oddly enough

oddly enough

6-year-olds wander from Pa. school

PITTSBURGH

Pittsburgh Public Schools officials are investigating an impromptu field trip of sorts that occurred when two 6-year-old students wandered away from their school and walked to the city’s Children’s Museum a few blocks away.

District spokeswoman Ebony Pugh says she can’t specify what sort of discipline officials at Martin Luther King Elementary School will face for the incident Monday, because that’s a personnel matter.

A museum spokesman tells WTAE-TV that the students showed up at the museum about 2 p.m. Monday and asked if admission was free. When they were told no, the students ran into the museum until they were caught by security guards.

The school was locked down after a teacher noticed the students were missing.

Pugh says the school is developing a plan to prevent future incidents.

Cougar reluctant to leave cage in Wash.

EVERETT, Wash.

Wildlife agents in Washington state were ready to release a captured cougar back into the wild, but it didn’t want to go.

They banged on the back of the cage, poked the cougar with a pole and tried sliding the animal out by tilting the enclosure, but the young cougar wouldn’t budge.

The Daily Herald reports a puff of pepper spray finally drove the cougar into the woods near Arlington, about 50 miles north of Seattle.

Wildlife Officer Dave Jones fired bean-bag rounds to teach the female cougar to stay away from people. It had been captured after wandering too close to homes.

Wildlife officers estimated the 100-pound cat was about 2 years old — about the age when cougars are left by their mothers and have to find their own way.

Associated Press