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Bear walks into shop, strolls out with candies
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Nobody likes a bear inside the premises of their building, but a worker at 7-Eleven store in Olympic Valley was shocked to see a bear entering a store in California as the furry animal snacked and shoplifted some candies from the store.
The incident took place on September 6, 2022, according to a local news report. Media reports quoted cashier Christopher Kinson as saying that he was working the night shift when he discovered the brown bear.
“It came in, sniffed around, and once it got the food that it wanted, it scooted right out the door,” he said.
The bear’s entry was captured by the CCTV installed inside the convenience store. Mr Kinson said the footage did not do justice and that the furry animal was actually “20 per cent to 30 per cent bigger in real life.”
“I was scared initially, but they just want to eat. You always have to be careful though. We do not know how exactly they are thinking. Initially I was scared, but after 15, 20 seconds, I was fine,” the store clerk said.
After the bear’s repeated trips, Mr Kinson decided to stop the animal’s invasion so that the store would not become a source of its food. So, he blocked the door with a garbage bag and a mop. — ndtv.com
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Message in bottle floats from Canada to Ireland in 13 years
A message in a bottle launched by visitors to Newfoundland’s Bell Island was found washed up on an Irish beach nearly 13 years later, after apparently crossing the Atlantic Ocean.
Kate Gay said she was walking a Dingle Peninsula beach this week when she spotted the wine bottle with a sheet of paper inside.
Gay showed the bottle to members of Creative Ireland NeartnaMacharaí during a meeting at her house that evening, and they broke the bottle open.
The note, written by a couple named Brad and Anita, was dated Sept. 12, 2012. The letter described the couple’s day trip to Bell Island.
There was a phone number on the letter, but there was no answer when group members tried to call.
The Maharees Heritage and Conservation group posted photos of the bottleto social media on Monday, and within an hour group members were messaging with Anita.
Group member Martha Farrell said Anita reported that she and Brad had married in 2016 and are still together to this day. -upi.com
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Woman earns world record for collection of 15,485 egg cups
A Spanish woman who has been collecting egg cups for over 50 years earned a Guinness World Record when her collection was tallied at 15,485 items.
María José Fuster recruited two witnesses to help her tally her collection at a community center in her hometown of Campo, Spain.
Fuster’s collection includes multiple patterns, colors, designs and even novelty cups bearing the images of characters including Superman, Betty Boop and Garfield.
Fuster maintains two blogs related to her hobby — one to catalog each piece, and one to list the names of the people who have donated egg cups to her collection.
Some of her most prized egg cups, about 1,143 of them, are currently on display at a local museum.
-upi.com
