[Misstee]

'One Piece' superfan amasses world's largest collection
By Ben Hooper




Lam Siu Fung holds the Guinness World Record for largest collection of "One Piece" memorabilia. Photo courtesy of Guinness World Records

Jan. 25 (UPI) -- A Hong Kong man showed his love for the manga and anime series One Piece by amassing the world's largest collection of memorabilia.

Lam Siu Fung said his collection of items related to One Piece, the story of young pirate Monkey D. Luffy and his crew as they search for a treasure known as the One Piece, began about a decade ago, and has now grown to 20,125 items.

Fung broke the previous record of 5,656 items, set by Japanese fan Yoshikazu Sanada, Guinness World Records confirmed.

Fung's collection includes One Piece-themed umbrellas, jigsaw puzzles, alarm clocks, snow globes, sleeping masks, passport covers, a waste basket, toys and more.

"I want to collect all the official One Piece products and use these collections to express my respect and support for the author," Lam told GWR.

Eiichiro Oda, who started the One Piece manga series in 1997, holds a Guinness World Record for the most copies published for the same comic book series by a single author.

Russian 'spy whale' to get asylum in Norway years after agent fled with 'equipment'
Norway will offer asylum to former Russian 'spy whale' Hvaldimir after it breached Russian territory to make its way to safer waters, carrying with it some unique and important 'equipment'



Norway has given asylum to a former Russian "spy whale" after it shored up in their waters with so-called "equipment" straight from the heart of the motherland.

Initially making contact with a series of fishing boats in 2019, a beluga whale named Hvaldimir broke from Russian territory to make a daring escape.

Wearing a tight harness stamped with “equipment of St Petersburg”, the whale went viral and in doing so the Norwegian Government has decided to house the defector of Vladimir Putin's military.

Decisions made for the safety of the animal come as a charity claimed Hvaldimir, who was friendly with tourists, would struggle in international waters.



His struggle would not be because he is presumably on Russia's aquatic wanted list, but because his familiarity with people and training puts him in a difficult spot in the wild.

Salmon farmers put Agent Hvaldimir under threat, as conservationists worry he may be trapped by nets, eating fish attracted by bait or being a nuisance to fishermen.

Former property mogul Adam Thorpe, founder of charity OneWhale, is set to give Hvaldimir a place of permanent residency, reasoning that everyone has "fallen in love" with the former Russian spy.

Thorpe said: "I thought, well, if we could create a sanctuary or a reserve, which protects the whale from boat traffic, it means that he can fish for himself and live as natural a life as possible."



His goal on a larger scale is to take in a number of whales trained by humans and used in captivity, giving them a safer environment to live in, The Guardian reported.

While not quite the robo-agent Jones from Johnny Mnemonic was, Hvaldimir did manage quite the daring escape from Russian waters, soon finding itself in the safer seas of Norway.

Founder Regina Crosby Haug says: "We are creating a sanctuary which protects the whale from boat traffic, unsanctioned tourism, and from disrupting salmon farm operations. He will be able to continue to roam freely, fish for himself and live as natural a life as possible.

"The ultimate goal is that we can offer refuge to a number of formerly captive whales trained by humans and used for entertainment, giving them a safe haven to thrive in.

"In Hvaldimir's case, we hope he can rehabilitate safely in the reserve until he can be moved to join another beluga pod in the wild."

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/weird- ... y-28435662

[johngriffen]

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Sea spiders can regrow lost anuses and sex organs - leaving scientists stunned

No backside? No problem for some young sea spiders.

The creatures can regenerate nearly complete parts of their bottom halves — including muscles, reproductive organs and the anus — or make do without them, researchers report January 23 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.


The adult sea spider (Pycnogonum litorale) in this microscope image made a full recovery after its back half was amputated

The ability to regrow body parts isn’t super common, but some species manage to pull it off. Some sea slug heads can craft an entirely new body (SN: 3/8/21). Sea spiders and some other arthropods — a group of invertebrates with an exoskeleton — can regrow parts of their legs. But researchers thought new legs were the extent of any arthropod’s powers, perhaps because tough exteriors somehow stop them from regenerating other body parts.


This juvenile has had the last quarter of its body amputated


After the third molt, the animal looks normal again.

