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Police seek help after nut theft, post mug shot of squirrel

SHELBY TOWNSHIP, Mich.

Police in suburban Detroit are having a little fun while asking for help from the public in figuring out who swiped roughly 28,000 pounds of packaged nuts.

The Shelby Township Police Department says a truck and trailer packed with 18 pallets of walnuts and other snack nuts were taken the weekend of June 27. Police say the truck and trailer were found last Wednesday in Detroit, but the nuts, worth more than $128,000, were gone.

The department issued an appeal Tuesday for information on its Facebook page – posting a mug shot of a squirrel along with details of the case.

Police in the Macomb County community have had a few noteworthy animal encounters recently, rounding up a goat in a parking lot and capturing a stray pig.

Police: Man breaks into Berlin restaurant, drinks Tabasco

BERLIN

A man is in hot water after purportedly stealing a bicycle, pitching it through a Berlin restaurant window, then entering and quaffing half a bottle of Tabasco sauce – telling authorities he was thirsty.

Police spokesman Jens Berger said Tuesday the 34-year-old was intoxicated, but it wasn’t clear why he went for the bottle of Tabasco to quench his thirst. He says the man may have mistaken it for a tiny bottle of liqueur, popular in Germany.

Neighbors alerted police overnight after hearing the window smash. The man was arrested inside the restaurant.

Berger says after telling police he had broken in because he was thirsty, he said all he wanted to do was sleep — and was given the opportunity in an overnight holding cell.

Split-colored lobster caught off Maine, 1-in-50 million find

SCARBOROUGH, Maine

A rare orange-brown split-colored lobster has turned up off the coast of Maine.

The Press Herald reports that the unusual lobster arrived last week at Pine Point Fisherman’s Co-Op in Scarborough.

According to research by the Lobster Institute, the chance of finding a split-colored lobster is 1 in 50 million.

The institute reports that only the albino lobster is rarer, with the chances of catching it at 1 in 100 million.

Associated Press