Monday, October 13, 2014
Dolphin accidentally jumps into fishing boat
During a fishing trip in Homossassa, Florida, a playful dolphin mistakenly jumped into the boat.
The dolphin was later safely returned to the water.
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The dolphin was later safely returned to the water.
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Jealous lemur puts a stop to his compadre grooming a fawn
Liam the ringtail lemur isn't happy that Mia the fawn is allowing Charlie to groom her.
She was given one polite warning. And then.
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She was given one polite warning. And then.
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Woman called police about angry iguana
A woman staying at a resort in Key West, Florida, was bitten by an iguana on Wednesday night. But the reptile nipped her toe because she harassed the iguana to the point of angering it, according to a city Police Department report.
It's not clear who called police to the Coconut Mallory Resort, but Amy Russell, 39, reportedly from Alabama, told police the iguana bit her toe and she feared contracting salmonella.
Most iguanas are wild and the resort doesn't own the "bright green medium-sized iguana," Officer Brenda Sellers wrote in her report. Also, iguanas generally stay away from humans and rarely bite.
Sellers said that Russell, upon showing her toe with "bright red toenail polish, was squeezing her toe like she was trying to make it look red." But the officer wrote "no injury was visible." Two other women at the resort told Sellers that Russell was "pushing her foot towards the iguana, antagonising it."
It's not clear who called police to the Coconut Mallory Resort, but Amy Russell, 39, reportedly from Alabama, told police the iguana bit her toe and she feared contracting salmonella.
Most iguanas are wild and the resort doesn't own the "bright green medium-sized iguana," Officer Brenda Sellers wrote in her report. Also, iguanas generally stay away from humans and rarely bite.
Sellers said that Russell, upon showing her toe with "bright red toenail polish, was squeezing her toe like she was trying to make it look red." But the officer wrote "no injury was visible." Two other women at the resort told Sellers that Russell was "pushing her foot towards the iguana, antagonising it."
Police used pepper spray to control women in hair weave melee
A sale on hair extensions at a beauty supply store in Orlando, Florida, got out of hand on Friday and forced police officers to use pepper spray to control shoppers, Orlando police said.
Beauty Exchange, which opened about three months ago, was having one in a series of grand opening sales, manager Zaid Muhsen said.
The first 50 customers of the day could get a bundle of hair for extensions or a weave worth $50 to $100 for one penny, he said.
The store has had similar one-penny deals before, Muhsen said, and while they usually draw a crowd, customers usually stay orderly. When Muhsen arrived at his store five minutes before the 9am opening, there were already shoppers waiting at the door, he said. "Hundreds of people," he said. "Hundreds. I'm not sure – 400, 500." The store's two security guards tried to keep the customers in line, and allow only 10 people in at a time, Muhsen said.
But shoppers did not listen to them, and eight police officers arrived to help with crowd control, Muhsen said. "The police tried to hold them up, they pushed the police, the police got mad. It started getting outta control, and then they [police] pepper sprayed," Muhsen said. Two of the officers aimed pepper spray over the heads of customers, who immediately scattered, Muhsen said. Sgt. Lovetta Quinn-Henry, an Orlando police spokeswoman, said the officers' conduct is being reviewed "to make sure everything was within OPD policy."
"What is most important is peace was restored, no one was injured or arrested," she said. Muhsen said he wished police did not use pepper spray on his customers. "When the police were saying everybody leave, everybody leave, I got a little upset. Because I'm doing this for the community, I'm doing this for my customers, and I don't want my customers to leave," Muhsen said. Still, Muhsen said he is not angry at officers. "They were doing their job, the police."
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The store has had similar one-penny deals before, Muhsen said, and while they usually draw a crowd, customers usually stay orderly. When Muhsen arrived at his store five minutes before the 9am opening, there were already shoppers waiting at the door, he said. "Hundreds of people," he said. "Hundreds. I'm not sure – 400, 500." The store's two security guards tried to keep the customers in line, and allow only 10 people in at a time, Muhsen said.
But shoppers did not listen to them, and eight police officers arrived to help with crowd control, Muhsen said. "The police tried to hold them up, they pushed the police, the police got mad. It started getting outta control, and then they [police] pepper sprayed," Muhsen said. Two of the officers aimed pepper spray over the heads of customers, who immediately scattered, Muhsen said. Sgt. Lovetta Quinn-Henry, an Orlando police spokeswoman, said the officers' conduct is being reviewed "to make sure everything was within OPD policy."