A mishap first clued evolutionary biologist Georg Brenneis in that sea spiders (Pycnogonum litorale) might be able handle more complex repairs too. He accidentally injured one young specimen that he was working on in the lab with forceps. “It wasn’t dead, it was moving, so I just kept it,” says Brenneis, of the University of Vienna. Several months later, the sea spider had an extra leg instead of a scar, he and evolutionary biologist Gerhard Scholtz of Humbolt University of Berlin reported in 2016 in The Science of Nature.

In the new study, most of the 19 young spiders recovered and regrew missing muscles and other parts of their lower halves after amputation, though the regeneration wasn’t always perfect. Some juveniles sported six or seven legs instead of eight.

None of four adults regenerated. That may be because adults no longer shed their skin as they grow, suggesting that regeneration and molting are somehow linked, Brenneis says. Two young sea spiders also didn’t regenerate at all. The animals survived with only four legs and without an anus. Instead of pooping, the pair regurgitated waste out of their mouths. (Yeah, not sorry - I had to read that bit, so you have to as well )


This young sea spider's parts did not regrow

Next up is figuring out whether other arthropods also regenerate more than scientists thought, and how sea spiders do it, Brenneis says. “I would like to see how it works.”

He is planning further research by reproducing the study with insects, crabs and other crustaceans. And the breakthrough could be transformative for health care. Such research could one day advance treatments for human amputees.

"The hope is always there," said Professor Scholtz.

"I don't think the sea spiders will play a crucial role, but who knows? The more you know about regeneration in the animal kingdom, the better you might be able to use it for medical treatment."

Eagle mistakes golf ball for egg in Kruger National Park


A bateleur eagle finds a rather strange object when hunting and decides to have a little fun with it.

Lodge manager and photographic guide Rihann Van Wyk, 41, from Mvuradona Safari Lodge was out on a game drive in the Kruger National Park in South Africa when he came across the playful scene.

He shared the story with LatestSightings.com.

"While on a game drive in the Kruger National Park, I was driving along the S108 dirt road, searching for the resident leopards that call this part of the park home. Often, when you are searching for something, you will never find it. As I thought that to myself, a large raptor about to land caught my eye.

"This section was mainly grassland with some apple leaf trees and some shrubs. As soon as the raptor landed, I saw it was a bateleur eagle. I stopped the vehicle some distance away and waited to see what was going to happen, as I knew there must be something that got its attention. The next moment it picked up an 'egg' and tried to swallow it."

Bateleur eagles have diets that consist of a large variety of different items. They will consume rodents, small reptiles, small antelope and carrion. Bateleur eagles will consume eggs on very rare occasions.

"This egg was too big to fit down its throat, and I thought it was strange that the egg did not break. The bateleur picked it up and dropped it time and time again. The continuous attempts were tiresome and somewhat frustrating for the bird. Only then did I notice the poor bateleur was trying to swallow a golf ball."

The incident shows how harmful littering is to the environment and in national parks. If the eagle had swallowed the golf ball, it would not have survived.

"Once I noticed that it was a golf ball. I wanted to get a bit closer, but the bateleur flew away. This was definitely a first for me. Hopefully I never get to witness a sighting like that again."

How the golf ball got to the S108 is a mystery, as the Skukuza golf course is a good distance away.

Umm ... is this so?
Real-life ‘Avatar’ blue people existed — thanks to years of inbreeding



It’s a different sort of “blue blood.”

The idea of blue-skinned people may seem relegated to Smurf Village and other fictional places; however, one rural Kentucky family actually sported sapphire skin due to a rare condition sparked by generations of inbreeding. Their shocking account was detailed in a 1982 article by the University of Indiana’s Cathy Trost, called “The Blue People of Troublesome Creek,” published in Science 82 magazine.

The tale of these Appalachian “Avatars” first gained mainstream attention in 1975 after Benjamin “Benjy” Stacy was born with dark blue skin, ABC News reported. Doctors were so alarmed by the baby’s peculiar pigment that they had him transferred to the University of Kentucky Medical Center, located 116 miles away from his hometown of Hazard in the Bluegrass State.

Despite testing him for two days, physicians remained flummoxed by the infant’s blue hue. That’s when Benjy’s grandmother chimed in, inquiring if they’d ever heard of the “blue Fugates of Troublesome Creek?” Meanwhile, relatives described great-grandmother Luna Fugate as “the bluest woman I ever saw.”



As it turned out, the “cyanotic” (a term for blue discoloration) tot was a descendant in a long line of Smurf-skinned Kentuckians dating back to 1820 when French orphan Martin Fugate moved to Eastern Kentucky and met Elizabeth Smart.

