Note to self…Next time you rent a car, check the glove box for anything that really shouldn’t be there.

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Of all the things you might expect to find in the glove box, like a road map, car registration or even a flashlight, I bet a snake is not one of them.

But that's what happened Wednesday at the Budget rental location near Milwaukee, Wisconsin’s General Mitchell Airport.

A car had just been returned, when Budget employees opened the glove compartment and found Sammy, a four foot red-tail boa constrictor who had gone missing when his owners had rented the same car several weeks earlier. Richard Houston and Rosanne Burks, Sammy’s parents, had left little Sammy in the car alone while they went shopping. When they returned, Sammy was no where to be found and after searching under the seat and in the trunk they just presumed that he had been stolen and returned the car.

The local Animal Control officials had to be called in to help remove Sammy which even required the dashboard be taken apart.

The man who had been driving the car says he's glad he didn't find Sammy, or he probably would've passed out.

Well I think if I had found Sammy, I would have caused a horrible wreck, because trust me when I tell you that I wouldn’t have been able to get out of that car fast enough and, making certain I had brought the car to a complete stop, would not have been a priority.

Group finds "monster" toad the size of a small dog

http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=bizarre&id=5156082

Toads are among the largest specimens ever captured in Australia, according to Frogwatch coordinator Graeme Sawyer, these toads have a body the size of a football and weighing nearly 2 pounds.


"It's huge, to put it mildly," he said. "The biggest toads are usually females but this one was a rampant male ... I would hate to meet his big sister."


"Frogwatch, which is dedicated to wiping out a toxic toad species that has killed countless Australian animals, picked up the 15-inch-long cane toad during a raid on a pond outside the northern city of Darwin late Monday."


Cane toads were imported from South America during the 1930s in a failed attempt to control beetles on Australia's northern sugar cane plantations. The poisonous toads have proven fatal to Australia's delicate ecosystems, killing millions of native animals from snakes to the small crocodiles that eat them.


As part of its so-called "Toad Buster" project, Frogwatch conducts regular raids on local water holes, blinding the toads with bright lights then scooping them up by the dozen.


"We kill them with carbon dioxide gas, stockpile them in a big freezer and then put them through a liquid fertilizer process" that renders the toads nontoxic, Sawyer said.


"It turns out to be sensational fertilizer," he added.


Scary, think toads will soon role the world?

Woman Ties Crocidiles to Body!

A woman that was trying to cross at the Gaza-Egypt border was stopped by officials because they stated that she looked unusually fat. A woman tied three crocidiles to her waist that were up to 20 inches long. Even with a long robe and a veil on the woman appeared to be up to something. A female guard searched her and discovered the croc's.

The woman was smuggling the wildlife across the border in order to sell them to a zoo. According to the article, these croc's would have brought in big money from the zoo.

I have heard of shoe bombers, box cutters, knife searches, drug smugglers, and bomb threats but I must admit that wildlife smuggling was never an immediate national crisis. I guess that it is good to regulate such activites in order to prevent the spreading of diseases from animal to animal and to protect the rights of the helpless animals that are the victims of the smuggling.

This story is at: http://www.davesdaily.com/out.php?id=25907&url=http%3A%2F%2Fapnews.myway.com%2Farticle%2F20070326%2FD8O3U9KO0.html

From School Bus to Matzos Oven for Passover

Police found a school bus that had been converted into a oven to bake matzo bread after a neighbor complained of smelling smoke. Rabbi Aaron Winternitz converted the old school bus into an oven including a smoke stack, exhaust fans, and a working fire. He was working on baking 100 pounds of matzos for his congregation during Passover week. The bus was attached to the back of the house with gas lines running from the house to the bus.

Surprisingly the police found the fire to be properly contained and that the "oven" was not very hazardous. The only problem, the police explained was that: "There's a gas line that has not been inspected and the bus has been attached to the house in a totally illegal way." Because there is a proper way to attach a school bus to a house??

Here is the story:

http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=bizarre&id=5153107

Man claims fingertip found at bus stop by school children

Well if I was one of the school children who found someone's fingertip, quite frankly I do not know what I would do. Most likely freak out for a little while, then possibly poke it for awhile like some science experiment gone bad.

Apparently schoolchildren found a fingertip at the bus stop which was claimed Friday by a man who injured his hand in a snowblower accident. The man contacted Cranberry police Friday, a day after the children found it.
Police said the man told them the accident happened about two weeks ago when he was trying to clear a snowblower. He didn't bother to look for the finger; he just went to the hospital for treatment, said police Lt. Jeff Schueler. "He claimed it was his, but he didn't want to claim it, if you know what I mean," Schueler told the Butler Eagle.