"What is most important is peace was restored, no one was injured or arrested," she said. Muhsen said he wished police did not use pepper spray on his customers. "When the police were saying everybody leave, everybody leave, I got a little upset. Because I'm doing this for the community, I'm doing this for my customers, and I don't want my customers to leave," Muhsen said. Still, Muhsen said he is not angry at officers. "They were doing their job, the police."
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Man crawled up from New York subway hatch to throw smoke bomb at diners
Police say a man climbed out of a sidewalk grate and hurled a smoke bomb into Greenwich Village restaurant diners on Friday evening, before climbing back underground and vanishing.
The incident happened at around 5:45pm at the Da Silvano restaurant and Bar Pitti restaurant.
The suspect emerged from the grate that leads up from the subway system and threw the device, police said.
The bomb emitted red smoke when a suspect wearing an American flag T-shirt hurled it, police said. The manager at Bar Pitti said an employee grabbed the smoking device and tossed it back outside, at which point the suspect ducked back underground and disappeared. The incident brought the NYPD Bomb Squad to the scene, but no one was injured, police said.
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“First thought was ISIS with everything going on. It’s scary. It’s nerve-wracking, as a native Long Islander coming to the city for dinner with friends and family,” said tourist Kay Maygothling. “I’m glad I didn’t bring my daughter.” Hours after the incident, restaurant customers filled the sidewalk cafĂ© once more, under the watchful eye of a lone police officer.
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Some of them joked about what might have been behind the bizarre incident. “It’s New York. We have troglodytes,” said Manhattan resident Hal Hayes. “They live down in the tunnels. They come out when they need some air.” It was not known whether the smoke bomb incident was a statement, a warning, or something to do with the restaurant business. Police said it was not related to terrorism. The suspect, who is described as a white male approximately 20 years old with blond wavy hair, remains on the loose.
The bomb emitted red smoke when a suspect wearing an American flag T-shirt hurled it, police said. The manager at Bar Pitti said an employee grabbed the smoking device and tossed it back outside, at which point the suspect ducked back underground and disappeared. The incident brought the NYPD Bomb Squad to the scene, but no one was injured, police said.
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“First thought was ISIS with everything going on. It’s scary. It’s nerve-wracking, as a native Long Islander coming to the city for dinner with friends and family,” said tourist Kay Maygothling. “I’m glad I didn’t bring my daughter.” Hours after the incident, restaurant customers filled the sidewalk cafĂ© once more, under the watchful eye of a lone police officer.
News video.
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Some of them joked about what might have been behind the bizarre incident. “It’s New York. We have troglodytes,” said Manhattan resident Hal Hayes. “They live down in the tunnels. They come out when they need some air.” It was not known whether the smoke bomb incident was a statement, a warning, or something to do with the restaurant business. Police said it was not related to terrorism. The suspect, who is described as a white male approximately 20 years old with blond wavy hair, remains on the loose.
Teenager killed by bus in zombie maze
A teenager who was role-playing as a zombie has been run over and killed by a bus carrying paintballers inside an Idaho corn maze.
Jeremy T McSpadden Jr, 18, of Spokane Valley, Washington, stumbled, fell and was run over under the rear passenger wheel of a bus which was part of a “Zombie Slayer Bus Ride” held at the Incredible Corn Maze in Hauser, Idaho. “Many of the patrons believed it was just part of the ride,” said a release from the Kootenai County sheriff’s office.
“It was not until the bus had travelled away from the victim’s location and the role players began to reset for the next bus to come along that anyone realized something was wrong.” McSpadden was likely killed instantly when he was run over at about 10.30pm on Friday. Officials do not believe alcohol or speed were factors.
The bus was “creeping along”, witnesses said, at a speed not registered on the speedometer. “The focus of the attraction is the bus creeps forward so the customers have plenty of opportunity to blast away at the zombies,” Sergeant Crawford Ward said. “This looks like it was just a horrific confluence of events.” The Zombie Slayer Bus Ride was added to the Incredible Corn Maze this year.