Despite not being related, the lovebirds carried the gene for methemoglobinemia, a super-rare condition that occurs when red blood cells contain abnormal levels of methemoglobin — a form of hemoglobin that can’t carry oxygen to tissues. Due to this lack of oxygenation, sufferers are often blue-skinned with purple lips and chocolate-colored blood. Their appearance is like that of Violet Beauregarde from “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory” — post-blueberry incident.

Lo and behold, Smart gave birth to seven kids, four of whom had a cobalt countenance. As the methemoglobinemia gene is recessive, it wouldn’t have affected future generations, except that the Fugates started marrying within their own clan. Experts say they resorted to incest due to extreme isolation: Eastern Kentucky didn’t have roads and railroads wouldn’t reach it until the early 20th century, AllThatsInteresting.com reported.



“When they settled this country back then, there were no roads,” said Dennis Stacy, a Fugate descendant told Science 82 of this stagnating gene pool. “It was hard to get out, so they intermarried.”

Elizabeth and Martin’s son Zachariah married his auntie and the Fugates bred with other cousins, as well as descendants from other families such as Combs, Smith, Ritchie and Stacy.

It wasn’t too long before their familial Blue Man Group was formed. A now-viral pic dated to the early 20th century shows the Fugates sporting eerily azure visages like old-timey “Avatar” cosplayers.

According to Science 82, the bluest of the bunch was Luna Stacy, the child of Levi Fugate and his first cousin, Hannah Richie.

Nurse Carrie Lee Kilburn described the woman as “bluish all over” with lips “as dark as a bruise.”

Despite their oddball appearances, the citizens of Troublesome Creek backed the blue, with one Fugate fan claiming, “They looked like anybody else, ‘cept they had the blue color.”

Nonetheless, by the early 1960s, the family had come to resent their indigo appearance — which they saw as a scarlet — or violet? — letter denoting their history of inbreeding. Two Fugates even approached Madison Cawein, a hematologist at the University of Kentucky’s medical clinic at the time, to try and remedy their condition. He said they were so bothered by their looks that they wouldn’t “even come into the waiting room.”

Fortunately, after diagnosing their methemoglobinemia, Cawein was able to cure their affliction by — wait for it — using more blue. The good doctor specifically administered them methylene blue dye — which helps the body convert methemoglobin to hemoglobin like an ultramarine vaccine. Within minutes of ingesting it, the Fugate’s cerulean skin turned pink, effectively ridding the cobalt-colored clan of the blues.

Meanwhile, Benjy Stacy, the last known living Fugate descendent who reportedly resides in Alaska, lost all of his azure colorations by age 7, suggesting that he received his “blue” genes from just one parent.

However, his lips and fingertips still reportedly turn blue when he gets cold or angry.

https://nypost.com/2023/01/25/real-life ... nbreeding/

[Fatima99]

Artwork Found in Shed Covered in Bird Droppings Turns Out to be Early Van Dyck Now at Auction for $3 Million




An oil sketch done by Dutch Master Anthony van Dyck is going up for auction soon, after being found discarded in a farm shed covered with bird droppings.

Bought on a hunch for $600 in 2002 from an estate auction, it’s predicted to sell for $3 million when it goes up at Sotheby’s.

While it was found far from the Flemish painter’s home of Antwerp, the farmhouse lay in the town of “Kinderhook” New York, a town settled almost certainly by his countryman. Albert B. Roberts believed it to be a work by a Dutch master of some repute, and bought it for “the excitement of the chase.”

A Study of Saint Jerome is one of only two known live model works completed by the painter Anthony van Dyck. Artnet reports it was “likely created between 1615 and 1618, when the young painter was working as an assistant in Peter Paul Rubens’s Antwerp studio.”

It depicts an elderly man with a long beard slouching on a chair, an interesting dichotomy of sinewy muscle and flabby skin characterizing him as a farmer or laborer. It gives art historians a chance to see a little more of van Dyck’s work as a young man, and thankfully, the bird droppings had landed only on the back paper.

Then-87-year-old Roberts exhibited the painting in 2019 at the Albany Institute of History & Art, the same year he had it authenticated by art historian Susan Barnes.

“I’ve devoted the last 30 years of my life to the search for art that I like to call ‘orphaned’ art, that for one reason or another has been neglected, overlooked, perhaps lost in the shuffle of the art world in different countries,” he said at the time.

