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Camel Strays from Nativity Scene, Meets Death
February 6, 1998
A 600-pound camel that broke loose from a real-life nativity scene at a
Chester, Maryland church wound up a Christmas casualty on a nearby
highway. The Christmas pageant at the Kent Island
United Methodist Church was supposed to involve more than 200 people and
10 live animals, including Ernie the one-humped camel. Police said Ernie was
tied up at a trailer in the church yard just before the pageant, a
reenactment of Jesus' birth, was about to begin. But the frisky camel
mysteriously got loose, then wandered onto U.S. Route 50 and into the path
of a Volvo station wagon.
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Penn. Teen-ager Kills Deer with Bare Hands
February 6, 1998
It wasn't a typical road kill when an 18-year-old high school student killed a
deer with his bare hands but authorities said no charges would be filed. Brian
Krepp, a Cooperstown, Penns., high school student, killed the deer
with his bare hands after the animal was injured after jumping in front of the
car he was driving, Game Commission officials said. No charges will
be filed against Krepp and the deer was considered a road kill under state
classifications.
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Boy, 3, Turns in Dad Over Bag of Marijuana
February 6, 1998
A 3-year-old boy got his father arrested by handing police a bag of marijuana
from the family car after his father was stopped for speeding, officials said
Thursday. The unidentified boy, told the officers that the marijuana was "bad."
Police hailed the youth as a hero and presented him with a "junior officer"
badge in the town of Oxnard, Calif. "What he did was a good thing, I think
even his dad sees that," a spokesman said. The father, Keith Wallace, 25, had
been stopped for speeding Tuesday, when officers smelled alcohol on his
breath. While police issued a sobriety test, the boy produced the weed.
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Scots Sea Cat, Nelson, Braves Waves to Go Home
February 6, 1998
The pull of his island birth-place was irresistible for dogged sea-cat Nelson,
who braved 31 miles of rough seas to revisit his old haunts. Nelson stowed
away in a double-glazing van which the next day drove onto a ferry bound for
the exiled feline's former home on Westray, one of Scotland's far northern
Orkney isles. John Rogerson of the British Association of Pet Behaviour
Counsellors said Nelson's salt-sea odyssey must be more than coincidence.
"It is highly probable that the double-glazing van had the smell of the other
island on it and it reminded the cat of his old home," Rogerson said.
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Copenhagen Mermaid Loses its Head Again After 34 Years
February 5, 1998
Copenhagen's Little Mermaid statue was unveiled on her
harborside rock with her head sawed off by vandals, and it's now firmly back
in place and poised once more to face the tourists. No formal ceremony was
held, but a large crowd gathered along the waterfront as firemen removed
protective boarding to reveal the bronze statue restored to its original state.
The statue, Copenhagen's tourist icon and most famous landmark, was found
decapitated in the early hours of Jan. 6. 1998 It was the second such attack in 34
years. Three days later the Mermaid's severed head turned up in a box
outside a TV station.
UPDATE
TV cameraman charged with beheading Little Mermaid
A television cameraman has been arrested on charges of decapitating
Copenhagen's Little Mermaid statue in January, Danish police said on
Thursday. The cameraman was formally charged at a magistrates court of
causing malicious damage to public property and he faces up to three years
imprisonment, they said. Police said they arrested 31-year-old Michael
Forsmark Poulsen at the unveiling of the Little Mermaid on
her waterfront rock, with her head, sawn off by vandals a month ago, fully
restored. They said that they suspected that Poulsen performed the beheading
with the help of as yet unknown accomplices.
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Spaniard May Have Taken Prize Lotto Ticket to Grave
February 5, 1998
A Spanish man may have taken his winning lottery ticket with him to the
hereafter. Relatives of Juan Villasante Paz said in an interview published
Wednesday that they believed he had the ticket on him when he died of a
heart attack two hours before the draw, Jan. 26. Paz's niece told the daily El
Pais the family had been unable to find the winning ticket, worth five million
pesetas (US$32,500). Paz, 76, was buried in the same suit he was wearing
the day he bought the ticket in a bar, but the ticket was not among his
personal effects.
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Australian Camel Racing Saga of Beauty and Beast
February 5, 1998
Camels are not pretty, and racing them is hardly glamorous, but a group of
Australian women is hoping to change all that. The young women, with the
help of the United Arab Emirates' best camel handlers, plan to try to improve
the image of the obnoxious camel - an animal which spits and kicks and has a
body odor problem. The estimated 300,000 wild camels that roam the
Australian outback are regarded as pests and racing them is a novelty that
until recently boasted no financial prizes, just cans of beer. In a move to
change the sport's image, the Australian Camel Racing Association has
advertised for "attractive" female jockeys aged 18 to 25, amidst cries of
sexism.
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