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Damn. Would just the tutu be OK?
An Idaho Falls man has been told not to wear his bunny suit in public anymore after neighbors complained that he was frightening small children.
The Idaho Falls Police Department received calls on Monday of a man in a black bunny suit that was being a public nuisance and scaring children in a neighborhood. Police responded to the 400 block of Third Street where they advised 34-year-old William Falkingham not to wear his bunny suit costume in public.
According to reports, a resident told authorities that her son had been frightened by Falkingham who was wearing a black bunny suit and hiding behind a tree. The neighbor also told police that the 34-year-old male pointed his finger like a gun at her son.
Officers also spoke to other neighbors who expressed that they were greatly disturbed by Falkingham and his bunny suit. Neighbors also reported that the 34-year-old occasionally wears a tutu with the costume.
Falkingham told authorities that he enjoys wearing the suit, but understands the neighbors’ concerns and complaints.
via Idaho Falls Police Investigate Man in Bunny Suit – KPVI News 6 – Pocatello, ID.
Somebody call me a cab.
Because by “find” you meant, of course, “eat”:
Police in Lower Saxony, Germany, who decided to teach a vulture to sniff out corpses of missing people, have hit difficulties two months into training.
Reasoning that it could fly over miles of wasteland, then descend where it found a missing person, they had wanted to fit it with a transmitter.But it transpires that Sherlock, as the bird is known, is not very interested.
On top of that, it is shy, confuses human with animal remains and actually prefers to walk, Spiegel magazine says.
via BBC News – German police vulture scheme fails to take off.
Go on without me, I’ll just slow you down:
For people suffering from debilitating autoimmune disorders such as multiple sclerosis, there is growing evidence that help may be at hand from an unusual source: parasitic worms.
In a U.S. study, early safety tests suggested the eggs of pig whipworms have anti-inflammatory properties, reducing the size of brain lesions in MS patients. A similar trial is under way in Denmark. And in Britain, academics at the University of Nottingham are studying the potential health benefits of hookworms, another type of parasitic worm.
If these trials prove successful, treatment with parasitic worms—known as helminthic therapy—could provide a simple, cheap, natural and controllable treatment for the debilitating condition, which affects 2.5 million people world-wide.
[more] via Parasitic Worms May Offer Hope of New Multiple Sclerosis Treatments – WSJ.com.
Gene Weingarten is not amused, but in an amusing way:
Dear Leslie:
I am honored that you have chosen me as the subject of your journalism school graduate thesis. At the behest of your instructor, you e-mailed me to ask how I’ve “built my personal brand over the years.” I’m answering with this column.
The best way to build a brand is to take a three-foot length of malleable iron and get one end red-hot. Then, apply it vigorously to the buttocks of the instructor who gave you this question. You want a nice, meaty sizzle.
via Gene Weingarten: How branding is ruining journalism – The Washington Post.
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