. Nobody was hurt and I suppose I can smile a bit about it now, but I will be more careful in future.”
He was thrown overboard and had taken off his kill chord - a safety device attached to his leg that should have pulled out the ignition key when he fell in the water - so the boat began to circle. Onlookers at Teignmouth Quay in Devon pulled Mr Channing to safety, but the boat was circling the bay and crashing into other vessels.
An RNLI lifeboat arrived on the scene, and the helmsman, Giles Squirrel, pulled up as close as possible while crewmen Adam Truhol and Jim Cassidy stood ready. The crew lassoed the speedboat at the first attempt before pulling it towards them and cutting the engine. Mr Channing, of Teignmouth, was unhurt but his boat was written off.
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He said: “I briefly took off the kill chord and the engine suddenly sprang into life and I was over the side. My buoyancy jacket, which I always wear, inflated and I was drifting in the river. I thought my boat was going to the beach, but suddenly it reared up and started coming back towards me, bouncing off other boats. Luckily it missed me. I managed to get close to the shore when someone threw me a line to pull me in. Nobody was hurt and I suppose I can smile a bit about it now, but I will be more careful in future.”
Flying sponge cake in face at garden open day taken with a pinch of salt
A female visitor got more than she bargained for at garden party in Wells, Somerset last Sunday.
The unsuspecting visitor at Stoberry House garden open day was hit in the face by a piece of Victoria sponge which had been catapulted through the air after a gust of wind flipped over a paper plate.
Stoberry House and Garden owner, Frances Young, said that the woman took the incident with a pinch of salt and saw the funny side.
Frances said: “It was so windy and this piece of sponge cake just flew into this woman’s face – luckily she was okay about it. At least it wasn’t chocolate ganache.”
The unsuspecting visitor at Stoberry House garden open day was hit in the face by a piece of Victoria sponge which had been catapulted through the air after a gust of wind flipped over a paper plate.
Stoberry House and Garden owner, Frances Young, said that the woman took the incident with a pinch of salt and saw the funny side.
Frances said: “It was so windy and this piece of sponge cake just flew into this woman’s face – luckily she was okay about it. At least it wasn’t chocolate ganache.”
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