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April 4, 2019

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April 5 - A California man is turning heads on the state's roads and online with a customized jet ski modified to travel at motorcycle speeds on land. Nick Stemple said a friend's similar project inspired him vehicle, which features the body of a Sea-Doo jet ski but the wheels and engine of a Honda Elite motorcycle. "I love this thing! I've gotten rid of my other motorcycles. I ride this every single day," Stemple .



April 10 - A Taiwan woman suffering from a swollen eye went to a hospital where doctors found four minuscule bees living under her eyelid. Hung Chi-ting, the head of the ophthalmology department at Taiwan's Fooyin University Hospital, said he noticed what looked like insect legs under the woman's left eyelid and used a microscope to discover she had sweat bees, also known as halictidae, living next to her eye. The woman, identified by the surname He, said she thinks the insects...



April 10 - An Oregon sheriff's office said deputies responding to a report of a burglar locked in a resident's bathroom found an unusual suspect -- a vacuum cleaner. The deputies responded with a K9 unit when a woman called to report a burglar had locked themselves in her bathroom and she could see their shadow moving under the door. The department said deputies forced their way through the door with their guns drawn.



April 9 - The crosses on graves in an Italian cemetery in Pieve di Cento have been covered with black cloth so as not to offend those who may come from another religion. The cemetery, which is located in Bologna in a town of around 7,000 people, has also installed motorized blackout curtains in a local chapel following renovations to hide Roman Catholic symbols during ceremonies involving other denominations, Il Giornale reports. Following the reports of the coverings of the symbols...

April 4, 2019



April 2 - An Arizona puppy is recovering after being carried away by an owl and apparently dropped on a local golf course. Bonnie Ziegler, who is fostering the puppy, named Latte, and her three siblings for Foothills Animal Rescue, said the canine vanished during a bathroom break in her yard. "I didn't hear a sound and the other puppies didn't bark. It was as if she just vanished," Ziegler . "We immediately started searching and soon our neighbors joined in.



April 2 - Police in Pennsylvania said they were able to identify and arrest a burglary suspect when a stolen stove fell from the back of his pickup truck. North Huntingdon Police said officers responded to the Tuscan Hills Housing Plan on that matched the description of a truck believed to be connected to thefts in the area. A local resident was able to capture the truck's license plate on camera. Police said officers on their way to the scene received a report...



April 3 - A British animal rescuer rushed to a residential road in the middle of the night to rescue a loose "tarantula" that turned out to be a toy replica. The RSPCA said animal collection officer responded Saturday night to Northview Drive in Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, on a report of a tarantula loose in the street. "The call came in at 11:30 p.m. and I made it to the scene just after midnight," Harrington said. "The caller was walking home when they spotted the tarantula on the street.

March 28, 2019



March 26 - A Texas company's Whataburger-inspired customized gun is drawing attention from fans -- and drawing the ire of the fast food chain. HTX Tactical unveiled the Whata-Pistol, a customized gun painted in Whataburger's signature orange and white and bearing the burger chain's logo, . The gun's magazine is painted to resemble the eatery's French fry boxes. Javier Garcia, an employee at HTX Tactical, said he was inspired to create the custom firearm by a customer's Whataburger T-shirt.



March 27 - A Georgia golfer said he has spotted alligators on the course before, but nothing approaching the size of the massive gator he recently caught on camera. Ed Vance said he was Sunday at the Club at Savannah Harbor Golf Course on Hutchinson Island when they heard what they initially thought to be a groundskeeper in the rough near the 17th green. "When we saw the head come out of the brush, we knew it was something unique and special," Vance .



March 27 - Many elephants at the Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique, Africa, are lacking one distinguishable feature that elephants usually have: tusks. Researchers believe the heavy presence of poaching has led elephants here to evolve without tusks, so their human predators have no reason to kill them and . It's not natural selection that is causing elephants to evolve without tusks, says Ryan Long, a researcher who has studied the elephants...

March 21, 2019



March 20 - California police officers received a surprise confrontation after the driver who led them on a got out of his car and began to dance. The began on Highway 101 near Calabasas on Tuesday after the reckless driver failed to yield to commands to stop by California Highway Patrol officers, ABC Los Angeles station reported. The driver, going at a speed of about 60 mph, then led authorities north through the San Fernando Valley onto Interstate 405...



March 15 - A North Carolina thrift store's social media post is going viral after warning customers about a couple of "haunted" pieces of furniture. The Habitat for Humanity Restore of Rowan County posted photos showing a queen canopy bed frame and highboy chest of drawers that the previous owners said were haunted. The post included a photo of the note posted on the pieces: "Please note, previous owner reports that the highboy is haunted. He reports continuous nightmares for he...



March 15 - A Missouri man who heard a loud noise outside his home was shocked to discover his car had fallen through the floor of the garage. Willard Ralls said he was eating dinner before 4 p.m. Wednesday at his Kansas City home when he heard coming from his garage. "I thought maybe a vase fell off one of the tables in here, and I came out and saw my car sitting down in here. My immediate thing was to get the car keys for the other car sitting out there that was parked right here...



