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"i kissed a snake and i liked it... the taste of its venom chap stick."
that was dramatic. still ready 2 die tho!
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A New Home
An attempt to kill bedbugs with gasoline led to an explosion and house fire Sunday, according to the Omaha fire Department.
Firefighters say one person was taken to the hospital with burn injured after a fire around 9 p.m. Sunday at a home near 39th and M streets.
Officials said the injured man was trying to use gasoline to kill a bedbugs infestation.
“The vapors ultimately ignited most probably by the pilot light of the water heater and an explosion occurred,” officials said in a statement Monday.
Two other people inside the home made it out safe and a fourth person wasn’t home at the time. Crews had the fire under control in about 9 minutes.
The fire dept. says the house was severely damaged by the pressure of the blast. All four residents were displaced.
He did, however, burn the bedbugs.
An attempt to kill bedbugs with gasoline led to an explosion and house fire Sunday, according to the Omaha fire Department.
Firefighters say one person was taken to the hospital with burn injured after a fire around 9 p.m. Sunday at a home near 39th and M streets.
Officials said the injured man was trying to use gasoline to kill a bedbugs infestation.
“The vapors ultimately ignited most probably by the pilot light of the water heater and an explosion occurred,” officials said in a statement Monday.
Two other people inside the home made it out safe and a fourth person wasn’t home at the time. Crews had the fire under control in about 9 minutes.
The fire dept. says the house was severely damaged by the pressure of the blast. All four residents were displaced.
He did, however, burn the bedbugs.
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The Mountain Lion Doesn't Strike Back
Biologists aren’t sure exactly when the cougar known as P-22 slipped away from under Jason and Paula Archinaco’s sleek, multi-level white contemporary in Los Feliz on Tuesday.
About 1 a.m., officials cleared the area and left P-22, who had startled the workers who came upon him in a crawl space, to find his way out. When officials returned a few hours later they could not locate the 6-year-old, 130-pound mountain lion.
About 11:30 a.m., Jeff Sikich, a wildlife biologist with the National Park Service’s Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area, reported that he had used telemetry gear to pick up a ping from P-22’s tracking collar in a remote canyon in Griffith Park, about 11/2 miles inside the park’s boundaries.
For three years, the animal has ranged the park. Surveillance camera video and data from P-22’s GPS tracking collar show that the Los Feliz neighborhood has also been a regular hangout. Lt. Marty Wall of the California Department of Fish and Wildlife speculated that P-22 might have been regularly using the crawl space of the house, which has frequently been vacant.
Wall said Tuesday that P-22 showed no signs of aggression when officials tried for hours to coax him out from under the house by launching beanbags and tennis balls at him and poking him with a stick — practices known as hazing.
He did not hiss or growl but “just moved from side to side,” Wall said.
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Wall had brought equipment to shoot the lion with a tranquilizing dart, but could not see beyond the lion’s eyes, forehead and ears.
“We need a haunch or a shoulder,” said Janice Mackey, an agency spokeswoman.
On Tuesday, after confirming P-22’s departure, the Archinacos blocked the crawl space to prevent his return.
Yangzom Brauen, a Swiss actress and activist, said that normally she is not frightened by the wild animals that roam her neighborhood’s narrow streets and undeveloped hillsides.
“We live here in a natural park so we live with the animals,” she said. “We are in their territory.”
She slept with her sliding door closed Monday night, however, after learning that the fully grown mountain lion had holed up nearby.
One animal-rescue activist questioned the decision by wildlife officials not to leave a warden posted nearby overnight.
“I am surprised that no law enforcement was assigned to watch for the animal leaving, to protect it from people,” said Rebecca Dmytryk, president and chief executive of the nonprofit Wildlife Emergency Services in Moss Landing, Calif. Dmytryk said she would have stationed a warden with night-vision goggles in a truck to confirm P-22’s departure.
Mackey defended her agency’s protocol.
Since 1986, she said, there have been 14 verified mountain lion attacks on people in California, three of them fatal.
“Lion attacks are rare,” she said. P-22 “wasn’t a lion that was threatening people.... If we can get a lion to return to his habitat on his own, we always strive for that.”
Occasionally, a nonaggressive mountain lion wanders into the wrong place at the wrong time. In March, a healthy young male found outside a Macy’s at a Riverside County mall died after a game warden shot it with a tranquilizer dart.
