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Staff at the El Paso Zoo in Texas are preparing to press charges against
Woman Fired After Flamin’ Hot Monkey Business
a woman who jumped into a spider monkey exhibit on May 22 and fed Flamin’ Hot Cheetos to the animals, El Paso Times reported.
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Wagging The Tail
The Tail Co., based in the United Kingdom, is start- ing production of its newest offering, miTail — a Blue- tooth-enabled animatronic tail that wearers can control with a phone app, Nerdist reported on May 13. For ex- ample, a wearer might want to express emotions such as “frustrated and tense” or “calm and relaxed.” Oth- er moves include the Short Wag, the Happy Wag and the Erect Tremble.
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Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Porcupine Plain, Saskatchewan, had a mystery on their hands on May 7 when someone reported a load of fence posts missing, RCMP reported on its website.
said beavers but they were GOA (gone on arrival).”
Burn Notice
When Lee Bowman’s neighbors in Sioux City, Iowa, failed to mow his lawn by the afternoon of May 23, after he had asked them to, he visited their home to complain, then tried to peel a registration sticker off one of their vehi- cle license plates. Some time later, however, police and firefighters were called to the neighbors’ home, which was on fire. Investigators found a pile of sticks and plywood piled against the side of the house and evidence that gas
Zookeepers found out about the stunt through Insta- gram, where someone posted video of the woman under- neath a waterfall, with the monkeys just feet away.
Officers opened an inves- tigation, but the “bucktooth bandits” were quickly identi- fied: “The stolen goods were located in a beaver dam,” said Constable Conrad Rickards. “A beaver — or beavers — helped themselves to the stash of posts and used them to help build a dam. I tried locating
“This young lady decided to hop a fence, climb through some bushes, drop down into a 4-feet-deep moat, walk across the moat and then try to feed the spider monkeys,” zoo director Joe Montisano said. “It was stupid. She’s very fortunate that it didn’t have a worse outcome for her or the animals.”
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Desrocher said snail mucus contains molecules of colla- gen and elastin, which have
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While the woman hasn’t been named, her employer, Lovett Law Firm, recognized her and she was fired from her job there.
In other Weird happenings:
Clean New Scene
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When Damien Desrocher, 28, decided to “return to na- ture” in December, it meant leaving his job as an air force computer technician and moving to the northern French town of Wahagnies, where he started raising snails. But they’re not for eating, Reuters reported.
Desrocher harvests “slime” from the snails and uses it to make bars of soap. A single snail will yield about 2 grams of slime. Desrocher needs about 80 grams of slime to make 15 100-gram soap bars.
“It’s all in the dexterity of how you tickle,” he said as he demonstrated the harvesting
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