Alligator found in a swimming pool
A woman opened the door to her back yard in coastal Mississippi to find that a 5-foot alligator had taken up residence in her pool. Pam Jones opened her back door to let out her dog when she spotted the alligator in the pool. The animal was swimming around, then climbed out to sun itself. Jones got the dog inside, shut the door and called the Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks.
“Our pool motor went out and we’ve been waiting for the new one to come in,” Jones said. “The pool is green because of the motor being out. But it did get all of the frogs living in there.”
Wildlife officials told Jones that alligators frequently show up in neighborhoods after heavy rain. Master Sgt Barry Delcambre tried to prod the alligator, which retreated to the bottom of the pool. After five hours, they got it.
“I’m just glad it’s gone,” Jones said as she looked at the alligator resting in the back of the wildlife officials’ truck. “He’s kind of cute though, isn’t heIJ” Authorities said the alligator will be moved to an undisclosed location.
(AP)
World’s largest exercise class on Facebook
A Montana mom of eight has motivated millions of people to join her on a quest for a flatter tummy. Robyn Mendenhall Gardner posted a 30-Day Ab Challenge on Facebook hoping to coax a few other people to join in. The likes started pouring in right away. Within a week, nearly one million people were on board with the programme. Now the likes are up to 2.6 million and still climbing.
“I can’t come to everyone’s home or place of work and make them do these, so we all are going to have to work together to try and complete this entire challenge,” Gardner writes on her Facebook page.
The challenge, which started on June 1 and runs through the end of the month, consists of a series of sit-ups, crunches, leg raises and planks, all designed to strengthen the core muscles of the abs, waist and lower back. It sticks to a three-day-on, one-day-off cycle and gets progressively more challenging with each workout.
(Yahoo News)
Shooters call 911 after victim chases after them
Five teenagers decided to drive around some Santa Fe, New Mexico neighborhoods and shoot at random cars with BB guns. It would appear that they wound up shooting the wrong person’s car, though. A victim decided to chase the teens, scaring them so much that they called 911 for help. Police came right away and arrested the teens. The Santa Fe Police Department had been receiving complaints about vandals shooting at cars, so when they heard from the teenagers, they were already aware of the crimes they had committed. One of the teens, in the 911 call, told a dispatcher, “Every time we speed up, that car speeds up and tries to keep up with us.” When the police arrived, the teens admitted to what they had done and were subsequently arrested.
(Yahoo News)
Man drives across country with corpse
A Detroit-area man kept driving on a road trip from Arizona to Michigan even after he discovered that his front-seat passenger was dead, media reports said. The 62-year-old man told the police he touched the sleeping 31-year-old woman, whom he described as a friend, as he was driving through Oklahoma or Texas and found her cold, the Detroit Free Press reported, quoting the police.
The man told the police he kept driving because based on the Internet research he did on his phone, he thought he had 48 hours before he needed to take the woman to a morgue, according to the Free Press. Police said he should have immediately called for help.
Also travelling in the man’s 2004 Ford Econoline van was his 92-year-old mother, the Free Press said.
(Reuters)