Yeah I wouldn't want to claim my own fingertip as well. Hey imagine if he got arrested for something, one less finger print to be taken, right?

Hundreds line up for chance to taste sheep testicles

Ever wanted to taste something different and unique, well many people stood in a line for an hour to just do that.

The 16th annual Mountain Oyster Fry, servers at five booths dispensed about 130 pounds of "fried oysters," or sheep testicles. At the Saturday event in this historic mining town about 25 miles southeast of Reno, hundreds of people stood in line up to an hour to try these testicles.

Some of the people liked it well other gave a mixed review.
The tiny morsels can be fried, barbecued, stuffed, or ground up and sauteed.
"People think, `Oh sheep testicles, gross,' but it was pretty good," said Amanda Palmer, 21, of nearby Carson City. This meat have been previously used in taco meat and other dinners.

"We try to get families from all over to try them, but they're all `nuh-uh,'" said Shauna Reese, 32, of Reno. "It's just another tender meat."

Would you stand in line to try some testicles?

http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=bizarre&id=5133806

The Old Urine In The Coffee Pot Trick

A fine young man from Muncie, Indiana decided that it would be hilarious to put urine into his teachers coffee pot. The teacher noticed that the coffee had a weird odor and taste. The teacher notified school officials that foul play may be involved in this isolated incident.

We are raising some of the finest young Americans in this country. We have leaders that insult the military when they are fighting for our freedom. We fight wars and spend billions of dollars killing people but choose not to spend millions of dollars feeding hungry ones. Furthermore, is it really that big of a surprise that children are doing this? What else would they do when they are in middle school, you don't expect them to indulge themselves with reading, writing, and arithmetic, do you?

Best of luck to this eighth grader on his relocation to another school, I'm sure that he will fit in JUST FINE! I guess that his parents never told him about taking the teacher and apple to get on their good side, instead he choose urine.

See this Article: http://www.wane.com/Global/story.asp?S=6252373&nav=0RYb

Nonviolence can Defeat an Empire, but is no Match for Ants

Measures of nonviolence can defeat an empire, but are no match for a colony of red ants. Gandhi was able to over throw British control and gain independence for India using forms of nonviolent protest. However the Buddhist monks of Hong Hock See Temple are having much less success at ridding their temple of ants. They firmly believe that they can not kill any living thing, which left them with very little options when a colony of red ants moved into their worship space. The best they could do was use a vacuum cleaner to suck up the ants, then release then out side. No surprise that didn't work.

Here is the story:

http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=bizarre&id=5115394

Speeders beware -- there might be a leprechan waiting to bust you

I swear I have heard some weird stories in my life, but this is one that tops most others. Remember the movie Leprechan? Ok, well this one wasn't evil so-to-speak, but rather crazy in that an Orange County sheriff's deputy was dressed as a leprechaun, warning drivers to slow down. A laser speed gun clocked cars above his sign reading: "Watch your speed or it will cost you your pot of gold."

Deputies on motorcycles pulled over the lead-footed motorists who didn't ease off the gas pedal. The Orlando Sentinel reports the deputies were writing a ticket a minute.
Some drivers complain it's entrapment. But Richard Lockman, aka Deputy Leprechaun, says "the elf didn't force anybody to speed."

Maybe it's only me, but if I saw a leprechan on the side of the road with a laser speed gun saying to slow down, or I'll lose my pot of gold....I wouldn't be slowing down. If anything I would probably be laughing my butt off. Seriously, what were they thinking?

Now that's using your head...

Three men accused of performing illegal castrations have been sentenced to jail time in North Carolina. Prosecutors said the ring leader, ironically named Richard Peter Sciara who had worked as a physician's assistant at the VA Medical Center in Topeka, Kansas, from February 1976 to June 1999, Michael Mendez, Sciara’s partner of 20 years, and the man they called their slave, Danny Carroll Reeves, ran a sadomasochistic "dungeon" from a renovated carport at his home in a quiet neighborhood near Waynesville in the western part of the state. According to reports six men, some from as far away as South America, came to the home for castration, while others came seeking other forms of body-modification surgery.

In a plea bargain, the men plead guilty to felony castration and maiming avoiding charges of practicing medicine without a license. The 62 year old Sciara who went by the name “Master Rick”, was sentenced to one year in prison, while Reeves, 50, and Mendez, 61, received eight months and four months, respectively, along with three years of supervised probation upon release.

