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FULL STORY: https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2021/0...Department-alligator-sculpture/4551626990018/Police responding to report of loose alligator in condo building find gold statue
Police in British Columbia responded Thursday to a report of an alligator loose inside a high-rise condo building, but arrived to find a realistic sculpture.
Constable Jason Douchette, of the Vancouver Police Department, tweeted that officers were dispatched about 7 a.m. Thursday to a condominium building in which a woman reported she was hiding in a stairwell from a loose gator inside the building. ...
Douchette said officers were relieved to discover the alligator was a "realistic fake" -- a gold-colored sculpture. ...
Why not trip up and go splat?
Easy in slippery conditions
Why would anyone think this unusual? The practice of journalistic scene-setting was well-known enough to be parodied in CH4's Drop The Dead Donkey in the 1990s, when the reporter Damien Day was caught planting his teddy bear at the site of a disaster to add human interest.A German reporter who smeared mud on her clothes at the site of one of the devastating floods in the country has been suspended from the channel.
"A German presenter has apologised after being caught smearing mud on her clothes moments before appearing on television from a town ravaged by last week's historic floods.
Susanna Ohlen, 39, said she acted after feeling "ashamed" of reporting from the town in her clean clothes.
The broadcaster RTL said she had been suspended for breaching its standards after the video went viral.
In a statement, Ms Ohlen said she had made a "serious mistake".
She had been reporting from Bad Münstereifel in North Rhine-Westphalia, where record rainfall destroyed homes and left dozens dead last week."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-57946430
I think Damien Day also reported from a 'War Zone' but found the street peacefully quiet with kids playing - so he purchased a grenade from one of the soldiers lazing about, lobbed it over a wall and started filming the panic after detonation.Why would anyone think this unusual? The practice of journalistic scene-setting was well-known enough to be parodied in CH4's Drop The Dead Donkey in the 1990s, when the reporter Damien Day was caught planting his teddy bear at the site of a disaster to add human interest.
A car has been left in a 'bizarre' position over Parkgate promenade.
Passers-by have been left bemused by how the vehicle got there.
The blue SUV was left in the unusual position over the low former sea wall at Parkgate in Cheshire today (July 25).
One person, who sent a picture of the vehicle hanging off a low wall at the popular resort said they had "no idea" how the car got there.
Also, the car is not "hanging" on anything.No idea? No idea at all?
Well I guess a day-tripper comes before a fall!No idea? No idea at all?
https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/...NUxHXVOxUuCSqxD3YVR4Is1sNld38T-M8e8HERN_L7ZhgFootprints mystery solved
By Wyatt Ryder
Police offered support and assistance to a young woman who called emergency services early this morning over a suspicious pair of footprints, which turned out to be her own.
"They were made of a salt-like material, he said." So, wonder what the salt-like material actually was?The good citizens of Dunedin can sleep safely in their beds now
https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/...NUxHXVOxUuCSqxD3YVR4Is1sNld38T-M8e8HERN_L7Zhg
Well, the story reads "a salt-like material," so, are we to assume that she walked upon spilled salt?Salt?
'SimonBurchell,' Yup, seems that Dunedin in New Zealand is pretty close to the sea (and sand) so confirms your 'brine' input. . . Cheers!Possibly walked in brine, which evaporated, leaving salt footprints?
That's definitely one step in the right direction I would suggest!It was Lot's wife who left 'em.
Seriously, it would be nice to hear the reasons why the police came to the conclusion that they did.
Did the prints match the feet they suspected?
Seriously, it would be nice to hear the reasons why the police came to the conclusion that they did.
I bet that meant that there were a lot of very Cross people after that outlandish display!I remember watching Ian Brown performing at Glastonbury in 1999 or 2000, cant remember exactly, he was having a rant about England, for some reason, and grabbed what he thought was a St. George cross flag out of the crowd, and attempted to set it alight with his lighter, now this is 2 fails in one, as the flag refused to burn, and more importantly it wasn't a St. George's flag but a Northern Ireland flag.
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There was lots of booing that's for sureI bet that meant that there were a lot of very Cross people after that outlandish display!