Saturday, July 11, 2015
Neighbourhood terrorised by aggressive cat
People in Pearl River, New York, got a strange reverse 911 call on Monday, telling them to be on the lookout for an aggressive animal that’s been attacking neighbors and pets.
Chris McKiernan had an encounter with a ferocious feline near a neighbour’s back door. It was a feral, possibly rabid animal.
The run-in put a damper on outdoor activity in part of Pearl River, in southern Rockland County. “It’s been like lockdown. I feel bad for the kids, they’re afraid to go out,” McKiernan said. The aggressive black cat bites, scratches, and gets away. Several people and a dog have been injured over three days. Pets are confined or on a short leash. Those who have met the attack cat said they’ll never forget it.
“It was strange because it didn’t make a whole lot of noise like cats usually do. It was real quiet, and stared at me and had blood on its mouth. It was a little surreal,” McKiernan said. The Saldano family feels safe in their pool, but not beyond that. “He came out of nowhere. It was one o’clock in the morning, and all of a sudden he just leaped at me and I kicked him and he came again,” Joe Saldano said. Saldano kept kicking the cat away and it kept coming back.
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He finally retreated inside, and the cat sat on the welcome mat waiting for him. The next day they were so freaked out they went to a relative’s in Brooklyn, just to get away. The cat’s physical appearance has many convinced they’re dealing with a case of rabies. “It was wobbly and it was very thin,” Patricia McGowan said. Many residents are on edge. Local police confirmed they were looking for the cat to have it tested. At least one victim has already started rabies injections.
The run-in put a damper on outdoor activity in part of Pearl River, in southern Rockland County. “It’s been like lockdown. I feel bad for the kids, they’re afraid to go out,” McKiernan said. The aggressive black cat bites, scratches, and gets away. Several people and a dog have been injured over three days. Pets are confined or on a short leash. Those who have met the attack cat said they’ll never forget it.
“It was strange because it didn’t make a whole lot of noise like cats usually do. It was real quiet, and stared at me and had blood on its mouth. It was a little surreal,” McKiernan said. The Saldano family feels safe in their pool, but not beyond that. “He came out of nowhere. It was one o’clock in the morning, and all of a sudden he just leaped at me and I kicked him and he came again,” Joe Saldano said. Saldano kept kicking the cat away and it kept coming back.
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He finally retreated inside, and the cat sat on the welcome mat waiting for him. The next day they were so freaked out they went to a relative’s in Brooklyn, just to get away. The cat’s physical appearance has many convinced they’re dealing with a case of rabies. “It was wobbly and it was very thin,” Patricia McGowan said. Many residents are on edge. Local police confirmed they were looking for the cat to have it tested. At least one victim has already started rabies injections.
Burglary suspect arrested after being chased into barbed wire fence by angry bull
Marshall County Sheriff Scott Walls reports that a man caught burgling a home didn't get far after pursuing deputies got a little bovine help on their side.
Walls said an Arab, Alabama, man caught a man and woman burgling his home on Wednesday morning. The homeowner called the sheriff's office then chased them off his property. County deputies and Arab police officers found the suspects' Chevrolet truck shortly after.
Deputies say the suspects led them on a pursuit until they crashed in the Union Grove area. They both fled on foot. The driver, 26-year-old Brad Lynn Hemby, fled across a cow pasture and grabbed the attention of a bull that was roaming the field. The sheriff's office reports that the bull gave chase along with deputies.
They said Hemby tried to elude the bull but fell into a barbed wire fence and immediately surrendered to deputies. Hemby was arrested and charged with burglary, criminal mischief and attempting to elude a police officer. His female companion got away in a wooded area. She has not yet been located. After the arrest, deputies recovered stolen property from the suspects' vehicle. Bond has not been set at this time.
Walls said an Arab, Alabama, man caught a man and woman burgling his home on Wednesday morning. The homeowner called the sheriff's office then chased them off his property. County deputies and Arab police officers found the suspects' Chevrolet truck shortly after.
Deputies say the suspects led them on a pursuit until they crashed in the Union Grove area. They both fled on foot. The driver, 26-year-old Brad Lynn Hemby, fled across a cow pasture and grabbed the attention of a bull that was roaming the field. The sheriff's office reports that the bull gave chase along with deputies.
They said Hemby tried to elude the bull but fell into a barbed wire fence and immediately surrendered to deputies. Hemby was arrested and charged with burglary, criminal mischief and attempting to elude a police officer. His female companion got away in a wooded area. She has not yet been located. After the arrest, deputies recovered stolen property from the suspects' vehicle. Bond has not been set at this time.