Jeremy T McSpadden Jr, 18, of Spokane Valley, Washington, stumbled, fell and was run over under the rear passenger wheel of a bus which was part of a “Zombie Slayer Bus Ride” held at the Incredible Corn Maze in Hauser, Idaho. “Many of the patrons believed it was just part of the ride,” said a release from the Kootenai County sheriff’s office.
“It was not until the bus had travelled away from the victim’s location and the role players began to reset for the next bus to come along that anyone realized something was wrong.” McSpadden was likely killed instantly when he was run over at about 10.30pm on Friday. Officials do not believe alcohol or speed were factors.
The bus was “creeping along”, witnesses said, at a speed not registered on the speedometer. “The focus of the attraction is the bus creeps forward so the customers have plenty of opportunity to blast away at the zombies,” Sergeant Crawford Ward said. “This looks like it was just a horrific confluence of events.” The Zombie Slayer Bus Ride was added to the Incredible Corn Maze this year.
Burglar who had sex with teddy bear in allotment shed caught after DNA match
A 38-year-old man was arrested for burglary after police made a DNA match on semen found inside a teddy bear.
Blackburn magistrates heard Paul Mountain later told police he was coming down off amphetamine and felt an ‘overwhelming need’ for sexual relief.
Dominic Howells, prosecuting, said the owner of an allotment in Darwen, Lancashire, found a shed had been broken into and the contents spread all around. Among the wreckage she found the teddy bear. "That was passed to the police and semen found inside came back to this defendant," said Mr Howells.
"He told officers he was coming down off amphetamine and felt overwhelming need for sexual relief." Mountain, of Darwen, pleaded guilty to burglary at the shed with intent to steal. He was remanded on bail for the preparation of a pre-sentence report.
Blackburn magistrates heard Paul Mountain later told police he was coming down off amphetamine and felt an ‘overwhelming need’ for sexual relief.
Dominic Howells, prosecuting, said the owner of an allotment in Darwen, Lancashire, found a shed had been broken into and the contents spread all around. Among the wreckage she found the teddy bear. "That was passed to the police and semen found inside came back to this defendant," said Mr Howells.
"He told officers he was coming down off amphetamine and felt overwhelming need for sexual relief." Mountain, of Darwen, pleaded guilty to burglary at the shed with intent to steal. He was remanded on bail for the preparation of a pre-sentence report.
Drunken hovercraft pilot jailed
A hovercraft pilot who transported passengers across the Solent while nearly three times the legal alcohol limit has been jailed for eight months.
A colleague had to take the controls when Richard Pease collapsed after missing the landing pad at Ryde on the Isle of Wight on 22 June.
The craft was carrying 36 passengers at the time. It had previously taken 95 passengers to Southsea in Hampshire. Pease, 50, of Northwood on the island, pleaded guilty at a previous hearing. Newport Crown Court heard a colleague on the Freedom 90 craft noticed Pease's reaction time was slow during the crossing and that he failed to carry out a manoeuvre properly when the hovercraft came across a tanker.
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When Pease was asked if he was okay following the failed landing, the court heard he gave no positive response, his head dropped and his body went limp in the chair. A colleague had to take the controls, releasing air, and making the craft safe. Another pilot then boarded to land it safely. When Pease was breath tested, some six hours later, he was nearly three times the legal limit.
Pease, one of Hovertravel's most experienced pilots, admitted a charge of being master of a hovercraft having consumed excess alcohol. Sentencing Pease, who has admitted to having a past dependency on alcohol, Judge Susan Evans QC said: "It's tragic that someone of your standing and with such an impressive past career should have destroyed all of that in one day. It was an appalling breach of your duty. Your actions could have resulted in tragedy but fortunately they did not."
The craft was carrying 36 passengers at the time. It had previously taken 95 passengers to Southsea in Hampshire. Pease, 50, of Northwood on the island, pleaded guilty at a previous hearing. Newport Crown Court heard a colleague on the Freedom 90 craft noticed Pease's reaction time was slow during the crossing and that he failed to carry out a manoeuvre properly when the hovercraft came across a tanker.
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When Pease was asked if he was okay following the failed landing, the court heard he gave no positive response, his head dropped and his body went limp in the chair. A colleague had to take the controls, releasing air, and making the craft safe. Another pilot then boarded to land it safely. When Pease was breath tested, some six hours later, he was nearly three times the legal limit.
