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Don’t mess with a man’s sprinkles. The owner of a U.K. bakery went viral for ranting about regulations that are cutting into his bread and butter — or rather his cake and frosting.
Baker Won’t Budge On Contraband Sprinkles
to begin his search for a mate once he’s rested and built up some blubber for the trek.
Enjoy The Ride
quilize it and remove the tire — which had 10 pounds of debris inside it — after removing the elk’s antlers.
Rich Myers, 32, of Leeds, can no longer sell his most popular items because they featured “illegal sprinkles” imported from the United States. The sprinkles con- tained an additive called E127, which has been linked to “hyperactivity disorders and tumors in rats,” reports the Daily Mirror. An anon- ymous customer tipped off West Yorkshire Trading Stan- dards, the local regulatory agency, about the infraction.
Bus driver shortages have caused problems across the United States as students have returned to in-person learning, but when Ohio dad Sean Rogers Jr. saw his kids and their friends lacking transportation to school, he decided to take matters into his own hands. He borrowed a limousine from his father’s limo company and is using the stretch ride to take kids to school in style.
“We would have preferred to cut the tire and leave the antlers for his rutting activity, but the situation was dynam- ic and we had to just get the tire off in any way possible,” CPW officer Scott Murdoch said.
Myers swears he won’t switch to the approved sprin- kles from his home country, claiming they don’t hold their colors during the baking pro- cess.
Armed and Dumb
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“I’m going to continue todowhatIcandotohelp these families get their kids to school,” Rogers Jr. told Fox News. “If it gets to the point where, you know, the limo is not enough, then I would definitely pull a charter bus out and we’ ll go from there.”
One Person’s Junk
Go take a closer look at your garden gnomes: A Sud- bury, England, couple was unknowingly using artifacts from ancient Egypt to dec- orate their garden. The pair of small sphinx statues went up for auction as the cou- ple cleared out their home before a move. The couple had bought them at another auction 15 years prior, think- ing they were 18th-century replicas, and expected to get a few hundred dollars for them. But when prospective buyers suggested the items could be actual Egyptian rel- ics, bidding took off. An in- ternational art gallery ended up paying $265,510 for the sphinx statues.
“If I can’t use (the imported sprinkles), I won’t use any,” he said. “I will be on sprinkle strike and won’t budge for no man.”
lowed another person to shoot him as he wore one.
mestic dispute during which Thomas threatened his moth- er, Thomas climbed out of a second-story window and onto his roof. He then leapt from the roof into a 30-foot spruce tree, where he spent two uncomfortable nights. According to Fox 5 NY, a ne- gotiator was ultimately able to talk Thomas into leaving his perch.
after touring the coasts of Spain, France and the U.K. was feared dead after he dis- appeared from West Cork, Ireland, in late August. But fans of Wally the walrus can breathe easy: The Indepen- dent reports that the intrepid wanderer was recently spot- ted off the coast of Iceland.
Pain In The Neck
The contraband goodies aren’t exactly hard to come by, he added: “We buy them from a shop in London, so it’s not like we’ re getting them from a cocaine haulage in Mexico.”
“Something like this is definitely not a good idea,” Ohrn said. “A bulletproof vest is not a catchall. Also, it is still a crime to shoot an- other person, even if they tell you to.”
For the last two years, Colorado Parks and Wild- life officials have been wit- ness to a bizarre wildlife sighting: a bull elk roaming the wilderness with a tire around its neck.
Auctioneer James Mander said the gallery owners deter- mined the items are indeed authentic, although more study is needed to determine their exact age and prove- nance.
In other Weird reports:
Out On A Limb
Wally became famous for launching himself onto the decks of (empty, docked) boats, sinking several, as he stopped in various Euro- pean harbors to rest during his travels. Wildlife organi- zations even created special pontoon “couches” for him to nap on. Wally appears to be in good health and is expected to make his way to the Arctic
CNN reported that CPW officials had been moni- toring the elk since it was first spotted in July 2019, and though the tire did not impede the animal from drinking or feeding, they grew concerned that the tire might get tangled in branch- es, fencing or the antlers of another elk.
Not So Bulletproof
An unnamed man in Jack- sonville, Illinois, went to the hospital on Sept. 25 with a gunshot wound, the Journal Courier reported. The vic- tim told Cass County Sheriff Devron Ohrn that he and fam- ily members had been testing bulletproof vests, and he al-
A police standoff that be- gan on Oct. 6 finally came to an end more than 48 hours later, as a man wanted in con- nection with an assault case climbed down from the tree he had taken refuge in.
Thomas, who had a warrant out for his arrest for alleged- ly punching his girlfriend on Sept. 30, surrendered to po- lice and was sent to a hospital for evaluation.
“I wonder where they’ve been for the last 5,000 years,” Mander said.
When police arrived at the Queens, New York, home of Roody Thomas, 44, in re- sponse to a call about a do-
Where’s Wally?
CPW officers received a community tip on the elk’s whereabouts on Oct. 9 and were finally able to tran-
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An Arctic walrus who found fame this summer
The elk is expected to make a full recovery.