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Selfies with suburban Atlanta gator? Bad idea, police warn

PEACHTREE CITY, Ga.

Fearing Snapchat could take an ugly turn toward “snap chomp,” police are warning people not to take selfies with an alligator in suburban Atlanta.

Peachtree City police also advise residents not to feed the 6-foot gator known as “Flat Creek Floyd” as he soaks in the sun on Flat Creek, about 30 miles southwest of downtown Atlanta.

Peachtree City Police Lt. Mark Brown tells WSB-TV that the gator’s presence has “gone a little crazy” on social media.

Police say that when Floyd was spotted earlier this month, it was the first alligator sighting in the area in five years. Gators are common in parts of south Georgia, but are not usually seen in metro Atlanta.

Video of Army airborne drop shows Humvees falling from sky

BERLIN

A U.S. Army airborne exercise in Germany is attracting more than a million viewers on social media after a video surfaced showing a Humvee breaking free of its rigging and plummeting to the ground, followed by another – and another.

By Friday afternoon, the video posted on the Facebook group U.S. Army W.T.F.! moments had 1.5 million views.

The scene starts serenely as equipment is dropped by parachute April 11 from planes with the 173rd Airborne Brigade flying across blue skies until the first Humvee breaks free and drops and someone yells out, “Oh yes!”

It’s followed by a second, then a third and increasing laughter on the video.

The Army says nobody was hurt, and it’s investigating what went wrong – and who shot the video.

Ice cream in a former funeral parlor? A taste to die for

CHICOPEE, Mass.

The owner of a new western Massachusetts ice cream shop says his delicious dishes are “a taste to die for.”

That’s because Petros Mirisis is opening his ice cream parlor in a former funeral home in Chicopee.

Mirisis, who already owns a restaurant in town, tells westernmassnews.com he loves taking his three daughters out for ice cream, but it’s always been hard to find a place. He drove past the old funeral home every day on his way to work and always thought it was a great place for a business, in the heart of the city and across the street from the library.

His catchphrase came to him in a moment of inspiration.

Petros Ice Cream is expected to open soon.

Associated Press