Quirky World ... Wolverine meets his nemesis: Airport security
The 18kg male European wolverine was travelling to the Alaska Wildlife Conservation Centre in Portage, said Joe Pentangelo, a spokesman for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey police. A worker noticed the animal had chewed a hole in his metal carrier as it was being carried in a transport van.
When the animal baulked at being moved to another carrier, a Bronx Zoo veterinarian was called in to inject him with a tranquiliser and help relocate him to a more secure carrier.
“He was agitated,” said Pentangelo, noting the drugs made the animal docile enough to get him into the carrier and ready for a flight that departed early the next morning.
Wolverines are large members of the weasel family, native to isolated Arctic and alpine areas such as Alaska and Scandinavia. In winter, they primarily scavenge on dead animals. Their reputation for ferocity and strength inspired Wolverine of the X-Men comic book and movie series.
People may need to rethink what they believe is old as researchers have suggested that 60 is the new middle age.
The claim is made by Dr Sergei Scherbov, the world population programme deputy director at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Austria, who worked on a study of future population projections for Europe up to the year 2050.
The study, led by Prof Warren Sanderson, of Stony Brook University in the US, notes that if old age is fixed at a certain point, the proportion of old people will rise because of increasing life expectancy.
A drone sent into the chimpanzee enclosure of a zoo was bashed out of the sky by one of its inhabitants.
Female chimp Tushi, 23, waited in a tree at the Royal Burgers’ Zoo in Arnhem when the unfamiliar intruder flew in. She sent it crashing to the ground with two whacks from a long branch.
Zoo spokesman Bas Lukkenaar said: “We can write the drone off. It cost about €2,000. Then again, it doesn’t surprise us that Tushi did this. She is very handy with sticks.”
Crocs plastic shoes left tread marks that helped link a 22-year-old Fairbanks man to burglaries.
The owner of a building where break-ins occurred provided surveillance footage to police, who posted it on the department’s Facebook page. Roland Huntington Grace’s name was among several mentioned by tipsters. Grace wore Crocs during a police interview, and the shoes matched the tread pattern found at the scene.
Grace faces charges of burglary, theft, and criminal mischief in connection with the burglaries.
Authorities say the hunt for a 3m-high metal rooster stolen from outside a business in Athens, Georgia, has ended in a forest, where Rocket the Rusty Roster was discovered under a pile of wood.
Lexington Village owner Bonnie Harris said she was grateful the sculpture had been found in one piece, but it was missing an eye and his beard was gone. Harris said Rocket would undergo restoration work in the artist’s studio where it was created.
In late March, the 135kg sculpture was stolen about two weeks after it was installed in front of Harris’ store.
Police say a Long Island man set his rental car ablaze while trying to kill bedbugs inside the vehicle.
Scott Kemery suffered first- and second-degree burns in the incident. He poured alcohol over the insects, then sat in the car and lit a cigarette, setting off the blaze. He fled the vehicle on his own.
Detective Sergeant Edward Fitzgerald said that someone told Kemery that if he saturated the bedbugs with alcohol it would kill them.
Police say a suspect in a Pennsylvania off-licence stick-up tripped himself up by leaving fingerprints on a whiskey bottle before pulling a gun and telling a cashier he was robbing the place to help his children.
Pedro Ewing is charged with robbery, retail theft, and other offences in the April 3 hold-up at a state-owned store in Wilkes Barre Township.
Police say Ewing left his booze clues when he put a $32 (€29.80) fifth of Gentleman Jack whiskey back on a shelf, swiping a $60 half-gallon bottle instead.
Police say Ewing pulled a gun on the clerk and got away with $82.
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