‘Fruity fracas’ breaks out in New Hampshire supermarket [News of the Weird] – Reading Eagle
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The Laconia (New Hampshire) Daily Sun reported on Jan. 5 that police were called to the Market Basket supermarket in Tilton the day before after a “fruity fracas” broke out in the produce section. Social media posts indicated that a watermelon had been used in an assault, and Sgt. Andrew Salmon of the Tilton Police Department confirmed that his department is investigating. Salmon said one person went to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries “from being struck by a produce item.”
A worker who answered the phone at the Market Basket said, “We have been instructed not to say anything.”
King, a rescue dog at the Lost Our Home Pet Rescue in Tempe, Ariz., enjoyed a brief reign among his shelter buddies, Fox10-TV reported on Jan. 11. Sometime around midnight, King managed to break out of his kennel at the shelter and busted out several other dogs. He also found a stash of food and enjoyed a little feast. In the meantime, alarms were triggered; Jodi Polanski, the shelter’s founder, looked at video from the scene and saw the mess.
“The police actually came because he set the alarm off,” Polanski said.
The unnamed responding officer cleaned up after King’s free-for-all and got the dog settled back in bed.
“I was just like, wow, amazing man that he did that,” Polanski said.
The rescue’s website indicates that King is no longer looking for a home.
LuLu Lotus of Mississauga, Ontario, has earned a Guinness World Record for an impressive, if dubious, skill: She blew a 44.1-decibel whistle through her nose. United Press International reported on Jan. 9 that Lotus visited Aercoustics Engineering Ltd. to have her whistle measured in a special room. She said her 5-year-old son has recently discovered he, too, has a nose-whistling ability:
“It would be a dream come true if he beat my record one day,” Lotus said.
The story about the Alaska Airlines plane that lost a panel while flying at 16,000 feet is all over the news. But it’s the little human-interest stories that really capture us: When the panel flew off and the hole gaped open midair on Jan. 5, someone’s iPhone got sucked out and landed on a roadside in Washington state, Yahoo! News reported. Sean Bates, who found the phone, posted a photo on X showing the phone’s intact screen and a battery life of 44% remaining: “Pretty clean, no scratches on it, sitting under a bush,” he posted. Jennifer Homendy of the NTSB said all found phones would be returned to their owners.
Kathleen Murray of Sandford, Tasmania, credits bandicoots for helping her win the first-ever World’s Ugliest Lawn competition, The Guardian reported on Jan. 11. The marsupials, Murray said, have “actually liberated me from ever having to mow it again. I’m all for guilt-free weekends, especially since my ex-husband left with the lawnmower back in 2016.”
(That must have been a good-looking Toro!) The contest began as Gotland’s (Sweden) Ugliest Lawn, which was conceived to encourage water-saving and environmentally friendly gardening in 2022.
“All of (the lawns) were hideous and well worthy of winning, but the winning entry was really, really bad,” said Gotland’s Mimmi Gibson.
“It brings me a lot of joy to see all the little creatures who now feel safe to come out during the day in my yard,” Murray said.
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