Did you hear about this? New York police are on the lookout for a missing dinosaur, last seen over the weekend in an affluent Long Island suburb. Dinosaurs like the rich life don’t you know?

The life-size fiberglass replica of a carnivorous Deinonychus went missing from a local festival.

“It’s a very unusual theft, and because of that, we’re hoping the public will spot it somewhere,” said police detective Lieutenant John May. The report said that someone had sawn through a metal pole attaching the three-meter-long (10-foot-long) model to a trailer. I’m sure no one would miss it if they saw it considering how big it is.

“You’d definitely notice it, if someone rode by with it,” said Cindy Smith, spokeswoman for the Oyster Bay Festival.

There doesn’t seem to be any reports that the dinosaur is armed and dangerous - just missing. Must be a friendly giant. LOL

Get this story, about a man who claimed to be carrying a bomb-

A recent stand-off between a man and the police ended peacefully in the streets of Phoenix.

The Phoenix Police received a call at about 3:50 p.m. one day, from a driver who said he saw a man acting strangely and walking in and out of traffic along Central Avenue in downtown Phoenix. I live in a big city too, I’m sure police gets calls like this often enough. When the police arrived to check out the complaint they noticed a man was holding a yellow blanket to conceal his hands and upper chest and he was saying that he had a bomb.The Police shut down the street and evacuated a Burger King and Circle K.

The officers asked the man to put down the blanket and surrender for more than an hour, but when he refused, police fired several stun bag rounds and concussion grenades, and sicked a police dog on the man. Ow!

After the police action, officers ran up to the man, and he threw what he had been concealing at them. It turned out to be a block of wood. It was unclear why the man was acting in such an odd way. He might have been mentally unstable or on drugs.

The man faces charges of aggravated assault and disorderly conduct. He was taken to a local hospital with a minor bite on one of his arms. I bet that ended up being an interesting story for the ER staff to talk about.

She was just brushing her teeth

A woman suffered severe burning to her anus after being struck by lightning which hit her in the mouth and passed right through her body.

Natasha Timarovic, 27, was cleaning her teeth at home when lightning struck the building.

She said: “I had just put my mouth under the tap to rinse away the toothpaste when the lightning must have struck the building.

I don’t remember much after that, but I was later told that the lightning had traveled down the water pipe and struck me on the mouth, passing through my body.

It was incredibly painful, I felt it pass through my torso and then I don’t remember much at all.”

Doctors at the city hospital where she was treated for burns to the mouth and rear said: “The accident is bizarre but not impossible”.

Of course it’s bizarre. Have you ever heard of such a thing happening before? I guess this is a lesson to all of us. Don’t brush your teeth (or shower, bathe etc) during a lightening storm. Or perhaps don’t bend down to sip water from the tap, use a plastic cup instead.

She was wearing rubber bathroom shoes at the time and so instead of earthing through her feet it appears the electricity shot out of her backside,” a medic told local television news. Ok, so I guess if you really must brush your teeth during a storm where you rubber soled shoes then. You might still get hurt but not as badly.

“It appears to have earthed through the damp shower curtain that she was touching as she bent over to put her mouth under the tap. If she had not been wearing the shoes she would probably have been killed by the blast.”

I wonder how long it will take the poor girl to recover. I wonder if her friends will call her “Lightening Butt” from now on?

McMoose?

Single college moose seeks fun, attractive moosette

A moose that wandered onto the Northern Michigan University campus and broke a dormitory window might have been looking for love in all the wrong places.

City police chased the animal away one evening last month after the incursion at Magers Hall, Detective Capt. Mike Angeli said. It was unclear whether the moose got inside the building.

“It’s not unusual for a moose to do something like this now,” said Dean Beyer, a Michigan Department of Natural Resources wildlife biologist who has an office at Northern Michigan. “We’re in the middle of the mating rut right about now.

“Moose, especially a young bull moose, will move long distances,” he said. “They could be searching for a cow to mate with, or simply be a young bull dispersing after being chased away from its herd and looking for a new home range.”

We’ve had experience with moose wandering over to our cottage and looking in the windows, but none have ever managed to get inside. Moose are huge animals, I certainly wouldn’t want one wandering around my rooms, particularly if it were rutting season.