Friday, August 22, 2014
Snake slithered into woman's home and ate three of her canaries
A 4-foot long Kingsnake slithered into a woman's home and ate three canaries that were in a cage on Tuesday morning.
Teresa Olivas, from Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma, said she often checks for snakes outside but never expected to wake up and see one in her birdcage.
She says she thinks it entered through an open window, a bit of a surprise considering the size of the snake. "Even the officer said, 'How did it get in there?'
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"He was a really big snake," she said. Deputies removed the snake, and the family says it will now keep all windows closed.
Teresa Olivas, from Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma, said she often checks for snakes outside but never expected to wake up and see one in her birdcage.
She says she thinks it entered through an open window, a bit of a surprise considering the size of the snake. "Even the officer said, 'How did it get in there?'
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"He was a really big snake," she said. Deputies removed the snake, and the family says it will now keep all windows closed.
Passengers ran for their lives after 'foreign man' appeared to faint on Shanghai train
A 'foreign man' collapsing on the Shanghai metro in China caused passengers to flee the carriage and triggered a stampede to the exits, in a bizarre incident captured on camera.
Filmed on the evening of August 9, the video – just released – shows a white man slumping over sideways in his seat and then rolling onto the floor of the subway car. As he hit the floor, passengers started running away from the man, leaving the carriage almost empty.
At the next stop, passengers are seen scrambling out of the train, with at least one man almost getting trampled in the stampede. The commotion may have been partly caused by a fellow passenger shouting “Accident!” after the man collapsed.
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The footage then cuts to a scene of the man on his feet and looking dazed as two people, likely metro staff, inspect the carriage. Finding nothing, the staff leave and the man takes a seat as the doors close.
Filmed on the evening of August 9, the video – just released – shows a white man slumping over sideways in his seat and then rolling onto the floor of the subway car. As he hit the floor, passengers started running away from the man, leaving the carriage almost empty.
At the next stop, passengers are seen scrambling out of the train, with at least one man almost getting trampled in the stampede. The commotion may have been partly caused by a fellow passenger shouting “Accident!” after the man collapsed.
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The footage then cuts to a scene of the man on his feet and looking dazed as two people, likely metro staff, inspect the carriage. Finding nothing, the staff leave and the man takes a seat as the doors close.
Stray kitten rescued after getting head stuck in wooden garden table
A family from the Lee suburb of Lewisham, south east London, found a stray kitten in their back garden with its head stuck in a table.
A vet from the Lewisham branch of animal trust Celia Hammond was sent to help the distressed kitten. The kitten was then sedated so the wood could be broken to release its little head.
An investigation has been launched to search for the remainder of its family as no one has claimed the kitty. A stray mother and several siblings were spotted in the surrounding area. The worry is that cats left unneutered continue to have litters.
Manager of rescue and re-homing at Celia Hammond, Lesley Mills, said: "If we don’t find the rest of the family, we could end up with 50 to 60 cats." The rescued kitten has no injuries but is a little cranky. The search for its family continues.
A vet from the Lewisham branch of animal trust Celia Hammond was sent to help the distressed kitten. The kitten was then sedated so the wood could be broken to release its little head.
An investigation has been launched to search for the remainder of its family as no one has claimed the kitty. A stray mother and several siblings were spotted in the surrounding area. The worry is that cats left unneutered continue to have litters.
Manager of rescue and re-homing at Celia Hammond, Lesley Mills, said: "If we don’t find the rest of the family, we could end up with 50 to 60 cats." The rescued kitten has no injuries but is a little cranky. The search for its family continues.
Deported Lithuanian burglar returned to UK to retrieve hidden stolen jewellery
A deported burglar was caught and re-jailed when he returned to Peterborough to retrieve stolen jewellery he had hidden under floorboards.
The home of Alexandra Kalandrani was ransacked by Lithuanian Marius Siurkus in March. He was jailed for burglary in June.
After release he was deported, but was found 10 days later back in the city.
