The Pigeon Express
An exhausted elephant has reportedly ripped his owner in half using his tusks in the Thai province of Phang Nga after being forced to work under hot weather. Officers from Takua Thung Police Station responded to a call about the elephant owner’s death at around 11:30am on Wednesday at a rubber plantation in the Tha […]
Two pilots fell asleep at 37,000ft, missing an airport runway before waking to safely land the plane, an aviation publication says. Air traffic tried to contact them after they overshot the point of descent into Ethiopia’s Addis Ababa airport. The pilots eventually woke up and landed the plane on its second approach, the Aviation Herald […]
An Indian gang operated a fake police station from a hotel for eight months where they dressed up as officers and are believed to have extorted money from hundreds of people, an official has said. Incidents of fraudsters pretending to be police or soldiers are common in India, where there is widespread fear of and […]
A Texas man is facing charges for allegedly killing his father-in-law by headbutting him at a local bar. According to the incident report, the Fort Worth Police Department was called to Woody’s Tavern at approximately midnight after a fight broke out between John Birdwell, 38, and Robert Bearden, 66. Birdwell was talking to his wife’s […]
A curious young seal has been returned to the sea after breaking into a New Zealand home, harassing the resident cat, hanging about in the hallway for a couple of hours while the children slept upstairs, and miraculously ruining nothing. The Ross family of Mt Maunganui were more than a little surprised to find the […]
Two people were spotted surfing in a canal in Venice, Italy and the mayor was not happy about it. In a Facebook post, Mayor Luigi Brugnaro shared a video of the surfers, calling them idiots and saying he would buy dinner for whoever finds them. Several other videos of the two surfers, cruising through Venice’s […]
A two-year-old girl in Turkey killed a snake by biting it to death, after the snake reportedly attacked her lip. The incident happened in the village of Kantar, near Bingol, a city in Eastern Turkey. According to the little girl’s father Mehmet Ercan, she was playing with the snake when it attacked her and she […]
A medical journal has published evidence of the first suspected case of human-to-pet transmission of the monkeypox virus. A dog living with two men in France who were infected with the virus began exhibiting symptoms 12 days after they did, according to The Lancet. The 4-year-old male Italian greyhound, which had no previous medical disorders, […]
A monkey at a zoo in California called police last week after it found the zoo’s cellphone and somehow managed to dial 911. The San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Office said it received a 911 call that disconnected. And when dispatchers attempted to call the number back, nobody picked up. Deputies were then sent to […]
The oldest penguin in Edinburgh zoo has been killed after a fox broke into its enclosure, staff have announced. Mrs Wolowitz, 35, a northern rockhopper with a “massive personality”, was attacked late on Wednesday. Other penguins in the enclosure were not hurt and were doing well, the zoo added. The zoo in a tweet said: […]
A woman had to put down her beloved four dogs because a rescue she was fostering exposed them to an extremely rare disease. Wendy Hayes, 61, decided to take in Moosha, believed to be a German Shepherd cross, from a rescue company which helps strays from Ukraine and Belarus, but later contracted the illness herself. […]
A mum and her two children have been attacked by a dog, with the supposed owner arrested for allegedly assaulting a third child. One onlooker reportedly claimed they saw a woman and two boys ‘covered in blood and bite marks’ following the ‘domestic’ incident in Derbyshire, England. The mother, in her 20s, is said to […]