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Animals: Drunken elk stuck in apple tree
(from BBC News - 13 September 2011)
The elk was apparently searching for fermenting apples when she got stuck
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Animals: Kitten survives hour in Aberdeen washing machine spin
(from BBC News - 05 August 2011)
An eight-week-old kitten has survived after being stuck in a washing machine cycle for an hour in Aberdeen.
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Legal: Jail guard guilty of serving up hacksaw blade
(No user rating) (from Reuters - 28 July 2011)In old movies, the inmate usually got a hacksaw blade secreted into his cell baked in a cake. But in Texas, it came in a soft taco.
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Odds and ends: Take the Slide, Instead of the Stairs
(from designtaxi.com - 14 July 2011)
A public slide for commuters has been constructed at a train station in Utrecht, the Netherlands.
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Odds and ends: Look at skim go
(from The Sun - 12 July 2011)
IT looks like a miracle of biblical proportions as a man runs across the waves.
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Animals: Crocodile swallows mobile phone
(from http://www.telegraph.co.uk - 21 February 2011)
Staff at an Aquarium in eastern Ukraine did not believe a colleague when she reported that a crocodile had swallowed her mobile phone
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Animals: Jack of ball trades
(from TheSun.co.uk - 21 January 2011)
When a man's three-month-old pup Tilly found a golf ball hidden in woodland he took it home planning to use it himself. Then the Jack Russell started to bring them back whenever he took her for a walk - and in the five years since her first find she has amassed a staggering 18,000.
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Animals: Boy donates pet turtle to zoo and watches it get eaten alive by alligator
(from News.com - 29 November 2010)
A FLORIDA boy remained distraught after watching an alligator feast on his pet turtle when he donated it to a local aquarium park, the Pensacola News Journal reported overnight.
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Money: Property developer bricks up bank
(No user rating) (from Bridging and Commercial - 29 September 2010)A property developer from Dorset has protested against the high street banks’ lack of lending to SMEs by building a brick wall over the entrance to a branch of Barclays.
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At Sea: Moelfre lifeboat crew rescues wheelie bin
(from http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-11268644 - 21 September 2010)
Lifeboat crews have made an unusual rescue off the coast of Anglesey - an 81-year-old man and a wheelie bin.
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