Monday, June 08, 2015
Gibbon befriends little rabbit
A gibbon at Wingham Wildlife Park in Kent seemed to be very happy after finding a small rabbit that had wandered into its enclosure.
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Man tried to sell live shark on pavement outside store
A South Florida man had plans to turn a catch into cash, as he attempted to sell a live shark outside a Publix store on Thursday evening.
Shoppers in Fort Lauderdale said the man hauled in the five-foot nurse shark, dropped it on the sidewalk and tried to sell it.
Patrick Lanier, the man who tried to sell the live shark, said he had reeled in the marine predator on the Intracoastal Waterway. "I felt like a leprechaun, like I struck gold," he said. Lanier said he was hoping to make about $100 from selling the shark, but no one seemed interested.
The shark remained on the pavement and up for sale as potential customers passed by. "Every so often I'd throw some water on it," said Lanier. "It was nice to see the people's faces light up, excited to get to touch it and really experience what it is," added Lanier. According to Publix officials, once managers figured out what Lanier was doing, they asked him to leave, and he did so politely.
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With no takers. Lanier said he released the shark back into the water on the Intracoastal, where it swam away. It it not legal in the state of Florida to sell a shark you have caught without a commercial licence, something Lanier said he figured out while trying to find a buyer. He said he's learned his lesson, and it's unlikely he'll ever do it again.
Patrick Lanier, the man who tried to sell the live shark, said he had reeled in the marine predator on the Intracoastal Waterway. "I felt like a leprechaun, like I struck gold," he said. Lanier said he was hoping to make about $100 from selling the shark, but no one seemed interested.
The shark remained on the pavement and up for sale as potential customers passed by. "Every so often I'd throw some water on it," said Lanier. "It was nice to see the people's faces light up, excited to get to touch it and really experience what it is," added Lanier. According to Publix officials, once managers figured out what Lanier was doing, they asked him to leave, and he did so politely.
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With no takers. Lanier said he released the shark back into the water on the Intracoastal, where it swam away. It it not legal in the state of Florida to sell a shark you have caught without a commercial licence, something Lanier said he figured out while trying to find a buyer. He said he's learned his lesson, and it's unlikely he'll ever do it again.
KFC employee set fire to trees after he thought he was going to be fired
A 28-year-old Kentucky Fried Chicken employee is facing charges after allegedly setting trees on fire behind the fast food restaurant because the thought he was getting fired.
The incident happened on Wednesday in Garfield Township Michigan.
Grand Traverse County Sheriff's deputies say the disgruntled KFC employee was asked to leave the restaurant after arriving at work. Deputies say the female manager asked the employee to leave due to 'employee related issues' and for causing a disturbance.
Deputies say the employee believed he was being fired. After speaking with his manager at around 11am, the man allegedly set fire to several cedar trees behind the restaurant and then left the property. The man returned to KFC at around 1:30pm where he allegedly pushed the manager.
He then went into his manager's unlocked vehicle in the parking lot and took some items, deputies report. The suspect was later found walking around the area and was arrested on charges of arson, breaking and entering into a vehicle as well as assault. Grand Traverse Metro Fire Department was called to put out the fire.
Grand Traverse County Sheriff's deputies say the disgruntled KFC employee was asked to leave the restaurant after arriving at work. Deputies say the female manager asked the employee to leave due to 'employee related issues' and for causing a disturbance.
Deputies say the employee believed he was being fired. After speaking with his manager at around 11am, the man allegedly set fire to several cedar trees behind the restaurant and then left the property. The man returned to KFC at around 1:30pm where he allegedly pushed the manager.
He then went into his manager's unlocked vehicle in the parking lot and took some items, deputies report. The suspect was later found walking around the area and was arrested on charges of arson, breaking and entering into a vehicle as well as assault. Grand Traverse Metro Fire Department was called to put out the fire.
Doctors warn that text neck can cause serious damage to teenagers
A new physical ailment is affecting the tech-savvy generation.
Some youngsters are spending as much as 5,000 hours a year reading their cellphones, leading to chronic pain known as "text neck" and doctors say it could cause serious damage."
Sarah Atchison texts with the best of them, but looking down at her smart phone, often for hours at a time, left the 14-year-old with a pain in her neck.
