Fish Flambe, S’il Vous Plait
Fire investigators in British Columbia, Canada, discovered an unlikely culprit in a brush fire that knocked out power in the town of Ashcroft on July 30: a hungry osprey. Ashcroft Fire Rescue posted on social media that the peckish avian pulled a large fish from a river about two miles away, but as it labored to fly with its super-sized meal in the July heat, it became tired and eventually dropped the fish… directly onto a power line, which sparked the blaze in the dry grass below. NBC Bay Area reported that it took about 4,800 gallons of water to stop the fire—quite a lot of trouble over a bird whose eyes were bigger than its stomach. “Another suspicion could be that it’s tired of raw fish and wanted to give cooked a try,” the post from Ashcroft Fire Rescue said.
Ewwwww!
Leanna Coy, a flight attendant based in Connecticut, couldn’t help but share the yuck factor after she made a discovery on the floor of a plane, the New York Post reported on July 24. “Those are toenails,” she captioned a TikTok post. “The passenger clipped their toenails mid-flight and left them.” Commenters had no empathy for the long-in-the-toenail flyer: “No-fly list!” said one. “What dirtbag did this?” asked another.
Crime Report
Everyone should be trying to move to East Greenbush, New York, where police have been busy chasing down the community’s hardened criminals, WNYT-TV reported on Aug. 11. Officers have received multiple reports of juveniles playing “ding-dong-ditch” during overnight hours, they said. They called such aberrant behavior disruptive and a violation of state law. Police said if the kids are caught, their antics could lead to charges of harassment, trespassing and disorderly conduct. Zillow, here we come!
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