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Mother drops 3-year-old child into bear enclosure
A horrifying video captured the moment a mother dropped her three-year-old daughter into a bear enclosure at a zoo in Uzbekistan. She has now been charged with attempted murder.
Shocking footage from the Zoo showed the mother dangling her child over the railings before dropping her down. According to news reports, horrified onlookers watched helplessly as the child landed in a trench about 16-feet below, right into the brown bear’s den.
The bear, named Zuzu, had been circling its enclosure. Witnesses said that it went up to the girl and sniffed her after she landed in the trench. Fortunately, the bear moved away after sniffing the child and did not hurt her.
Meanwhile, zookeepers managed to lure the animal into an indoor part of the enclosure in order to rescue the girl. The mother, who has not been named, was detained and charged with attempted murder. She faces up to 15 years in jail if convicted. –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
