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Geese, their waste invade Pennsylvania football field

NANTY GLO, Pa.

A western Pennsylvania high school football team had to move its scrimmage after geese – and the waste they leave behind – invaded its stadium.

WJAC-TV reports that Blacklick Valley High School moved Saturday’s scrimmage to a practice field by the school after the game field in Nanty Glo was deemed off-limits.

The field is owned by the borough 65 miles east of Pittsburgh and its recreation authority, but the school district will pay to have the goose waste removed.

Blacklick Valley Superintendent John Mastillo hopes workers will have the field cleaned up in time for the team’s home opener in a couple of weeks.

Mastillo says about 65 geese have taken over the field and may have been drawn by people feeding the birds.

Home Depot customers rattled by snake found in garden center

SPRING HILL, Tenn.

A section of a Home Depot store in central Tennessee was shut down recently after an astute customer noticed something suspicious in the store’s garden center: a rattlesnake.

Manager TJ Thompson told WKRN-TV that he shut down that section of the store and called wildlife experts, who quickly removed the intruder.

Animal Pro technician Adam Warden told WTVF-TV that the timber rattler wiggled furiously and tried to strike at the tongs used to remove it from beneath a store shelf.

The venomous snake is native to Tennessee, and officials think it might have crawled in from a nearby field.

Pig OK after flying out of trailer going 65 mph on highway

FORT COLLINS, Colo.

Maybe pigs can fly.

Authorities in northern Colorado say a 250-pound porker escaped relatively unscathed when it flew out of a trailer that was being pulled at about 65 mph on Interstate 25.

The Fort Collins Coloradoan reports the pig fell out of the trailer west of Windsor recently and took refuge under a tractor-trailer that had pulled up on the scene.

Colorado State Patrol Trooper G.A. Villavicencio says he has dealt with sheep and cows on roadways, but never pigs.

Sheriff’s deputies and road workers pulled the pig from under the truck by its hind legs. After a little squealing, it was checked out by a vet and returned to its owner.

The pig suffered some road rash to its ears and snout but otherwise was unhurt.

Associated Press