If you’re visiting Fukuoka, Japan, on a budget, there’s a hotel that has you covered: you can stay for a paltry 100 yen a night (about $1.20 Canadian). The catch? Visitors must agree to let the hotel live-stream their stay on its YouTube channel. So far, more than half a million viewers have tuned in to watch strangers sip tea, read and, once, watch a guest attempt to play Twister by himself. (Don’t worry, the bathroom is private!) —Megan Murphy
July 15 (UPI) — California and federal wildlife officials have vowed to do everything possible to safely capture a sea otter that has been “aggressively” approaching surfers and kayakers in the Pacific Ocean near Santa Cruz.
The California Department of Fish and Wildlife and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Friday they will do the best they can to capture the 5-year-old female otter, which has been making news by biting surfboards and exhibiting other aggressive behavior.
Known as Otter 841, the animal was born at the Monterey Bay Aquarium but was released into the wild in 2021.
The organizations say a team of capture specialists from the CDFW and the Monterey Bay Aquarium has been trying to catch the otter since July 2, but has been unsuccessful.
Earlier this week, officials used a dummy surfer to try and lure the otter but were unable to do so.
Monterey Bay Aquarium Sea Otter Program Manger Jess Fuji says that “although this otter was born in an animal care facility, she was raised by her mother with minimal human contact.”
“Upon capture, the sea otter will undergo a health assessment and eventually be re-homed in a zoo or aquarium,” state and federal wildlife officials said in a joint statement issued Friday.
RENO, Nev. (AP) — A revoked Nevada license plate that was meant to “drive away” Californians is getting one last chance to go back on the streets.
The plate — which reads “GOBK2CA,” short for “Go back to California” — was recalled by the state Department of Motor Vehicles in May after it received a complaint, KOLO-TV first reported. Now the vehicle owner is appealing the recall and will have a hearing on Wednesday, according to the Reno-area news station.
A section of the Nevada Administrative Code applied to the recall prohibits defamatory references to a person or group.
“In this case, the defamed group is Californians,” DMV spokesperson Eli Rohl told the Las Vegas Review-Journal. He adding that the department “regularly” turns down license plates that share the same message.
A special license committee meets every Monday to review reported license plates, before determining which ones violate Nevada statute.
A woman literally got caught in a sticky situation inside a Walmart bathroom in Kentucky. She sat down on the toilet and couldn’t get up for 60 minutes.
The unidentified woman was using the restroom in the Monticello store earlier this month when she found that she was glued to the seat, the New York Daily News reported.
Paramedics were called to the scene of the grime after someone heard the woman screaming from the toilet stall. They needed an hour to remove her from the toilet — with the toilet seat still attached to her buttocks, according to AzCentral.com. The seat was removed from the lady’s posterior in a hospital emergency room.
Officials suspect the gluing may have been done on purpose, but don’t want to accuse anyone at this point, according to Lex18.com.
Meanwhile, putting Super Glue on a toilet is considered a crime, and Lt. Matthew Donnelly of the Elkton Police Department in Kentucky told the paper that the perpetrator could face second-degree assault charges.
A Kentucky woman who allegedly tried to strangle another woman with a bra was thwarted when the victim fought back with a ceramic chicken.
Police in Lexington arrested Ashley Sies, 31, early Monday morning after she allegedly pushed her way into a home belonging to Patricia Leece, 61.
“It happened about 12:30 the other night. Someone came to my doors, banging, screaming and hollering,” Leece told WKYT.
Sies and Leece struggled for about 15 to 20 minutes before the victim found a way to protect herself, Leece says.
“Finally, I saw one of my (ceramic) chickens on the floor so I picked it up and started bashing her on the head with it,” she said, according to UPI.com.
Sies was knocked out by the chicken. Leece locked herself in the bathroom and called police, Kentucky.com reports.
Officers then took Sies to the hospital before booking her on charges of first-degree burglary, WKYT reports. Leece told the station she also plans to press charges for the attack.
Sies was in court Tuesday morning where she pleaded not guilty to the burglary charge, according to Kentucky.com.
LUBBOCK, TEXAS – James Morrison walked up to the counter at Kwik-O Foods in Lubbock to pay for a Pepsi and a box of Little Debbie Strawberry Shortcake Rolls when he got a shocking surprise.
“I pulled out my money clip to pay, it was payday and I happened to have five hundred dollars all in twenties, and the convenience store clerk pulled a .357 on me and told me to hand over my money clip,” Morrison said.
