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Erik heard his sister’s screams and went out to in- vestigate, opening the toilet seat to find “a bear face ... just looking right back up through the hole, right at me,” he said. He shut the lid and led Shan- non back to the yurt, where they treated the wound on her buttocks with a first aid kit and determined is wasn’t serious.
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“She could be the only per- son on Earth that this has ever happened to,” said Carl Koch, biologist for Alaska Depart- ment of Fish and Game Wild- life Management.
Staying compliant with COVID-19 safety rules, Pilgrim left her mask on throughout the process and was startled when officials took her photo while still wearing her mask, she told Fox 11. The clerk realized the error and took another photo, but when the new ID arrived in the mail, Pilgrim’s masked-up face was on the
When Faking It Fails
In other Weird reports:
“Sheep need to be shorn at least annually, otherwise the fleece continues to grow and grow ... He was underweight and due to all the wool around his face he could barely see,” Behrend added.
On Feb. 10, police found Soules lying near a water tow-
‘Baaa’-d Hair Day
Unmasked ... Not!
license. The DMV advised her the license is valid, even with the mask, but Pilgrim is not taking any chances: She’s
er with his hands bound behind his back and a bandana in his mouth, Associated Press re- ported. Soules told officers two men had kidnapped him from his home, knocked him uncon- scious and driven him around in his car looking for money his father had hidden around town, but detectives could find no evidence of a kidnapping or assault, and when pressed, Soules confessed he made the story up to avoid work at The Tire Factory, which subse- quently fired him.
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Shannon Stevens, along with her brother, Erik, and his girlfriend,
Woman ‘Bears’ Brunt Of Attack On Her Bum
snowmobiled to Erik’s yurt in the backcountry near Haines, Alaska, on Feb. 13 and got the scare of a lifetime after she was attacked from below by a bear in an outhouse, the Associated Press reported.
Reuters reported on Feb. 24 that a wayward sheep found in a forest in Australia, has been shorn of the more
Leslie Pilgrim of Hunting- ton Beach, California, waited more than two hours at the
than 77 pounds of fleece he was carrying and is now hap- pily recovering at Edgar’s Mission Farm Sanctuary near Lancefield, Victoria. Named Baarack by his rescuers, the sheepwas“inabitofabad way,” said the sanctuary’s Kyle Behrend.
DMV in Laguna Hills in early
getting a new one made.
February to get a REAL ID, an upgraded driver’s license that will be required for air- line travel starting in October.
“(A)t the end of the day, this is funny,” she said. “With all the things happening in the world right now, this is an incredibly minor inconve- nience.”
Brandon Soules, 19, was arrested by police in Coolidge, Arizona, on Feb. 17, for falsely reporting to police that he had been kidnapped in an apparent scheme to get out of work.
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