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Sleeping in a river
As a forensic team pulled up alongside a river in lycoming, and
the woman who called them stood staring in shock, a man lay
face-down in the middle of the river. Just as the authorities
prepared to retrieve the body, with a massing crowd of locals
looking on, the middle-aged man sat up in the shallow river
and walked out of it. The man, whose name was Joseph De
Angelo, said that he simply fell asleep in the water while
watching the clouds.
The new
Indonesian rat
Scientists were trekking the mountains of the Indonesian island,
Sulawesi, when they spotted a peculiar looking rodent, the likes
of which they had never seen before. What they discovered when
they eventually caught the lithe creature, was that it had no teeth,
which makes it unique in the rodent family. What this means is that
rather then chewing on everything it comes across, like its common
Australian relatives, it sucks on worms to obtain vital nutrients. This
creature is totally unique from the rest of the expansive rodent
family, which makes up 40% of the mammalian family.
The week that was
WITH WIll crAmmond
Closing
slaughterhouses
Slaughterhouses in the middle of California’s agricultural hub
have been closed by the uS Department of Agriculture (uSDA)
for mistreating the cows during the slaughter process. The
violations were only really discovered when an activist group,
Compassion Over killing, put a video of the atrocity online.
The same slaughterhouse broke other uSDA regulations
when it slaughtered cows that were unable to stand on their
own, but had to be prompted forward with electrical prods.
This bears some resemblance to the case of the Indonesian
slaughterhouses earlier this year.
Toddler ‘Fight Club’
leads to arrests
Three American women have been charged with assault, among
other offences, after taping a fight between three-year-old
children who were in their care. What made it worse was the
fact that they filmed the fight, and in the video, they are caught
laughing about it and encouraging the fighting toddlers. The
license of the day care centre has also been suspended, as the
parents of the children involved who witnessed the fight on film
were shocked, angry and in disbelief.
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