oddly enough

oddly enough

Flying squirrel invades New Jersey emergency room

RAHWAY, N.J.

Firefighters were needed after a flying squirrel went nuts in a New Jersey hospital’s emergency room.

The squirrel kept launching itself from an 8-foot-high wall-mounted lamp into a glass wall after becoming trapped in a trauma room at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in Rahway on Tuesday night.

Fire-department spokesman Capt. Ted Padavano told The Star-Ledger of Newark it would climb up on a light and jump off and glide.

Two firefighters threw a blanket over the squirrel and released it into a wooded area outside the hospital.

Padavano thinks there may be a nest in the building because it’s the second time in two weeks that a flying squirrel got into the ER.

Probation for killing of prized cow, other Pa. crimes

SOMERSET, Pa.

A western Pennsylvania man who killed and butchered a prize-winning cow along with committing five other vandalism-related crimes involving a vacant-house fire and vehicles damaged by shooting must spend five years on probation and perform 100 hours of community service.

The Daily American reports 20-year-old Graysen Randy Anderson, of Somerset, was sentenced Tuesday. He had pleaded guilty to felony agricultural vandalism and other charges in September.

Police say Anderson and two other men killed the prize-winning cow overnight June 25-26, 2010. Police say Anderson and the others butchered the Angus cross-breeding cow in a field at Wheeler Show Cattle in Somerset Township and were cooking the beef when troopers arrived at a home to question the men.

Associated Press