Siurkus, 32, and accomplice Mantas Pronckus, 27, pleaded guilty to burgling the house Ms Kalandrani shared with her mother. Pronckus is currently serving a two-year sentence, but Siurkus, jailed for a year, was released earlier this month and deported to Lithuania. On 13 August, just 10 days after he was deported, he was identified as a suspect in an assault investigation in Peterborough. On 15 August Siurkus was arrested by Cambridgeshire Police at his old home in St Martin's Street.
Officers noticed floorboards in the property had been lifted, and a quantity of jewellery from the burglary was discovered. The "irreplaceable" jewellery, given to Ms Kalandrani by her mother, who died three months after the burglary, has now been returned to her. "I'm extremely happy. Sadly some of the more sentimental items have not been found, but it's just bizarre," Ms Kalandrani said. "I'm excited to have the jewellery back, but also frustrated because there's been a failure somewhere.
"I don't understand how someone can walk back into the country so easily despite being deported." Cambridgeshire Police said Siurkus had returned to prison to serve out the rest of his sentence. No further action took place over the assault. Det Con Jason Hancock said: "We will continue to track down and arrest those responsible for burglary and tackle offenders who ignore deportation orders." The Home Office, which monitors UK immigration and customs controls through its Border Force section, refused to comment on whether measures were in place to prevent deported prisoners such as Siurkus re-entering the country.
Siurkus, 32, and accomplice Mantas Pronckus, 27, pleaded guilty to burgling the house Ms Kalandrani shared with her mother. Pronckus is currently serving a two-year sentence, but Siurkus, jailed for a year, was released earlier this month and deported to Lithuania. On 13 August, just 10 days after he was deported, he was identified as a suspect in an assault investigation in Peterborough. On 15 August Siurkus was arrested by Cambridgeshire Police at his old home in St Martin's Street.
Officers noticed floorboards in the property had been lifted, and a quantity of jewellery from the burglary was discovered. The "irreplaceable" jewellery, given to Ms Kalandrani by her mother, who died three months after the burglary, has now been returned to her. "I'm extremely happy. Sadly some of the more sentimental items have not been found, but it's just bizarre," Ms Kalandrani said. "I'm excited to have the jewellery back, but also frustrated because there's been a failure somewhere.
"I don't understand how someone can walk back into the country so easily despite being deported." Cambridgeshire Police said Siurkus had returned to prison to serve out the rest of his sentence. No further action took place over the assault. Det Con Jason Hancock said: "We will continue to track down and arrest those responsible for burglary and tackle offenders who ignore deportation orders." The Home Office, which monitors UK immigration and customs controls through its Border Force section, refused to comment on whether measures were in place to prevent deported prisoners such as Siurkus re-entering the country.
Women caught on camera stealing freshly laid lawn
When Bobby Stacey reviewed footage from a newly installed CCTV camera outside his home in Skelmersdale, Lancashire, he was surprised to see two middle age-looking women creeping along a footpath and making off with bundles of his neighbour's freshly laid lawn.
They returned again and again and on each occasion, pulled up large sections of the turf before hurriedly carrying it down the street until more than half of the new lawn was pilfered. "I couldn't stop laughing," Mr Stacey said. "I was annoyed at the same time though. The reason I got the CCTV in the first place is because my shed had been broken into a few weeks earlier and a load of tools were stolen.
"So I put padlock on the shed. Then the thieves came back and used my own bolt cutters to cut the lock and steal a mountain bike. It's just cheeky." Mr Stacey said his neighbour had spent the previous day laying the new grass. "The guy spent all day levelling that ground, making it look good and then to come out the next morning and it's gone. It's just terrible."
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Lancashire Police confirmed the incident was reported to them. "Police have investigated this incident," a spokeswoman said. "We're at the stage that there are no further lines of inquiry but would appeal to anyone with information to come forward." Mr Stacey said the thieves moved in on the turf shortly after 5am and that the theft took around 40 minutes to complete. "They even took a cigarette break," he said.
They returned again and again and on each occasion, pulled up large sections of the turf before hurriedly carrying it down the street until more than half of the new lawn was pilfered. "I couldn't stop laughing," Mr Stacey said. "I was annoyed at the same time though. The reason I got the CCTV in the first place is because my shed had been broken into a few weeks earlier and a load of tools were stolen.
