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Two arsonists were in the hot seat — and they hadn’t even been caught — after they set fire to a Bakersfield, California, immigration services build- ing on Jan. 2, Fox News re- ported. Footage from a Ring security camera captured the masked individuals as they spread gasoline around the building’s base. But when one bent to light the fire, the flames spread to both peo- ple’s clothes, causing them to run away screaming.
Arsonists Play With Fire, Totally Get Burned
The suspects are still at large.
“I think this case will go down in medical textbooks,” said Anton Gerashchenko, Ukraine’s internal affairs ministerial adviser.
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Guardian reported. The weapon lay just below the man’s heart, and two “sap- pers” (military engineer- ing soldiers) were on hand during the delicate operation to neutralize the device after it was removed. Doctors were unable to use electrocoagula- tion, a method that controls bleeding, because of fear that the grenade might detonate.
severe that responders could see the victim’s skull.”
admitted to consuming alco- hol, marijuana and fentanyl pills before the attack.
The suspect did not pro- vide investigators with a real name, but through fin- gerprints he was identified as Koryn Kraemer, 25, who had recently moved to the area from Georgia. He later
He was charged with as- sault in the second degree.
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No word about how the grenade ended up in the sol- dier’s chest cavity to begin with. He will now undergo rehabilitation.
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Fox On The Run
In Derbyshire, England, Phil and Jane Carter are used to seeing foxes on their lawn. But, the Telegraph reported, a Dec. 17 visitor to their garden caught their attention. Jane spotted a fox nosing around their turf looking for some- thing to eat while balancing on its front legs — the only legs it had — and yelled at her husband to come see it.
The Two-legged Fox Jumps Over The Humans’ Lawn
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said. “It stood bolt upright and ran like a human being on two legs.”
around for about 45 minutes before it took off “like a rock- et,” Phil said.
On Jan. 9 in Kyiv, Ukraine, a surgeon removed an un- exploded grenade from the chest cavity of a 28-year- old Ukrainian soldier, The
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Riders on the MAX light rail system in Gresham, Or- egon, witnessed a brutal as- sault around 2 a.m. on Jan. 3, KPTV reported. A 78-year- old man on the train platform was attacked by another man, who “chewed off the victim’s ear and part of his face,” po- lice said. “The injury was so
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He got in touch with ex- perts at the Derbyshire Nature Reserve, who told him the fox was likely born with the dis- ability and had learned to sur- vive. While foxes are usually shy, the special animal hung
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