Now deceased, some of Roberts’ pieces of ‘orphaned’ art are making up a Sotheby’s “Old Masters” collection.

Anthony van Dyck became a court painter for Charles I of Britain, whose house revered him for his skill at portraiture. The king knighted van Dyck, and upon his death had him interred at St. Paul’s Cathedral in London.

[goldie0608]

Conjoined Twin Sisters Undergo Successful Surgery to Separate at 4 Months Old

16-week-old twins JamieLynn and AmieLynn were successfully separated at a Fort Worth hospital on Monday



One became two in Fort Worth, Texas on Monday, as 4-month-old conjoined twins successfully underwent a separation surgery.

JamieLynn and AmieLynn, daughters to Amanda Arciniega and James Finley, made history at Cook Children's Medical Center as the first conjoined twins to be separated at the hospital. The operation took 11 hours and involved more than a dozen medical professionals, including four pediatric surgeons, three anesthesiologists and two plastic surgeons — one for each girl, a release from the hospital said.

"By separating early, they're not going to be as used to the loss of having essentially part of you that is different, so hopefully, that transition will be better," Jose Iglesias, medical director of pediatric surgery at Cook Children's said. "There are not very many more benefits to waiting longer versus doing it now."

The situation was rare to begin with.

Arciniega and Finley learned that they were expecting twins at their 10-week scan. "She said that's the baby's head," Finley recalled. "I was like, 'What is that?' and she said, 'That's the other baby's head.' And I was like, 'What?' "

Shortly after that appointment, doctors confirmed that the two girls were conjoined.

"As far as conjoined twins that reach and stay viable after birth, at least for the first few days, there's really only about five to eight of those per year on the entire planet, so it is very rare," Dr. Iglesias said.

On October 3, JamieLynn and AmieLynn joined their parents Earth-side, and spent the first month in the NICU at the hospital where they were delivered. A month later, the girls were transferred to the NICU at Cook Children's, where they would later undergo the separation operation.

Monday's surgery was a tedious process. "It took us five hours from rolling into the room until the time we actually cut skin, and the reason is safety," Valerie Gibbs, director of perioperative services, said in a video shared on the hospital's Facebook page.



Once both babies were safely under anesthesia, the team began the separation. The liver was divided first, and the team slowly made their way to the back of the girls' abdominal wall to complete the dissection.

At 3 p.m. local time, the family got the news they'd been waiting for.

"You have two babies on two separate beds," Dr. Gibbs told the waiting room where Arciniega and Finley and their loved ones sat. Applause erupted, and Arciniega and Finley shared a tearful embrace.

It was another three hours, though, before the operation was fully complete.

However, the twins still have a long road ahead of them.

"The challenges the girls may face after surgery are very difficult to fully prepare for," neonatologist Mary Frances Lynch said. "We do still have some unknowns as far as how their shared vasculature and their shared anatomy and positioning over these last three months will affect them."

The main concerns in the days following the operation are "breathing support and pain control," she said.

It's also a "possibility" that future operations will be needed to ensure everything is properly healed and growing, Dr. Iglesias said.

"I'm sure mom and dad are going to think we're moving in slow motion. The first steps are going to be healing of the very large incision that is required to separate them. We have to wait for their gut to start to work before we start allowing nutrition to move through their intestines."

Scientists say giant squid or massive shark may be stalking deepest parts of the ocean
An experiment to discover what kind of life exists on the ocean floor has raised the possibility of a truly gigantic squid or shark lurking in the dark ocean deeps

An experiment to find out exactly what lifeforms are in the deep ocean came up with a surprising conclusion – there’s something down there that can eat an entire alligator and we don’t know what it is.

The ocean deeps are less well-explored than the surface of the Moon. To help change that, two Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium scientists took three alligator carcasses and dropped them to the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, about a mile down.

"To explore the food web deep inside the sea, we placed three dead alligators at least 6,600 feet down in the Gulf of Mexico for 51 days," said Clifton Nunnally from Louisiana University.


Giant squid are well known, but scientists believe there could be an even larger species of squid in the ocean depths

Why alligators? The researchers explained: “We have seen alligators and crocodiles utilising marine habitats more in recent years...so we decided to do this experiment to investigate the impact of a large reptile carcass on deep-sea food webs and large reptile carcasses as a potential carbon pathway to the deep.”

The first alligator was completely gone in less than a day. Underwater scavengers, such as giant sea snails, gobbled it up much more quickly than expected.