Superior Court Judge Dennis Winner said it was difficult to call the dungeon's willing patients "victims."

Yikes! I realize that many folks have a warped sense of pleasure, but metaphorically speaking... you’d have to have one hell of a set of balls to seek castration from an unlicensed professional who performs surgery in a garage.

Story: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/CASTRATION_DUNGEON?SITE=PAGRE&SECTION=US&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2007-03-16-20-11-46

Suspected drunk driver blames unicorn behind the wheel

http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=bizarre&id=5121513

Todays bizarre story comes from Billings, MT. A man told police not to blame him for crashing his truck into a light post, he blamed it on an unicorn that was driving behind the wheel.

"Prosecutor Ingrid Rosenquist said Phillip C. Holliday Jr. initially denied driving the truck involved in the March 7 crash in Billings. He told officers at the scene that a unicorn was driving, she said. "

Holliday who is 42 pleaded not quilty to the drunken driving.

A pickup truck drove through a red light and nearly struck another truck in the intersection, according to court documents. The driver then made an erratic U-turn through a gas station, crossed the street and crashed into a light pole. Nobody was injured.

Holliday has five drunken-driving convictions. District Judge Gregory Todd kept his bail at $100,000 despite his lawyer arguing that Holliday's last such conviction was 14 years ago.

Do you see unicorns when your drunk?

Mouth to Snout On A Dog

Randy Gurchin is one happy felllow after saving his dogs life by preforming a form of C.P.R. to his English bulldog who was rescued after falling through the ice on a frozen lake. The dogs name is Lucy. Randy stated that Lucy was chasing ducks and geese on a lake when she fell through the ice. Randy is age 51, he is a disabled Air Force veteran who said that "once a pet is part of your family, you just tend to do whatever it takes to save their life." Randy covered lucy mouth with his hand and breathed air into her lungs through her nose.

Randy's wife and children were excited that he saved the dogs life but was questioning his risking of his own life on the ice. The dog was taken to a vetanarian where careful procedures were taken to prevent permanent damage.

It is nice to see that people take care of buisness when buisness needs taken care of. I think that I might have to agree with Randy, a dog is worth risking your life over when it is a member of your family. I guess one will never know until it comes time to save your my own pet.

This article is at: http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_2239264.html?menu=

Birth control for Squirrels

Palisades Park, the Santa Monica city park has a very high squirrel population and despite the park rangers’ attempts to control the population, the number of squirrels continues to grow. The park rangers have gasses, poisoned, and used euthanasia in attempts to stunt the population growth, now they are trying a new approach: birth control.

The park rangers plan to inject the squirrels with an immuno-contraceptive vaccine to stunt their sexual development, so they can not reproduce. This new approach is a compromise between health officials and animal-loving activist. The health officials claim that the squirrels pose a health threat because they are aggressive rodents that may carry rabies or diseased infested fleas. Among the diseases the fleas may carry is the Bubonic Plague. That sounds like a pretty serious health concern to me. Animal activists argue that the squirrel population is not a problem because the squirrels do not harm humans, but I think that being potential carriers of Bubonic Plague, also called the Black Death that killed one third of the population of Europe and Asia in the 14^th century, is a health risk that shouldn’t be overlooked.

If we are not allowed to carry sewing needles on airplanes because they are potential weapons, why are squirrels who potentially carry a disease plague allowed to live in a city park?

Here is the story:

http://cbs3.com/watercooler/watercooler_story_064081038.html

Tiger, orangutan babies become playmates at Indonesian zoo

When it comes to any baby animals, mostly felines, I melt down like a little girly girl. I'm one of those people who, if allowed, would own a baby tiger. Everyone says, "They're wild animals and will still have their wild instincts." Yes they will, but listen to this story.

"A pair of month-old Sumatran tiger twins have become inseparable playmates with a set of young orangutans, an unthinkable match in their natural jungle habitat in Indonesia's tropical rainforests." Sadly both we abandoned after birth by their mothers, but not to worry, they found each other for comfort. "This is unusual and would never happen in the wild," said zoo keeper Sri Suwarni, bottle-feeding a baby chimp on Wednesday. "Like human babies, they only want to play."

The four have lived side-by-side for a month without a single act of hostility, she said. Ok well, the hostility thing will definitely be short-lived, so rule out my, Gina have a tiger and hug it until it eats your head theory. I guess I will stick to petting one, even if that means losing my hand.

Go here for the story and video! - http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=bizarre&id=5077709