"So I put padlock on the shed. Then the thieves came back and used my own bolt cutters to cut the lock and steal a mountain bike. It's just cheeky." Mr Stacey said his neighbour had spent the previous day laying the new grass. "The guy spent all day levelling that ground, making it look good and then to come out the next morning and it's gone. It's just terrible."
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Lancashire Police confirmed the incident was reported to them. "Police have investigated this incident," a spokeswoman said. "We're at the stage that there are no further lines of inquiry but would appeal to anyone with information to come forward." Mr Stacey said the thieves moved in on the turf shortly after 5am and that the theft took around 40 minutes to complete. "They even took a cigarette break," he said.
Dog found science disc 50 years too late to get five shillings reward
A dog has found part of a science project in the shape of a disc - 50 years too late to get a reward.
Barney the collie brought the red plastic disc to his owner David Russell, after finding it on Silecroft beach, in west Cumbria.
It had been thrown into the Irish Sea in the 1960s as part of a study into water movement and gone adrift.
Mr Russell, of Batley, West Yorkshire, returned it to Bangor University but was too late to get a five shillings - the equivalent of 25p in today’s metric system - reward The drifter disc had been released by John Harvey, now a retired oceanographer, who was then working in the university's marine science laboratory.
The disc was one of many released as part of the project and most never came back - this one being washed up more than 100 miles (161km) up the north west coast. Mr Russell said: "There must be something about the currents that bring things to this beach - I've previously found a meteorological balloon here." Mr Harvey said he found it "disturbing" that the plastic had lasted so long - a copper weight attached had eroded away.
"The research told us about the movement of seabed and sea-surface currents in the Irish Sea, and the results were published in a journal in 1968. We typically had return rates of about 34% for our drifters", he explained. The plastic has a very long life in the sea - it is in a good condition after 50 years, which is somewhat disturbing - unfortunately there is far too much plastic in the world's oceans generally."
Mr Russell, of Batley, West Yorkshire, returned it to Bangor University but was too late to get a five shillings - the equivalent of 25p in today’s metric system - reward The drifter disc had been released by John Harvey, now a retired oceanographer, who was then working in the university's marine science laboratory.
The disc was one of many released as part of the project and most never came back - this one being washed up more than 100 miles (161km) up the north west coast. Mr Russell said: "There must be something about the currents that bring things to this beach - I've previously found a meteorological balloon here." Mr Harvey said he found it "disturbing" that the plastic had lasted so long - a copper weight attached had eroded away.
"The research told us about the movement of seabed and sea-surface currents in the Irish Sea, and the results were published in a journal in 1968. We typically had return rates of about 34% for our drifters", he explained. The plastic has a very long life in the sea - it is in a good condition after 50 years, which is somewhat disturbing - unfortunately there is far too much plastic in the world's oceans generally."
Hazardous response team sent to rescue elderly woman injured in maze
A 'highly skilled' hazardous response team was called to rescue an elderly woman who fell and injured herself in the 10 acre Blake House Craft Centre maze in Braintree, Essex.
The woman was rushed to hospital on Tuesday afternoon after falling at the 8-foot-tall maize maze at around 2.30pm. The hazardous response team is described as highly skilled and able to "work in difficult environments".
A spokesman for the East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust said: "An elderly woman injured her arm when she fell in a maze.
"As she was in a maze, it was quite difficult for our crews to transport her out using their normal equipment so we dispatched HART who have a specialist piece of equipment that was used to stretcher the woman out. She was then taken to Broomfield Hospital for further assessment and treatment."
The woman was rushed to hospital on Tuesday afternoon after falling at the 8-foot-tall maize maze at around 2.30pm. The hazardous response team is described as highly skilled and able to "work in difficult environments".
A spokesman for the East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust said: "An elderly woman injured her arm when she fell in a maze.
"As she was in a maze, it was quite difficult for our crews to transport her out using their normal equipment so we dispatched HART who have a specialist piece of equipment that was used to stretcher the woman out. She was then taken to Broomfield Hospital for further assessment and treatment."
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