The second alligator carcass lated a little longer. After 51 days, the researchers pulled it up and found its bones had been picked completely clean.



“That one genuinely surprised us. There was not even a single scale or scute left on the carcass,” scientist Craig McClain told Atlas Obscura.

Eventually, the researchers worked out that a new kind of bone-eating worm in the Osedax family, previously unknown to science, had efficiently removed the alligator’s flesh from its bones.

But it was the third alligator that provided the biggest shock. Something picked up the alligator carcass and carried it off, leaving nothing but a shallow depression in the ocean floor. The weight that they’d used to weigh the carcass down was found around 10 yards away.



McClain theorised that it was probably either a very large shark or a giant squid.

But any shark or squid big enough to carry off an alligator weighing the better part of half a ton could be an entirely new species.

“I have yet to find a squid that could consume a whole alligator, and I don’t want to be on the ship if we ever discover it,” McClain told News18.

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/weird- ... e-25005444

[PennySerenade]

‘Pooping perpetrator’ sought after disgusting find at crime scene, Florida cops say



A Florida burglary suspect has been dubbed the “pooping perpetrator” after detectives made a disgusting find at the crime scene.

The suspect dropped a DNA sample in the worst possible way, according to the Fort Myers Police Department.

“Saturday, January 21st at approximately 2:30 am, (a) male broke into Joe’s Crab Shack, located at 2024 W. First Street,” police reported in a news release.

“The male climbed through a small window. He broke and stole multiple items to include alcohol, then defecated on the floor prior to leaving.”

Knowingly or not, he did this in view of security cameras, and was not wearing a mask.



That means police have multiple surveillance videos, showing things most people don’t want to see.

Two edited videos were shared Jan. 22 on Facebook, one of him easing through a window and another showing the suspect casually walking behind the counter.

Crimestoppers is hoping for tips, but it may have to settle for a lot of jokes about the “mad pooper.” This includes some who suggest taking the evidence to forensics for DNA testing.

“The whole world gets to see him take a (potty break),” David Griffith noted on the police department’s Facebook page.

“I love the sign adjacent to his crime: ‘Thank You. Come Again.’ Hope you find this bozo before he sh.., uh, strikes again,” Ellen Perry wrote.

“I don’t know who I feel sorry for: the owner who had things stolen or the poor officers who were lucky enough to find what he did on floor. Maybe I’m getting too old I keep thinking nothing surprises me anymore,” Barbara Raschella said.

Fort Myers is about 125 miles south of Tampa.

[Misstee]

Australian man named world's oldest competitive soccer player at 79
By Ben Hooper




David Mudge was named the world's oldest competitive football (soccer) player at the age of 79. Photo courtesy of Guinness World Records


Jan. 26 (UPI) -- An Australian man who plays for his local soccer team became a Guinness World Record holder as the world's oldest competitive player at the age of 79.

Guinness World Records said David Mudge, who celebrated his 80th birthday on Wednesday, was 79 years and 89 days old when he played for the Kissing Point Football Club in a Northern Suburbs Football Association game against North Turramurra.

Mudge, who plays for the over-45 team every week of the season, applied for the Guinness World Record after his son learned the previous record-holder for oldest competitive football (soccer) player (male) was only 73 years old.

GWR said its rules required Mudge to remain on the field for an entire 90-minute game, which the player achieved in the April 25, 2022, match.

[lush]

Website offers $1,000 to a couple willing to build IKEA furniture
Jan. 26, 2023 / 4:10 PM*


Website FinanceBuzz is offering a $1,000 prize to a couple willing to put their relationship to the test by building IKEA furniture together. File Photo by Bill Greenblatt/UPI | License Photo

Jan. 26 (UPI) -- A financial advice website is seeking a couple willing to test the strength of their bond by assembling IKEA furniture together for $1,000.

FinanceBuzz said it is searching for an "IKEA DIY Duo" who would be given $1,000 in IKEA store credit to purchase a bedroom set.

The couple would then be asked to assemble the furniture together and document the experience.

"FinanceBuzz is looking for a couple willing to put their relationship to the test this Valentine's season by building an entire IKEA bedroom set together and documenting the experience," the site said. "Just you and your significant other, a wordless instruction manual and a hex key."

The winning couple will be awarded $1,000 for completing the task.

Applications are being accepted on the website through Feb. 14.

