Careful what you eat!

Man dies after bug-eating contest

A feast of cockroaches and worms was the last meal for the winner of a bug-eating contest.



Edward Archbold, 32, of West Palm Beach, was "the life of the party," stuffing handfuls of insects into his mouth with about 30 other contestants vying for the grand prize of an $800 python at the Ben Siegel Reptile Store, Broward Sheriff's investigators said.



Shortly after the contest was over, Archbold wasn't feeling well and began to regurgitate. He collapsed outside the store and later died at a hospital, investigators said.



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Dog Survives 11-Mile Ride Wedged in Car's Grille

This Sept. 20, 2012 photo p[rovided by the East Providence, R.I., Animal
Control Center shows a female poodle mix that animal control officers
removed from under a car's front grill. The dog survived an 11-mile ride
from Taunton, Mass., to East Providence after darting into the street.
The driver slammed on the brakes, but didn't see the dog and continued
driving. Authorities are trying to locate the dog's owner.

AP Photo/East Providence Animal Control Center

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eEEuuuuwwwww ......

70-year-old Oregon farmer eaten by his hogs

On Wednesday morning, Terry V. Garner, a 70-year-old Oregon farmer, went
to feed his animals. Several hours later, when he hadn’t returned, a
family member went to look for him and found, on the ground of the hog
enclosure, his dentures.   

Further investigation of the enclosure by the
family member revealed that the hogs, which each weighed about 700
pounds, had nearly completely eaten the farmer, although some body parts
were strewn about the enclosure.

Now the Coos
County Sheriff’s Office is investigating how Garner “ended up in a
position where the hogs were able to consume him.”

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Teddy bears vs Belarus air defense

Teddy bears win!

Belarus' authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko
has sacked two of the nation's top defense officials after two Swedish
advertising agency employees piloted a light plane into the country's
heavily guarded airspace, dropping 879 teddy bears decked out in
parachutes and slogans supporting human rights.



Lukashenko has ruled Belarus, a nation of 10 million, since 1994,
stifling dissent and independent media. He also has boasted about the
capabilities of a joint air defense system that Belarus has formed with
Russia.



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Chihuahua finds 2 girls lost in Georgia forest

NEWNAN, Ga. - A Chihuahua is being hailed as a hero after authorities
say it sniffed out two girls who were lost in a Georgia forest.



 The girls, ages 5 and 8, disappeared Monday for a couple of hours when
they were walking on trails near their neighborhood about 30 miles
southwest of Atlanta.
As police and firefighters began to search for the girls, neighbor
Carvin Young grabbed his 3-year-old Chihuahua, Bell, and joined the search.



The children play with Bell almost every day, and the dog is very familiar with them. Bell picked up the girls' scent and began running until she reached them.



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Bees Delay Flight At Pittsburgh International Airport

A beekeeper  had to be called into gather up a swarm of thousands
of bees that delayed a Delta Air Lines flight from Pittsburgh
International Airport to New York on Wednesday. The bees gathered on the wing of the plan as crews were getting ready to fuel the plane.



 Swarms of bees are actually nothing new at the airport. Last May, 25,000 to 30,000 landed on the Taxiway-C light. Such swarms form when colonies become too large and the queen leaves
half of her bees behind to find a new home.



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Man accidentally shot himself trying to kill mouse

A Canadian man accidentally shot himself in the forehead while trying to kill a mouse with the butt of his rifle.

The
man was reportedly intending to crush the rodent with the weapon at a
camp on Anjigami Lake in Ontario, but didn't know the gun was loaded.

As such he got quite a shock when the gun fired, with the bullet grazing his forehead but luckily not causing too much damage.







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500 dead penguins washed up on Brazilian beaches

Brazilian scientists are investigating what has led to more than 500 dead penguins being found on beaches in the last week.




Autopsies are being carried out on some of the birds, which washed up
on the beaches of Rio Grande do Sul state, in the south of the country.




Biologists at the Centre of Coastal and Marine Studies said the
penguins appeared to have been well-fed, with no apparent injuries and
no oil on their bodies.




Similar incidents in the past have been blamed on shifting ocean currents and colder temperatures.



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"The dog ate it." Really? Really??

A police department in Washington state is under fire after an officer
took home seized marijuana, only to report his dog ate the weed.

The
Soap Lake Police Department, in eastern Washington, has been accused of
numerous other instances of mishandling evidence as well.



 Evidence was improperly tagged and placed in insecure areas, according
to the investigation. In one case, a rape kit was found in a
refrigerator next to the police chief's lunch.



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115 years is long enough

The world's oldest animal marriage looks set to have ended after
an incredible 115 years when the two Giant Turtles at an Austrian  zoo
refused to share their cage anymore.



Bibi and Poldi have been a pair since before anyone alive today can
remember - they have been together at the Austrian zoo in Klagenfurt for
36 years and before that they lived at Basel zoo in Switzerland.



They are both 115 years old - they have been together since they were young and grew up together, eventually becoming a pair.



 Zoo staff realised the pair had fallen out after Bibi attacked her
partner - biting off a chunk of his shell - and then carrying out
several further attacks until he was moved to another enclosure.



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Sheep Rain on Cars

A truck carrying around 400 sheep overturned on a highway overpass
in southern Australia, causing the animals to rain onto the freeway
below.



Police say the sheep fell onto the Princess Highway outside Melbourne on
Thursday night after the truck crashed and flipped on its side, causing
it to hang precariously from the overpass.







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