Quirky World ... Sky’s the limit as wayward owl bags lift on helicopter
An exhausted owl was given a lift in a helicopter after flying more than 160km to an offshore oil rig.
The bird crash-landed on a North Sea platform, and was looked after by crew members who found him.
The short-eared owl was then flown back to land with departing workers and taken to the Scottish SPCA wildlife rescue centre in Fishcross, Alloa, Clackmannanshire, where he will be cared for until he is fit to return to the skies.
Centre manager Colin Seddon said: “The owl is doing great after his lengthy flight.”
Britons are becoming more and more adventurous when it comes to their bucket list wishes, according to research.
Top of the list of daring wish-list goals is trekking to the North Pole, followed by crossing the perilous Mount Hua Bridge in China, wing-walking, and driving along the Rohtang Pass in India.
The ranking was based on analysis of more than 1m goals on my50.com.
Indiana Jones led police on a chase that topped 100mph on a road in New York state.
The chase started when a 21-year-old man named Indiana Z Jones tried to evade a traffic stop in his hometown of Rushville, south-east of Rochester, according to Yates County Sheriff Ronald Spike.
The sheriff said spike strips were used to puncture Jones’s tyres after several miles, and he was taken into custody. The charges include unlawfully fleeing police, speeding, and having an unregistered, uninsured, and uninspected vehicle.
A deer apparently hit by a car took itself to a New York hospital and walked into the emergency room.
Hospital officials said the deer walked through the automatic doors at the entrance to Strong Memorial Hospital’s emergency room in Rochester on Monday afternoon.
The Monroe County sheriff’s office said two deputies happened to be at the hospital when the deer wandered in. They and hospital public safety officers strapped the animal to a trolley and wheeled it out to the car park. One of the deputies put down the deer.
An internationally known 85-year-old jewel thief has been arrested after she slipped a pricey pair of earrings into her pocket at an upmarket shopping mall in Atlanta.
A police report said Doris Payne, of Long Beach, California, stole a $690 (€620) pair of earrings at a mall in Atlanta’s Buckhead neighbourhood.
Police added that a store security guard saw Payne on surveillance video, and she was caught shortly after leaving the store. She faces a charge of theft by shoplifting and was booked into Fulton County jail. Police said she is wanted for a similar offence in North Carolina.
A Maryland police officer went undercover dressed as a homeless man to catch people who were using their phones while driving.
Corporal Patrick Robinson went undercover equipped with a police radio and a body camera. He held a sign that read: “I am not homeless. I am a Montgomery County police officer looking for cell phone texting violations.”
Montgomery County police sergeant Phillip Chapin and about eight other officers issued a total of 56 tickets county-wide that day, including 31 tickets and nine warnings to people caught using their phones without hands-free devices.
Chapin says authorities are seeing more distracted-driver-related deaths as a result of people using their phones while behind the wheel.
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