Raccoon steals woman's wallet on Florida beach
FORT MYERS, Fla., Aug. 1 (UPI) -- A Florida woman said a raccoon tried to run off with her wallet while she was visiting the beach with her two daughters. Danielle Araica said she and her daughters were visiting Bunche Beach in Fort Myers to see a Kemp's Ridley sea turtle named Tampa Red make her expected return home Monday and they were all in the water when Araica spotted a raccoon rifling through her bag, WZVN-TV, Fort Myers, reported Thursday. "I saw the raccoon in my bag, so I start running like a crazy woman," Araica said.
Arairca said the raccoon ran off with her pink wallet in its mouth, but dropped it in some nearby woods.A young boy was able to recover the wallet and return it to Araica, she said."I have some scratches and holes on my wallet now, but it's back and its safe," Araica said.
'Bed of lies' put on Craigslist after bad breakup
An angry person in San Francisco is selling their mattress for $150 after a terrible breakup. The queen-sized bed is described as like sleeping on a cloud "even when you're unknowingly sleeping next to a lying cheater." The lengthy and profanity-filled ad has been flagged for removal from Craigslist, but in a posting on Jezebel the seller gives the mattress a better rating than their ex. "For 6-8 hours every night you'll forget that you're sleeping next to a sociopath. There are no stains, and this thing hasn't seen action in a while." The seller wasn't accepting lower offers, warning prospective buyers not to low ball.
Quebec poop painter says cops bullying him
MONTREAL - A Montreal artist says he has been bullied by Quebec provincial police for using feces to paint a portrait of a Superior Court judge. Nikolai Kupriakov created a portrait of Judge Claudine Roy, using the smelly technique, to protest her dismissal of his lawsuit against Quebec's ministry of culture. The native of Russia smeared feces on the canvas in front of the Montreal courthouse earlier this summer and later received a letter from police. Kupriakov was asked to undergo mental exams as part of a review of his gun license. Kupriakov said he owns several registered firearms and has been a shooting enthusiast since he was a child. He said police told him they were concerned that he was a threat to "his safety or that of others."
Googling for pressure cookers led to visit by cops
NEW YORK – A Long Island writer struggling to find a better way to cook lentils was visited by law enforcement agents after she and her husband ran Google searches on pressure cookers and backpacks, she wrote in a blog post. Those items were a deadly combination on April 15 at the Boston Marathon, when two brothers planted pressure cookers filled with explosives hidden in backpacks near the finish line, setting off blasts that killed three people and injured nearly 300 - in some cases, severing limbs.
For Michele Catalano, who wrote about her experience on the Medium.com website on Thursday, a day after the incident, the searches created "a perfect storm of terrorism profiling." Catalano also told her story to the Guardian newspaper on Thursday, but was not immediately available for an interview. "I had researched pressure cookers. My husband was looking for a backpack. And maybe in another time those two things together would have seemed innocuous, but we are in 'these times' now," Catalano wrote. The Suffolk County police department told a different story. In an email sent to reporters on Thursday, the police said criminal intelligence detectives got a tip from a computer company that a former employee had conducted suspicious searches on a workplace computer. The searches included "pressure cooker bombs" and "backpacks."
PETA "Lettuce Ladies" hand out veggie-dogs during their annual veggie-dog day on Capitol Hill.
PETA "Lettuce Ladies" Dana Watkins (L) and Jessica Greeves hand out veggie-dogs during their annual veggie-dog day on Capitol Hill on August 1, 2013 in Washington, D.C