Hungry labrador indulged in smörgåsbord of hair bands, rubber bands and underwear
Tiki is a black Labrador retriever with a remarkable appetite and unusual tastes. Her vet, Dr. Hisham Ibrahim, of Good Shepherd's Veterinary Hospital in Mars, Pennsylvania, found proof of that inside her stomach when he surgically removed a variety of discoveries, including 62 hair bands and enough underwear to last someone more than week.
"'Doctor I' started pulling handfuls of different items out," Emily Cottle, his head vet technician, said. "It was quite an experience to see." Tiki's follow-up exam on Wednesday showed the pet of the Weis family in Butler County is bouncing back quickly from her surgery last week. Tiki hadn't responded to medication to treat vomiting and diarrhoea and lack of appetite, then x-rays showed a mysterious mass in her stomach. Ibrahim, known as "Doctor I" to his patients, performed nearly two hours of exploratory surgery.
"And I found this hair band attached to another hair band to another one to another one and to other things again," Ibrahim said. "Four rubber bands, a Band-Aid, eight pairs of underwear and 62 hair bands is a lot to be in a dog's stomach, especially of Tiki's size," Cottle said. Removing it all was like a magician pulling a long string of scarves out of a hat. That's exactly what's going on. It was just amazing, and it's not easy. But, thank God, we were able to pull through, and Tiki's recovered very well," Ibrahim said.
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Sara Weiss recalled the most unusual thing Tiki, her family's pet, had ever eaten prior to this. "A nerf dart," which the dog swallowed but passed through its system without surgery, said Weiss. Ibrahim said he recently surgically removed 15 pacifiers from the stomach of a different dog, but he called Tiki's case "really amazing." "I was there for the pacifiers and many other different items but not something that big (as Tiki's collection)," Cottle said. Ibraham said he believed Tiki ate the items over course of a few days.
"'Doctor I' started pulling handfuls of different items out," Emily Cottle, his head vet technician, said. "It was quite an experience to see." Tiki's follow-up exam on Wednesday showed the pet of the Weis family in Butler County is bouncing back quickly from her surgery last week. Tiki hadn't responded to medication to treat vomiting and diarrhoea and lack of appetite, then x-rays showed a mysterious mass in her stomach. Ibrahim, known as "Doctor I" to his patients, performed nearly two hours of exploratory surgery.
"And I found this hair band attached to another hair band to another one to another one and to other things again," Ibrahim said. "Four rubber bands, a Band-Aid, eight pairs of underwear and 62 hair bands is a lot to be in a dog's stomach, especially of Tiki's size," Cottle said. Removing it all was like a magician pulling a long string of scarves out of a hat. That's exactly what's going on. It was just amazing, and it's not easy. But, thank God, we were able to pull through, and Tiki's recovered very well," Ibrahim said.
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Sara Weiss recalled the most unusual thing Tiki, her family's pet, had ever eaten prior to this. "A nerf dart," which the dog swallowed but passed through its system without surgery, said Weiss. Ibrahim said he recently surgically removed 15 pacifiers from the stomach of a different dog, but he called Tiki's case "really amazing." "I was there for the pacifiers and many other different items but not something that big (as Tiki's collection)," Cottle said. Ibraham said he believed Tiki ate the items over course of a few days.
Man pepper sprayed after 'monkey sex'
A Florida man and two tourists drank a bottle of vodka at a Key West home on Monday night.
They then had “monkey sex,” before a dispute erupted over payment for the alcohol, according to Key West police.
That dispute led to the Key West man claiming he was pepper sprayed by one of the tourists. There were no reported injuries and no arrests.
Incidentally, for anyone who is as uneducated as I was about these things, apparently “monkey sex” is “loud, wild and passionate fornication.”
They then had “monkey sex,” before a dispute erupted over payment for the alcohol, according to Key West police.
That dispute led to the Key West man claiming he was pepper sprayed by one of the tourists. There were no reported injuries and no arrests.
Incidentally, for anyone who is as uneducated as I was about these things, apparently “monkey sex” is “loud, wild and passionate fornication.”
Wife admits murdering husband with disposable barbecue
A Filipina woman has admitted to murdering her Norwegian husband by placing a smoking disposable grill in his bedroom while he slept.
The man then died from from carbon monoxide poisoning.
Rubirosa Irgens, 31, told a Norwegian court that she had been driven into a rage by 61-year-old Helge Ove Irgens on the night of the killing, resolving to asphyxiate him on impulse.
"The evening in question, the two had an argument and my client acted in a state of anger," Jannicke Keller-Fløystad, the woman's defence lawyer, said.