The female clerk then asked for Morrison’s keys to his Harley Davidson and sped off with the loot. “I was stunned. Money, motorcycle. And to add insult to injury, she said I was ugly and should kill myself before she ran out.”
The suspect has been identified as Amanda Jensen, 44, who had only been with Kwik-O Foods a week. She has a prior criminal history of robbery, prostitution and animal abuse.
This reject definitely has his type.
That would be INFLATABLE RAFTS.
Edwin Tobergta, 35, was arrested in Hamilton, Ohio on Wednesday for allegedly having sex with an inflatable pool raft by the side of the road, Fox 19 reports. This is the fourth time Tobergta has been arrested getting busy with an inflatable raft.
In 2011, Tobergta was caught with his pants around his ankles in an alley with his neighbor’s pink, inflatable raft.
“She is really, really pretty,” he told the arresting officer.
in 2013 for having sex with the EXACT SAME RAFT, which had inexplicably not been thrown out.
He told the judge, “I can’t get that raft out of my mind. She’s really, really pretty.”
The 2013 offense occurred at Tobergta’s own home, but he was charged with — and pleaded guilty to — public indecency because it happened within the view of children during the day. He was also wearing a woman’s bikini and baseball cap that said, “Bet Mine’s Longer Than Yours.”
It is unclear if Tobergta’s most recent alleged offense took place with the same pool raft, but he does seem to be in love with it. Apparently, he’s named it Debbie.
In 2002, Tobergta was arrested for publicly pleasuring himself with an inflatable Santa Clause in the snow. Why not an inflatable raft?
“Santa Clause is hot. And he said if I made him feel good he’d buy me a gun for Christmas,” he told arresting officers.
In his latest mugshot, Tobergta is wearing a T-shirt that reads, “I’m out of my mind. Please leave a message.”
BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA —
According to a news report from WVTV-Birmingham, Ryan Gastin couldn’t stop cheating on this wife of 12 years.
“I was out of control. I was cheating on her three nights a week, men, women, I didn’t care. I might have done it with a monkey. I was that far beyond help.”
His wife Liz Gastin said she would often smell perfume or cologne on her husband after he swore off cheating.
“I decided to pack up our six kids and move to my mother’s house. But that’s when Ryan did something drastic and proved that he really loved me.”
“I had myself castrated. But the doctor said I might still be able to get an erection even with the testies gone, so I had the penis removed too. It totally erased my drive. I no longer want to cheat on my beautiful wife. There will be no more tears in this household.”
How will Mrs. Gastin feel no longer being able to have relations with her husband?
“Oh, there are other ways to do it. And I wanted more children, so I’m robbed of that unless we adopt. The way I see it after all that he’s done, it’s his job to pleasure me now. He doesn’t deserve to feel pleasure. But at least I know that he truly loves me. He now calls me ‘his forever.’”
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA – A yard fire spread quickly when a woman, Stacey Jones, tried to extinguish it with water from her dog’s bowl, which was filled with gasoline.
The fire started in the shrubs behind her house after Jones flicked a cigarette butt that went a little too far.
“The fire just went voom,” she said.
From there the fire quickly engulfed the house.
Investigators say the mother’s 33-year-old daughter mistakenly filled the water bowl with gas from a nearby canister.
“My daughter has a drug and drink problem and has bipolar disorder and ADHD and narcissistic personality disorder. She sometimes gets things mixed up. She also claims she talks to the spirit world,” Jones said. “Maybe a spirit voice told her to fill the dog’s bowl with gas.”
Firefighters responded to the fire around 10:30 a.m. Sunday. It took about an hour for crews to put out the fire, which had spread to the neighbor’s house. Nobody was hurt at either house, except for Jones’ dog who died in the fire.
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL —
We’ve all wanted to slap a porcupine at one time or another, but when this man tried, he discovered the pain wasn’t worth the slap.
Family man Antonio Rodrigues Mororó, 50, took action during a party at this home after one of his sons complained to him that his pregnant wife was afraid to enter the house because of a porcupine she said was barking like a dog (they don’t bark like dogs).
Mr Mororó, from Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, went to slap the creature away and got pricked. Instead of scaring the animal, he ended up with 400 porcupine quills in his hand. Despite going to the local hospital, where he received three shots of anesthetic, the pain continued.
“Me dolía realmente malo. Mi mano se sentía como si estuviera en llamas,” Mororó said.
Mr Mororó was forced to get a tenanus shot and antibiotics, which he initially refused.
“Yo no creo en las drogas. Sólo rememidies naturales,” he said.
He is currently recovering.
Persecution Live 