"It was mostly just achy. And it made it really hard to concentrate,” Sarah said. Dr Chad Cotter, of HealthSource Chiropractic in Littleton, Colorado, who says his patients are getting younger and younger, said: "Text neck is where the proper curve in the cervical spine actually gets reduced and can even move forward”. A good curve is ideally 40 degree but Sarah's x-rays showed a different story.
"This should be shaped like the red line. But this girl has lost that neck curve and it has moved to a classic reverse curve or text neck,” Cotter said. Cotter is helping Sarah reverse damage that used to take decades to develop. "Tension across the shoulders, generalised neck pain, migraines. It can even be numbness and tingling down the arms that we're seeing in high schoolers,” he said. “It's alarming. It's setting those kids up to have major problems as adults.
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"Kids don't know how to explain it to their parents. They don't know how to express it correctly. And so parents discount what their kids are saying until it becomes a big problem." Using head-weights, shoulder exercises, resistance bands and re-adjustments, Dr Cotter, and his team are working to strengthen Sarah's neck and back muscles and he said the treatments, if done properly, can quickly counteract the symptoms of smart phone use and alleviate texting tension.
"It was mostly just achy. And it made it really hard to concentrate,” Sarah said. Dr Chad Cotter, of HealthSource Chiropractic in Littleton, Colorado, who says his patients are getting younger and younger, said: "Text neck is where the proper curve in the cervical spine actually gets reduced and can even move forward”. A good curve is ideally 40 degree but Sarah's x-rays showed a different story.
"This should be shaped like the red line. But this girl has lost that neck curve and it has moved to a classic reverse curve or text neck,” Cotter said. Cotter is helping Sarah reverse damage that used to take decades to develop. "Tension across the shoulders, generalised neck pain, migraines. It can even be numbness and tingling down the arms that we're seeing in high schoolers,” he said. “It's alarming. It's setting those kids up to have major problems as adults.
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"Kids don't know how to explain it to their parents. They don't know how to express it correctly. And so parents discount what their kids are saying until it becomes a big problem." Using head-weights, shoulder exercises, resistance bands and re-adjustments, Dr Cotter, and his team are working to strengthen Sarah's neck and back muscles and he said the treatments, if done properly, can quickly counteract the symptoms of smart phone use and alleviate texting tension.
Dog rescued after driving car into a pond
A man from Warren, Vermont, left his dog in the car for just minutes, when he says the dog drove the car into a pond.
“Normally I always pull up the emergency brake, it's a stick shift. So I had it in gear but I guess I didn't have it in gear or she knocked it out. And when she knocked it out of gear, she drove it into the lake,” said Nick Hayer of his 2-year-old dog Lucy.
He says the English bulldog, who works as a therapy dog, had tagged along on a trip to Killington for the day while Hayer was attending a conference. “At lunchtime they said do you want to come in for lunch really quick and I said, 'Okay I'll come in for 10 minutes. That's it.' So I rolled the windows down halfway, opened the sunroof. Put her in the car I went inside,” Hayer said.
He said it was just going to be a quick trip, but it didn't take long. “About a minute later some guy came up to me and said your car is in the pond but we rescued your dog,” Hayer said. When he made it outside, Hayer found his Volkswagen Jetta submerged in the water, totalled.
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Lucy was running around safe. Hayer says the man who rescued Lucy was an employee at the hotel. He says he is grateful to have his beloved pet safe. “He got her out and she's fine. But she would have died. She could have died I think because these dogs can't swim,” Hayer said. Following her adventure, Hayer says Lucy took a long nap.
He says the English bulldog, who works as a therapy dog, had tagged along on a trip to Killington for the day while Hayer was attending a conference. “At lunchtime they said do you want to come in for lunch really quick and I said, 'Okay I'll come in for 10 minutes. That's it.' So I rolled the windows down halfway, opened the sunroof. Put her in the car I went inside,” Hayer said.
He said it was just going to be a quick trip, but it didn't take long. “About a minute later some guy came up to me and said your car is in the pond but we rescued your dog,” Hayer said. When he made it outside, Hayer found his Volkswagen Jetta submerged in the water, totalled.