[johngriffen]

I sometimes get REALLY DEPRESSED reviewing the news these days.
It's always about a global pandemic threatening life as we know it,
protests around the world, stupid politicians, natural disasters,
or some other really bad story.
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH

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Amusing photographs from Germany show the man running after the animal to try and claim the plastic bag back.
But the cheeky boar and its two piglets appear to be too quick for the sunbather, who can't keep up with their speedy little trotters.
As the incident unfolds, groups of friends and family sat on the grass watch on and laugh.
Heads are seen turning in surprise and amusement in the hilarious photographs.
The incident happened at Teufelssee Lake - a bathing spot in the Grunwell Forest in Berlin, Germany.

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[ozswede]

Cadbury sends customer $5 Coles voucher for botched chocolate: 'Are you serious?'

An Aussie woman was stunned after her chocolate purchase from Coles left her somewhat empty handed.

The woman, who goes by This Ethnic Life on social media platforms, was surprised when the Cadbury's pineapple chocolate block, bought by her husband, was not flowing with the pineapple centre it had promised on the label.

In fact, it had no filling at all.


The chocolate bar didn't pack a punch without the pineapple filling.

"It's literally the Cadbury's shell with no filling," she announced in her video.

With the video gaining traction online for the unusual incident, the comments bounced between serious calls for compensation and joking cries of dismay at the unpopular flavour combo.

Cadbury contacted for chocolate compensation

The woman decided to heed the call and reached out to Cadbury via email after social media users recommended she do so.

After several weeks, the woman received a response to her query and she jumped into action, sporting a pineapple themed dress to mark the occasion of opening the email while filming the outcome. ( do you really have to film this?)

The chocolate shell in question also accompanied her, which had been carefully preserved.

Mondelēz International, the manufacturer of Cadbury in Australia, apologised to the customer for any inconvenience and "as a gesture of goodwill" arranged a Coles gift voucher for her to spend during her next shop.

However, when clicking through to the gift voucher she was miffed to see the voucher was for an underwhelming $5, less than the chocolate bar's standard price of $5.50 at Coles.

"Are you actually serious? A $5 gift card," said the disappointed woman when seeing the gift voucher.



However, Cadbury has informed Yahoo News Australia the initial voucher was issued incorrectly. A second voucher, valued at $10, has been sent directly to the customer to cover the new purchase in acknowledgement of price variability.

A twist to the chocolate tale

Before receiving the second voucher, the woman uploaded another TikTok video ( OMG ... not another video!) which showed her making the most out of the "funny" situation. She travelled down to Coles to spend the $5 voucher on more pineapple flavoured treats.



However, she suspected someone viewing her social media video may have copied her voucher code and used it for themselves. When she went to check out her pineapple treats her suspicion was confirmed. The voucher had been used and the woman had to fork out more cash for her sweets.

"If you are that desperate to go and use my code, I hope you got something good for it," she said.

With the $10 voucher recently issued to the woman, the cost of the next pineapple flavoured purchase will hopefully now be covered by Cadbury.

(The best part of this story is that when she went to use the voucher, because she’d posted about it online, one of her subscribers had already used it )

(What can I say? TikTok videos, pineapple dresses, 'This Ethnic Life' ... suddenly I'm nostalgic for the days when the disappointed customer communicated with the company either by post or phone and very few others heard about it.)

Aggressive turkey causes chaos in Minnesota neighborhood



Residents of a Minnesota neighborhood said they are under constant attack from an increasingly aggressive turkey that took up residence in the area.

Rachael Gross said the turkey first showed up at the mobile home park in Coon Rapids as part of a flock in November 2021, but the bird stayed behind when the rest of its cohorts moved on a few weeks later.

She said the turkey has since become increasingly aggressive, often attacking people and damaging cars and other property.

"This turkey attacks me every single day. Follows me, goes up my stairs, tries to get into my house. When I leave in my car, it follows my car," Gross told WCCO-TV.

Neighbors said children have to carry sticks when they walk to the school bus stop in the morning to keep the turkey from chasing after them.

Residents said they contacted the Department of Natural Resources, but were only offered advice about keeping the turkey from finding food.

"It's not safe for anybody including the turkey so I would just like it to be relocated to a place it could be with other turkeys and not be a nuisance to people or potentially hurt somebody," resident Emily Ahlsten said.

Scott Noland, a wildlife manager for the Department of Natural Resources, said officials are reluctant to relocate nuisance turkeys, as they often go on to cause further problems elsewhere.

"Removing the bird is kind of the last resort," Noland told The Washington Post. "We don't want to do it right away in situations like this."