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Shannon Stevens, along with her brother, Erik, and his girlfriend,
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snowmobiled to Erik’s yurt in the backcountry near Haines, Alaska, on Feb. 13 and got the scare of a lifetime after she was attacked from below by a bear in an outhouse, the Associated Press reported.
Reuters reported on Feb. 24 that a wayward sheep found in a forest in Australia, has been shorn of the more than 77 pounds of fleece he was carrying and is now recovering at Edgar’s Mis- sion Farm Sanctuary near Lancefield, Victoria. Named Baarack by his rescuers, the sheepwas“inabitofabad way,” said the sanctuary’s Kyle Behrend.
Leslie Pilgrim of Hunting- ton Beach, California, waited more than two hours at the DMV in Laguna Hills in early February to get a REAL ID, an upgraded driver’s license that will be required for air- line travel starting in October.
“(A)t the end of the day, this is funny,” she said. “With all the things happening in the world right now, this is an incredibly minor inconve- nience.”
Erik heard his sister’s screams and went out to in- vestigate, opening the toilet seat to find “a bear face ... just looking right back up through the hole, right at me,” he said. He shut the lid and led Shannon back to the yurt, where they treated the wound on her buttocks with a first aid kit and determined
Staying compliant with COVID-19 safety rules, Pilgrim left her mask on throughout the process and was startled when officials took her photo while still wearing her mask, she told Fox 11. The clerk realized the error and took another photo, but when the new ID arrived in the mail, Pilgrim’s masked-up face was on the
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“Sheep need to be shorn at least annually, other- wise the fleece continues to grow and grow ... He was underweight and due to all the wool around his face he could barely see.”
Brandon Soules, 19, was arrested by police in Coolidge, Arizona, on Feb. 17, for falsely reporting to police that he had been kidnapped in an apparent scheme to get out of work.
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In other Weird reports:
On Feb. 10, police found
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