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Lucy was running around safe. Hayer says the man who rescued Lucy was an employee at the hotel. He says he is grateful to have his beloved pet safe. “He got her out and she's fine. But she would have died. She could have died I think because these dogs can't swim,” Hayer said. Following her adventure, Hayer says Lucy took a long nap.
Man's pet gull sentenced to death
A man in Nora, central Sweden, who captured a herring gull as a chick and kept it in his bathroom for two years, has been told that the bird must be killed.
The bird was discovered in the man's dark, tiny bathroom when an animal welfare inspector made an inspection following a complaint.
The man said that he had captured the bird as a chick and had since fed it fish and vitamins, and also let it fly in his apartment.
According to the inspector, the herring gull will be unable to fend for itself in nature, as it has not learned to forage for food itself and has never flown outdoors. Since it is prohibited to catch and care for wild birds without a permit, the decision was taken to destroy the bird.
The bird was discovered in the man's dark, tiny bathroom when an animal welfare inspector made an inspection following a complaint.
The man said that he had captured the bird as a chick and had since fed it fish and vitamins, and also let it fly in his apartment.
According to the inspector, the herring gull will be unable to fend for itself in nature, as it has not learned to forage for food itself and has never flown outdoors. Since it is prohibited to catch and care for wild birds without a permit, the decision was taken to destroy the bird.
Flybe flight forced to return to airport due to bee
A plane operated by airline Flybe was forced to turn back after a bee became stuck in one of its instruments.
The drama began when flight BE384 began experiencing trouble while airborne from Southampton to Dublin.
Concerned for the safety of passengers, the pilot turned and made a return to Southampton Airport. Back on the ground, engineers found that the cause of the engine trouble was a bumble bee. With the bug removed from harm's way the plane again took off, safely landing in Dublin after a two-hour delay.
Passenger Noel Rooney tweeted: "Well, that's not happened to me before. A bumble bee got stuck in the wind instrument thingie on #flyBe flight BE384. Yep, that FlyBEE." A Flybe spokesman said: "Flybe can confirm that flight BE384 travelling to Dublin returned from airborne to Southampton following a suspected technical issue.
"The aircraft landed without incident and all passengers disembarked as normal. Upon inspection, Flybe engineers did discover that the cause of the issue was a bee that had become lodged in an item of instrumentation on the outside of the aircraft. The safety of its passengers and crew is the airline’s number one priority and Flybe regrets any inconvenience experienced as a result of the delay to this flight."
Concerned for the safety of passengers, the pilot turned and made a return to Southampton Airport. Back on the ground, engineers found that the cause of the engine trouble was a bumble bee. With the bug removed from harm's way the plane again took off, safely landing in Dublin after a two-hour delay.
Passenger Noel Rooney tweeted: "Well, that's not happened to me before. A bumble bee got stuck in the wind instrument thingie on #flyBe flight BE384. Yep, that FlyBEE." A Flybe spokesman said: "Flybe can confirm that flight BE384 travelling to Dublin returned from airborne to Southampton following a suspected technical issue.
"The aircraft landed without incident and all passengers disembarked as normal. Upon inspection, Flybe engineers did discover that the cause of the issue was a bee that had become lodged in an item of instrumentation on the outside of the aircraft. The safety of its passengers and crew is the airline’s number one priority and Flybe regrets any inconvenience experienced as a result of the delay to this flight."
Angry man who threw Cadbury's Creme Eggs around store wanted by police
Police have released a CCTV image of a man who lost his temper and vandalised a supermarket using Creme Eggs.
The man pictured was initally suspected by staff of shoplifting at Tesco Express in Chingford, east London, after he started acting suspiciously.
When he was challenged by staff, he became angry and threw a number Cadbury's Creme Eggs around the store.
During the outburst, on March 24 at around 7.45pm, he also destroyed £200 worth of flowers. Anyone with information is asked to call police.
The man pictured was initally suspected by staff of shoplifting at Tesco Express in Chingford, east London, after he started acting suspiciously.
When he was challenged by staff, he became angry and threw a number Cadbury's Creme Eggs around the store.
During the outburst, on March 24 at around 7.45pm, he also destroyed £200 worth of flowers. Anyone with information is asked to call police.
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