March 20 - A California man who was forced to lower his fence due to a neighbor's complaint is getting even with a display of mannequins having a "naked party." Jason Windus said he needed a high fence in his Santa Rosa yard to prevent his dogs from jumping the barrier and getting out, but to the city and he was told the fence was a zoning violation and needed to be lowered. Windus lowered the fence to the allowed maximum of 36 inches, but filled his now-visible yard...



March 20 - Wildlife officials in Georgia are asking residents to keep an eye out for large South American lizards spotted in the area. The Georgia Department of Natural Resources said Argentine black and white tegus have been spotted in Toombs and Tattnall Counties, where the South American reptiles are not native but are legal to keep as pets. "Things like this with the Tegus I think the pet owners - the novelty wears off or they also realize that they require a lot of food and a lot of space...

March 14, 2019



March 11 - A Florida man going to church with his family captured video of a bizarre sight on the highway: a camel dancing in the back of a bus. Matt Austin, an anchor , said his wife, Tricia, was driving the vehicle about 11 a.m. Sunday when his daughters, Addison, Lulu and Sawyer, started shouting about a dancing camel. Austin, who posted video of the encounter , said he didn't believe them until he looked up and saw it for himself. "We seriously see not only the camel...



March 11 - A Nebraska state trooper captured video of an unusual sight in the middle of the road: an entire car made of snow. The said Sgt. Mick Downing was driving in Chadron when he came across the unusual sculpture, which he compared to a Ford Mustang. "What in the heck," Downing says in the video. "Some people make snow men. Not the people in the northwest corner of the panhandle. They make snow cars. Snow Mustangs." The faux-car has what appears...



March 12 - A shocked traveler on a Texas highway captured video of a horse riding in the back of a pickup truck with the tailgate down. Ami Parbs said she was taking her 12-year-old daughter to a gymnastics meet the unusual video on U.S. 59 in the Corrigan area. the horse riding in the back of the pickup with someone in the cab apparently holding the animal's reigns through the rear window. Parbs said the truck eventually pulled into a Whataburger parking...



March 12 - A British Columbia golfer captured video of an eagle that helped him transform a decent shot into a hole-in-one. The golfer said he was playing his first round of the season at a Vancouver-area course when an eagle landed on the green of the second hole and started toying with his ball. The video shows the eagle toying with the ball before finally dropping it into the hole. "Despite the rules of golf saying I need to replace it (which I did and missed the putt), this will still go down as my...



March 13 - Regulars at a Florida golf course have reported sightings of an unusual new resident: a crocodile among the course's alligators. The Sanibel Island Golf Club posted a photo showing the American crocodile summing itself just feet away from one of the alligators known to frequent the course. "The crocodile is here all the time, she hangs out on hole No. 11, and she's a female," Mary Donnelly, wife of course owner Drew Donnelly, told the Naples Daily News.



March 13 - A group of thieves stole a painting by Flemish artist Pieter Brueghel the Younger from an Italian church Wednesday, but not before police replaced the $3.4 million artwork with a fake. The thieves stole a copy of the 17th century painting, titled Crucifixion, from Santa Maria Maddalena church in the small Northern Italian town of Castelnuovo Magra. Hours after the theft, local police revealed they caught wind of the planned theft ahead of time and swapped out the original painting with a fake.



March 13 - A Pennsylvania man named Sober was arrested for...well, you know where this is going. Daniel Sober, 44, was busted Saturday evening for drunk driving following a police stop near his home in Lower Burrell, a Pittsburgh suburb. A breath test, cops say, recorded Sober’s blood alcohol content at .194, more than twice the legal limit. Sober, pictured at right, was charged with drunk driving and careless driving, according to court records. After being booked, Sober was released...

February 21, 2019



February 20 - An Amazon driver stole a family’s $1,046 pet schnauzer as he delivered dog food to their home. Levi Pislea, 22, snatched Wilma the puppy when he visited Richard Guttfield’s house in Marsworth, Bucks. Guttfield and his family were so devastated they even contacted billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos – before UK staff stepped in and tracked the rogue deliveryman down. Pislea had stashed Wilma the schnauzer at a property in Barnet, North London.



February 19 - A Florida man captured a reptile battle royal on camera when he came across a fight between an alligator and a python. Rich Kruger posted a video showing the face-off between the large alligator and the Burmese python, which Kruger estimated was more than 10 feet long. Kruger said the battle occurred at the Shark Valley Visitor Center in Everglades National Park. The video shows the alligator come out victorious in the confrontation and make the invasive python into a meal.



February 19 - A Kentucky woman whose package was taken from her porch reviewed security camera footage and identified the unexpected culprits -- her own dogs. Ashley Craig Hymer said she ordered a package from and began to grow suspicious when it never showed up. Hymer reviewed security camera footage and discovered the thieves were her own 3-month-old Labrador puppies, Ocoee and Denali. She said the dogs took the package to the side of the house, where she was able to recover it.



February 21 - Animal rescuers in Britain responded to a home where they removed a snake that had turned blue from cleaning products inside a toilet. The RSPCA said a family renovating the home they just purchased in Basildon, England, discovered there was a snake in the bathroom when the reptile knocked over a lit candle. An animal collection officer was dispatched to the scene and the family directed him to the toilet, where the snake had taken up residence in the tank.