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A bear brigade led by a massive specimen dubbed “Hank the Tank” has broken into dozens of homes in South Lake Tahoe, Calif. To raid the refrigerators. Hank has ballooned up to some 500 pounds on this diet of pilfered human food, and easily crashes through doors and windows. But the residents who’ve encountered the massive beast say he doesn’t growl or menace them. “He just sits there and eats” said Ann Bryant of the Bear League. State wildlife authorities are trying to capture Hank and two fellow invaders and the Bear League. State wildlife authorities are trying to capture Hank and two fellow invaders and release them in a “suitable environment.”

 

In Washington’s Olympic National Park due to their yen for the minerals in human pee. Large herds of goats paw and dig areas along trails and campsites where hikers have urinated, in search of the salt and other minerals it provides. To reduce the goat’s numbers  - and their digging up of park grounds and sometimes aggressive interactions with people – rangers have begun using helicopters to airlift the animals to more remote forests in the North Cascades.

A Florida man who believed he had bought fake methamphetamine called 911 asking to have it tested, police say. Police said Thomas Eugene Colucci told the arriving officers he was an experienced drug user who “knew what it should feel like” and that he wanted to put the “seller in trouble.” The officers tested the crystals as Colucci requested – then arrested him for possession when the test came up positive.

An Arizona woman spent a year training to be a DEA agent – but found out the federal agent supposedly training her was an impostor. The ruse was exposed when a Portland, Ore. police officer saw the pair next to a car with flashing emergency lights. The cop quickly recognized that the woman’s DEA credentials were fake. She said the “agent” Robert Edward Golden, had taken her on nightly ride-alongs and practice shooting. Golden insisted the DEA identifies were part of “cosplay” but was arrested.

An Arizona man hit a nearly $230,000 jackpot on a slot machine in Las Vegas – but left without realizing what he had won. When the slot player got a screen reading “Resolving Progressive Prize, Please Wait” he lingered a few minutes, then left to make a dinner reservation. Two days later workers fixing the malfunctioning machine “detected the jackpot hit”. Said the Nevada Gaming Control Board. The Investigators spent three weeks tracking down the unknowing winner through surveillance video, witness interviews, and a credit card payment to a ride hailing service. He was delivered a check for $229, 368.52. 

 

The Thridarangar Lighthouse stands just in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, a few miles from the Vestmann Islands coast, in the south of Iceland. It is the most isolated lighthouse in the world and is only reachable by helicopter.

The lighthouse, which literally translated from the Icelandic language means "three rocks", was built in 1939 on the highest of the three rocky spurs that make up this small group of rock formations. The persistent impact of the icy ocean waves that violently break on the cliff, prevent any attempt of reaching the lighthouse by boat. The lighthouse which stands 36 meters on the summit of a steep and dangerous rock formation, is only reachable from the sky, making it a truly unique location.

 

 

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