Pease, one of Hovertravel's most experienced pilots, admitted a charge of being master of a hovercraft having consumed excess alcohol. Sentencing Pease, who has admitted to having a past dependency on alcohol, Judge Susan Evans QC said: "It's tragic that someone of your standing and with such an impressive past career should have destroyed all of that in one day. It was an appalling breach of your duty. Your actions could have resulted in tragedy but fortunately they did not."
Backpacker returned home from Vietnam with three-inch leech living up her nose
A backpacker has told how she returned home from Vietnam with three-inch leech up her nose.
Daniela Liverani was travelling around south-east Asia when she started suffering persistent nosebleeds.
The 24-year-old assumed it was nothing more than a burst blood vessel.
Days later, after she returned home to Edinburgh, she spotted something poking out from her right nostril and thought it was just a blood clot.
But last week, she was rushed into A&E at Edinburgh’s Royal Infirmary after discovering a leech had been living in her nose for a month.
Daniela, originally from Glasgow, said: “About two weeks before I came home from Asia, I started having nosebleeds.
“I’d fallen off a motorbike just before they started so at first I thought I must have burst a blood vessel. After I got home, the nosebleeds stopped and I started seeing something sticking out of my nostril. I just thought it was congealed blood from the nosebleeds.” Even when the leech started to make its way out of her nose, Daniela still thought it was a blood clot. She said: “I saw him so many times but I just sniffed him back up. I tried to blow him out and grab him but I couldn’t get a grip of him before he retreated back up my nose. 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. 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. My friend Jenny and I called NHS 24 and were told to get to accident and emergency as soon as possible.” Daniela was whisked into a treatment room where a nurse and doctor examined her nose using a torch, forceps and tweezers. She said: “The staff were horrified. The doctor used a nose forceps to prise my nostrils open really wide – it was agony. The nurse and Jenny pinned me down to the bed. Whenever the doctor grabbed him, I could feel tugging at the inside of my nose. Then all of a sudden, after about half an hour, the pain stopped and the doctor had the leech in the tweezers. He was about as long as my forefinger but as fat as my thumb. He could move so fast as well, which freaked me out.
“I’ve no idea how he got up there but he’d have got bigger and bigger from feeding on my blood. He had been curled up in a big ball, using my nostril as a little nest, so Jenny and I called him Mr Curly. At one point, I could feel him up at my eyebrow. I asked the doctor what would’ve happened if I hadn’t gone to hospital and she said he’d probably have worked his way into my brain.” Mark Siddal, curator at the American Museum of Natural History in New York and an expert on leeches said: “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.”
“I’d fallen off a motorbike just before they started so at first I thought I must have burst a blood vessel. After I got home, the nosebleeds stopped and I started seeing something sticking out of my nostril. I just thought it was congealed blood from the nosebleeds.” Even when the leech started to make its way out of her nose, Daniela still thought it was a blood clot. She said: “I saw him so many times but I just sniffed him back up. I tried to blow him out and grab him but I couldn’t get a grip of him before he retreated back up my nose. 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. 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. My friend Jenny and I called NHS 24 and were told to get to accident and emergency as soon as possible.” Daniela was whisked into a treatment room where a nurse and doctor examined her nose using a torch, forceps and tweezers. She said: “The staff were horrified. The doctor used a nose forceps to prise my nostrils open really wide – it was agony. The nurse and Jenny pinned me down to the bed. Whenever the doctor grabbed him, I could feel tugging at the inside of my nose. Then all of a sudden, after about half an hour, the pain stopped and the doctor had the leech in the tweezers. He was about as long as my forefinger but as fat as my thumb. He could move so fast as well, which freaked me out.
“I’ve no idea how he got up there but he’d have got bigger and bigger from feeding on my blood. He had been curled up in a big ball, using my nostril as a little nest, so Jenny and I called him Mr Curly. At one point, I could feel him up at my eyebrow. I asked the doctor what would’ve happened if I hadn’t gone to hospital and she said he’d probably have worked his way into my brain.” Mark Siddal, curator at the American Museum of Natural History in New York and an expert on leeches said: “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.”
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