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HOMESICK SNAKE

After a highly venomous King Cobra, named “Sir Hiss”, escaped from his tank during maintenance at the Skansen leisure complex in Stock-holm, staff attempted to capture him with glue traps and tempt him out with dead rats, then tried to track his movements by putting flour on the floor and cameras in the wall cavities, all to no avail. Eventually borrowed X-ray scanners located him in the ceiling, but when staff tried to cut into the space using angle grinders, he gave them the slip again, eventually turning up back in his original tank. Times, 31 Oct 2022.

FLORIDA MAN

Police in Pennsylvania tried to pull over Tony Jay Saunders Jr, of Port Lucie, Florida, who was spotted driving a stolen school bus. After initially complying, Saunders drove away again, weaving through busy traffic until he finally crashed the bus, in which police found a dead

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