"The accused testified that her husband had treated her very badly over many years and that it peaked on the evening of the murder." The prosecution showed that in the three weeks running up to the murder on June 25 last year last year, Rubirosa Irgens carried out more than 250 internet searches related to effective methods of killing someone. Searches included: ‘How do you poison someone without getting caught’, ’Best poison to use to kill someone and not get caught’, and ’Can rat poison kill humans?’.
On the same day that she did the rat poison search, she also bought some, but does not appear to have used it on her husband. In court she claimed she had needed the poison because of a problem with vermin in their house. Regina Irgens, the daughter of the murdered man said that police had repeatedly refused to examine the suspect grill when they found it in their father's garage. “Among other things, I called the police and told them that I had found a disposable grill in the garage that was used, but that nothing had been barbecued on it," she said.
"The police did not want that grill. They said it wasn’t relevant, which is completely incomprehensible because at the time they knew that Dad had carbon monoxide poisoning, and they didn’t know what the source was,” Keller-Fløystad said that her client had admitted to researching killing methods on the internet whenever the couple had a row. ”My client explained that from time to time she went online to search for killing methods when the couple had a fight. She had been pondering the thought of taking both her own and her husband’s life, but she eventually decided not to. The day it happened, something escalated.”
"The accused testified that her husband had treated her very badly over many years and that it peaked on the evening of the murder." The prosecution showed that in the three weeks running up to the murder on June 25 last year last year, Rubirosa Irgens carried out more than 250 internet searches related to effective methods of killing someone. Searches included: ‘How do you poison someone without getting caught’, ’Best poison to use to kill someone and not get caught’, and ’Can rat poison kill humans?’.
On the same day that she did the rat poison search, she also bought some, but does not appear to have used it on her husband. In court she claimed she had needed the poison because of a problem with vermin in their house. Regina Irgens, the daughter of the murdered man said that police had repeatedly refused to examine the suspect grill when they found it in their father's garage. “Among other things, I called the police and told them that I had found a disposable grill in the garage that was used, but that nothing had been barbecued on it," she said.
"The police did not want that grill. They said it wasn’t relevant, which is completely incomprehensible because at the time they knew that Dad had carbon monoxide poisoning, and they didn’t know what the source was,” Keller-Fløystad said that her client had admitted to researching killing methods on the internet whenever the couple had a row. ”My client explained that from time to time she went online to search for killing methods when the couple had a fight. She had been pondering the thought of taking both her own and her husband’s life, but she eventually decided not to. The day it happened, something escalated.”
Schoolgirl unofficially breaks world record for the most gloves put on one hand in 60 seconds
The world record for the most gloves put on one hand in 60 seconds has been unofficially broken by a schoolgirl in Hull.
Winifred Holtby Academy said student Alishia Swain managed to put on 22 gloves in one minute.
The previous world record was set in March 2011 by New Zealander Alastair Galpin, who wore 13. The new record is still to be verified by the Guinness World Records, which could take up to three months.
Darren Gardiner, assistant principal at the school, said: "The students are delighted to be part of this Guinness World Record attempt - it's a fantastic opportunity to make history."
You can watch Alishia's potentially record-breaking feat here and here.
Winifred Holtby Academy said student Alishia Swain managed to put on 22 gloves in one minute.
The previous world record was set in March 2011 by New Zealander Alastair Galpin, who wore 13. The new record is still to be verified by the Guinness World Records, which could take up to three months.
Darren Gardiner, assistant principal at the school, said: "The students are delighted to be part of this Guinness World Record attempt - it's a fantastic opportunity to make history."
You can watch Alishia's potentially record-breaking feat here and here.
Police investigate reports of crocodile on the loose in Somerset stream
Police were alerted after a crocodile was apparently spotted in a stream between Clevedon and Kingston Seymour in Somerset.
A Clevedon resident's morning walk was interrupted when they noticed an unusual shape in the stream to the side of the road.
On closer inspection, the shape looked very much like a crocodile - and the walker snapped a photograph, saying: "It blinked at me."
The walker later emailed Avon and Somerset Police who asked for the picture to be a sent as a matter of urgency. They said they would analyse the picture and decide how to take action.
A Clevedon resident's morning walk was interrupted when they noticed an unusual shape in the stream to the side of the road.
On closer inspection, the shape looked very much like a crocodile - and the walker snapped a photograph, saying: "It blinked at me."
The walker later emailed Avon and Somerset Police who asked for the picture to be a sent as a matter of urgency. They said they would analyse the picture and decide how to take action.
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