Moose Licken'
There are plenty of reasons to exercise caution while driving in winter—and car-licking moose is apparently one of them. Parks Canada issued a post on Facebook, cautioning motorists not to stop and allow moose wandering the roadways to taste their cars.
Photo: Parks Canada
Even park officials agree that this is a weird one, but the explanation makes sence. Moose crave salt this time of year, and have learned that salted roads are a good source of the mineral. And salted roads means salt residue collects on cars, which tempts them to stop and take a lick. "It does sound very funny," says Tracy McKay of Parks Canada. "It's OK to laugh at it, as long as people drive responsibly and do what's best for the wildlife."
Moose, like other animals, get salt from their diets, and the warm weather plants that typically provide sodium in their diets, like lily pads, just are not available.
Dietary concerns aside, moose weigh up to 1,400 pounds, so colliding with one is dangerous for everyone involved, and prime moose collision season is winter-when. visibility is low and roads are slick. Now that moose know you may have a tasty fender, it's becoming more common to see them out—and stopping isn't always the best option. "If it's safe to keep going without running into the moose, then we would recommend people just try to slowly, carefully drive away," McKay says. "Just try not to let moose lick your car." newser.com
Authorities Seize Woman's Giraffe Poop at Minnesota Airport
Photo provided by U.S. Customs and Border Protection shows a small box of giraffe feces that was confiscated from a passenger arriving from Kenya at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. (U.S. Customs and Border Protection via AP)
Upon arrival at a Minnesota airport on September 29, a woman from Idaho told agriculture specialists from customs that she had the giraffe droppings, explaining that she'd made jewelry from moose feces before and planned to do the same with the giraffe excrement.
The woman had brought giraffe poop back from Kenya, and her dream of making a necklace from the dung was dashed when customs officials seized it instead. Instead, officials seized the poop and destroyed it using steam sterilization. Because she declared it rather than trying to smuggle it through customs, the woman won't face any punishment. newser.com
Pretty Sure I Bought That
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Let the lesson be - Scratch them all off. A tennessee man would tell you that is a very good idea.
When the customer came in to the gas station where Meer PAtel worked he bought 2 Diamond and Gold scratch-off tickets worth $20 each at a Murfreesboro, Tenn., gas station. To save time, instead of scratching off the game on the tickets, he only scratched the bar codes and asked Patel to check to see if they were winners.
Meer Patel, 23, scanned the tickets. Good news- one wof them was a winner. The ticket had a winning prize of $40, which Patel handed over to the winner. He dropped the other ticket into the trash.
But something only Patel knew made him very happy. The bar code scan told him this ticket was also a winner. A million doller winner.
The Tennessee Lottery requires any winner of a prize of $200,000 or more to claim their winnings at its Nashville headquarters.
However, employees were suspicious of Patel when he turned up with the winning ticket, police wrote. He went to the Tennessee Lottery Commission to claim the ticket as his own and through their normal line of questioning there were enough red flags for them to say, ‘Come back in a bit, we need to hold on to the ticket.’
What Patel didn't know, is that all big winners needed to be verified on video before winnings can be paid. Store video obtained by investigators at the Tennessee Lottery showed Patel scanning the tickets and dropping one into the trash. After the customer leaves the footage shows Patel fishes it out of the bin and puts it in his pocket.
“Mr. Patel is then seen later in the video celebrating in the store after scratching off the front of the ticket and learning it was a $1 million winner,” Det. Dennis Ward said in the news release.
Now, Patel remains in custody while he waits for his hearing later this month.
The good news, however, is that police were able to track down the money’s rightful owner and convince him to claim his winnings.
“The feel-good side of this story is the (man) never knew he was the winner until we made contact with him,” Craig said. “That is absolutely life-changing money.” globalnews.ca
