It’s for the birds!
Suburban Seattle relocated the launchpad of its July Fourth fireworks display to avoid startling a pair of baby bald eagles nesting in a tree on the shore of Lake Washington.
The pint-sized national symbols, still too young to fly, might have been frightened by the pyrotechnics and plunge from their nest — leaving them vulnerable to predators.
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His eternal journey has begun.
A North Carolina man saw his dying wish come true this weekend when he hosted an international conference on UFOs.
Kent Senter, 59, who has terminal multiple myeloma, a cancer that attacks bone marrow, organized the Symposium on Official and Scientific Investigations of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena in Greensboro.“I would love to have gone to college and taken physics,” lamented Senter.
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He couldn’t handle the deer departed.
A cop in Richmond, Ind., responding to a car accident that mortally wounded a fawn was so distraught at the sad scene that he gave his gun to a civilian to put Bambi out of its misery.
He’s now in hot water because he couldn’t face the sad situation like a man — and because he handed the weapon to a stranger.
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An Ontario, Canada, man drove a stolen car to his sentencing — and was handed an additional 10 months in the clink.
Jorden Morin, 25, claims the stress of his forthcoming “intermittent” sentence, rather than serving time in one swoop, prompted him to boost the vehicle.
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Too much, too soon?
Six German schoolkids ages 11 and 12, fainted during sex-ed class last week.
They were asked to color pictures of sexual organs while learning about human reproduction, but when when one kid with circulation problems fainted, others began hyperventilating and passed out.
They were uninjured.