Mommy raccoon and her two baby raccoons must scale a wall. One little raccoon holds onto mommy's tail while mommy hangs down to pick up the other sibling. The trio are now offering consulting services to organizations in need of staff development.
Police officer Chris Williams recorded this footage at Camdenton High School in Camdenton, Missouri.
Enormous bears are a nuisance to the humans of Steamboat Springs, Colorado. It's necessary to shoo them away from time to time. This man takes care of business in the morning by politely but firmly ejecting an ursine squatter from his dumpster.
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Not everyone meets his father when he's born. It took Imgur member Therealkaratekid 20 years to meet the man who became his dad:
For 20 years I never had a father. I never met him. Heard of his name. Seen a picture. I was in a terrible home. So at age 15 I decided to run away. I graduated high school with AP credit and Honors. So even though I was homeless and bouncing from friends house to house. When I was 17 I heard my mother was incarcerated for drunk driving. I was officially alone. I always wanted to take martial arts but obviously too poor. Graduated high school got a job and started saving money for lessons. I started at age 20 and 4 months later I met this guy. Grandmaster Ji. He asked me what my dreams were or goals. He said he felt that I had hardships that most didn't know. I told him I wanted to become a Master of martial arts and run a school. He told me from that day forward two things would happen. One, that he would make me a master and two, that I would called his son from now on. This is a true father to me. He is a wonderful example of love and justice and doing the right thing. Just wanted to share this with some people. I love my dad and it took me 20 years to meet him.
There's too much dust in the air right now.
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That's annoying for Daenerys. But it gets even harder for a girl who has no name. The baristas always spell it wrong.
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In 1804, Vice President Aaron Burr killed former Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton in a duel. They were bitter enemies, but that's not an issue for their descendants, Alexandra Hamilton Woods and Antonio Burr.
Woods is the great great great great great ganddaughter of Hamilton. Antonio Burr is a descendant of a cousin of Aaron Burr. Both are psychologists in New York City. They met by chance several years ago and found a mutal interest in kayaking and canoeing. Now the pair paddle around together as members of the Inwood Canoe Club of Manhattan. The New York Post quotes Hamilton's descendant:
“I used to tease him about our respective history,” Hamilton Woods says. “We’ve had a number of interesting conversations. But I have great fondness and respect for Antonio.”
Both of them are members and officers in their canoe club. Although they sometimes have disagreements, they resolve them without bloodshed:
The two friends now find themselves in their own political situation. Hamilton Woods sits on the Inwood Canoe Club board as treasurer, and Burr is the president emeritus. They might have the occasional disagreement, but they settle things peacefully.
“We do a lot of negotiating,” says Hamilton Woods. “But he and I find ourselves usually on the same side.”
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A man in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada was having trouble finding a job because he had a brain injury. Lowe's, a hardware store chain, offered him a job--and then signed on his servce dog, too!
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His name is Blue. Like other Lowe's employees, he walks around in a uniform vest. Lowe's made a custom one for Blue.
I'm not surprised. Lowe's is a very dog-friendly company. My parents visit their local store often and usually bring their dog along. He gets excited and starts barking whenever they drive into the Lowe's parking lot.
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The auction house Cooper Hewitt offers for sale this unusual piece of furniture. It's called a cockfight chair.
When it was made in the 1720s or 30s in England, reading was becoming increasingly popular for gentlemen. When a man wished to read, he would place a book on the back board, then straddle the chair in a Riker Maneuver. He could place his arms on the rests and keep writing implements on the small shelf.
How did it get the name "cockfight chair"? The Handbook of Antique Chairs explains that "Fops would recline on the chair between bouts and rise, straddling the saddle, to watch the bird-killing sport."
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As you get older, it can be nice to spend a quiet evening at home drinking wine with friends and family. But your friends and family members can't drink wine because they are cats.
Now there's a solution to this problem. Apollo Peak, a company in Colorado, has created a wine-like beverage for cats. It's non-alcoholic beet juice, so, like your relationships, it's not quite the real thing. But the product is close enough and comes in flavors that your cats will enjoy, including Pinot Meow and MosCATo.
-via @ClarkHat
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Rocket News 24 tells us about Tempura Matsu, a restaurant in Kyoto that merges traditional Japanese style and cuisine with radical innovation. For example, it serves udon noodles in slabs of ice with bowl-like concavities. The hot noodles cool in the ice, which adds to the broth as the ice melts. I want to try it!
Redditor -yenn- snapped this beautiful photo from Naples, Italy. Here is Mount Vesuvius, a volcano, framed within a full rainbow. Enjoy the view, but don't get too close. Volcanos are sneaky, especially this one (look at what happened to Pompeii).
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This is a baobab tree near Wyndham, Western Australia. Like most baobabs, it has an enormous trunk. What makes it unusual is that it has a hollow center. It's a little living cave.
This proved handy to police in the 1890s who needed to lock up prisoners while out in the bush. That's why they temporarily sealed arrested suspects inside while awaiting more permanent housing. It has about 100 square feet of interior space, which was sometimes used to hold up to 30 prisoners at a time. An iron gate sealed people inside. That's why it's called the Wyndham Prison Tree.
There is another baobab near Derby, Western Australia, which is also called a prison tree. But its use as a prison is probably apocryphal.
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NBC New York (auto-start) reports that trucks carrying deli meat and bread crashed together on a highway in New Jersey on Friday morning. There were no injuries, but there was a delicious mess as the two ingredients combined into plain but edible sandwiches. Highway workers cleaned up the mess by 7:30 AM, hopefully not getting too hungry in the process.
Now I'm off to try to arrange simultaneous crashes with trucks carrying corned beef, sauerkraut, Swiss cheese, and Thousand Island salad dressing.
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At least I assume that this gentleman in China is using telepathy or magic. It's got to be one of the two. He flips what appears to be cookies over and into patterns with phenomenal skill. Each one moves precisely where he wants it to. Like many street cooks, he's as much a performer as a chef.
-via Atlas Obscura
"Excuse me, sir. Can I interest you in some Lizard Scout cookies?"
Attanai Thaiyuanwong of Samutprakarn, Thailand was not interested, though he and his neighbors know this particular giant monitor lizard well. In fact, they've named it Selena after singer Selena Gomez.
Selena (the lizard, not the human) tried to get inside Thaiyuanwong's house through the front door, but was unable to do so. Giant monitor lizards are deadly predators that sometimes prey on humans, so Thaiyuanwong took immediate and decisive action against this threat: he recorded a video and posted it on Faceook.
He also tried to lasso Selena. You can see how well that went in this video.
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Why do you have to go through the hassle of putting your belongings through an x-ray machine whenever you enter a courthouse? This is why. Someone might try to slip a dangerous iguana into the bowels of justice. So it's a good thing that the deputy sheriffs of Boulder County, Colorado were paying close attention. The Daily Camera quotes a police representative:
"At the Justice Center only service animals are allowed. No iguanas...even if it goes through the X-ray machine."
Boulder County sheriff's spokeswoman Carrie Haverfield said the person was turned away.
"Apparently he was there with some friends, so he waited outside with his iguana," Haverfield said.
-via Dave Barry
