ODDLY ENOUGH

ODDLY ENOUGH

Wayward deer crashes through window of store in Ore. city

ASHLAND, Ore.

A southern Oregon city says the nightlife in its downtown is more like wildlife.

The Ashland Daily Tidings reports that on July 3, a deer crashed through the window of Nimbus, a high-end clothing store downtown.

State wildlife biologist Mark Vargas says the doe likely had been spooked and didn’t see the glass.

A store saleswoman says the deer left no blood and didn’t appear seriously injured.

Police say several residents have been attacked by the animals this year, particularly while they were walking their dogs.

Local and state officials say killing the deer or using birth-control darts is difficult and probably wouldn’t solve the problem.

Ashland is next to forests that are full of deer.

Vargas says people need to stop feeding the animals and should scare them away.

Surprise! School janitor finds 3-foot python in locker

NEWTON, Mass.

A custodian cleaning out lockers at a Massachusetts high school was so shocked when a 3-foot-long snake fell at his feet that he didn’t even think it was real.

Ed Reardon tells The Daily News Tribune that at first he thought it was a change purse. Then he thought it was a rubber snake.

Then it coiled into attack mode.

Reardon didn’t panic.

He grabbed it behind the head as he had seen on nature TV shows. When he got off work at Newton North High School, he brought it to a local pet store, where workers identified it as a ball python.

Reardon thinks a student left the snake in the locker at the end of school as a prank.

He found a notebook in the same locker with a student’s name on it, and turned it over to the principal.

Truck driver chokes on pork rinds, ends up in a ditch

BLAINE, Wash.

A Washington State Patrol trooper says the driver of a FedEx tractor-trailer rig choked on some spicy pork rinds, lost control of his truck on an interstate and jackknifed it before coming to a stop in a muddy ditch.

Trooper Keith Leary says Edward Sutherland was driving his rig southbound from Blaine near the Canadian border Monday when he began choking and veered from the southbound lanes across the median into northbound lanes of Interstate 5.

The trooper says the truck didn’t hit any vehicles. Leary says the 42-year-old driver suffered minor injuries and will be cited for driving with wheels off the roadway.

Associated Press