Weird But True

Weird but true

Here’s one Bambi story that did not delight children.

Chaos broke out in an Iowa middle school when a deer smashed through a glass door and went bounding through the hallways.

The desperate doe eventually scampered past 100 eighth-grade cheerleaders who were arriving for a clinic.

The kids ran screaming in fear until the deer hopped back through the broken door and ran off.

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Beware, snakes — a posse is coming for you.

Officials in Florida put out a call for people who want to go to the Everglades and shoot Burmese pythons, and more than 400 gun-slinger wannabes signed up!

The government is offering a $1,500 bounty for the latter day St. Patrick who removes the most of the nuisance snakes from the swamp.

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Three blind mice — see how they get their sight back through science!

The old nursery rhyme will never be the same after researchers in England restored the sight of totally blind mice by injecting light-sensing cells into their eyes.

The new procedure might be able to help cure blindness in some humans. One problem is that scientists still don’t know how much vision has been restored to the mice.

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In Nashville, cops are trying to crack a case of grand- theft statue.

Someone stole the 6-foot, 3-inch statue of respected African-American minister R.H. Boyd from outside the Tennessee city’s public library in early December.

Some initially suspected a hate crime, but now cops believe Boyd’s 400-pound metal likeness was chopped up and sold for scrap.

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This might be why California is always broke.

Smog regulators in the San Fernando Valley have spent $200,000 to install a “stink detector,” which can warn people if a bad smell is about to waft into the area from the nearby Salton Sea.