In December, Sikich successfully tranquilized and collared P-34, a young female mountain lion that residents of a Ventura County mobile home park saw under a trailer. She was returned to the wild.
Most mountain lions remain elusive and out of sight, Sikich noted. But “they are wild and unpredictable animals,” he added.
If anyone has reason to question the wisdom of letting a mountain lion roam through what has become human habitat, it would be Anne Hjelle of Mission Viejo.
On a sunny winter afternoon in January 2004, Hjelle and a friend headed out for a mountain bike ride in Orange County’s Whiting Ranch Wilderness Park. Barreling down a narrow dirt path, Hjelle saw a blur leaping from the brush. The mountain lion, she said later, hit her “like a train.”
The cougar tore at the left side of her face and sank its teeth repeatedly into her neck. Alerted by the screams of her and her friend, other cyclists pelted the cat with rocks until it ran away. Hours earlier, the same lion fatally mauled a male mountain biker. Authorities tracked and killed the lion.
Hjelle, 42, had six reconstructive surgeries and remains scarred. Yet she is remarkably charitable toward cougars.
“They come with the territory, so to speak,” she said Tuesday.
Biologists aren’t sure exactly when the cougar known as P-22 slipped away from under Jason and Paula Archinaco’s sleek, multi-level white contemporary in Los Feliz on Tuesday.
About 1 a.m., officials cleared the area and left P-22, who had startled the workers who came upon him in a crawl space, to find his way out. When officials returned a few hours later they could not locate the 6-year-old, 130-pound mountain lion.
About 11:30 a.m., Jeff Sikich, a wildlife biologist with the National Park Service’s Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area, reported that he had used telemetry gear to pick up a ping from P-22’s tracking collar in a remote canyon in Griffith Park, about 11/2 miles inside the park’s boundaries.
For three years, the animal has ranged the park. Surveillance camera video and data from P-22’s GPS tracking collar show that the Los Feliz neighborhood has also been a regular hangout. Lt. Marty Wall of the California Department of Fish and Wildlife speculated that P-22 might have been regularly using the crawl space of the house, which has frequently been vacant.
Wall said Tuesday that P-22 showed no signs of aggression when officials tried for hours to coax him out from under the house by launching beanbags and tennis balls at him and poking him with a stick — practices known as hazing.
He did not hiss or growl but “just moved from side to side,” Wall said.
lRelated Scientists track cougar's wild nightlife above Hollywood
Wall had brought equipment to shoot the lion with a tranquilizing dart, but could not see beyond the lion’s eyes, forehead and ears.
“We need a haunch or a shoulder,” said Janice Mackey, an agency spokeswoman.
On Tuesday, after confirming P-22’s departure, the Archinacos blocked the crawl space to prevent his return.
Yangzom Brauen, a Swiss actress and activist, said that normally she is not frightened by the wild animals that roam her neighborhood’s narrow streets and undeveloped hillsides.
“We live here in a natural park so we live with the animals,” she said. “We are in their territory.”
She slept with her sliding door closed Monday night, however, after learning that the fully grown mountain lion had holed up nearby.
One animal-rescue activist questioned the decision by wildlife officials not to leave a warden posted nearby overnight.
“I am surprised that no law enforcement was assigned to watch for the animal leaving, to protect it from people,” said Rebecca Dmytryk, president and chief executive of the nonprofit Wildlife Emergency Services in Moss Landing, Calif. Dmytryk said she would have stationed a warden with night-vision goggles in a truck to confirm P-22’s departure.
Mackey defended her agency’s protocol.
Since 1986, she said, there have been 14 verified mountain lion attacks on people in California, three of them fatal.
“Lion attacks are rare,” she said. P-22 “wasn’t a lion that was threatening people.... If we can get a lion to return to his habitat on his own, we always strive for that.”
Occasionally, a nonaggressive mountain lion wanders into the wrong place at the wrong time. In March, a healthy young male found outside a Macy’s at a Riverside County mall died after a game warden shot it with a tranquilizer dart.
In December, Sikich successfully tranquilized and collared P-34, a young female mountain lion that residents of a Ventura County mobile home park saw under a trailer. She was returned to the wild.
Most mountain lions remain elusive and out of sight, Sikich noted. But “they are wild and unpredictable animals,” he added.
If anyone has reason to question the wisdom of letting a mountain lion roam through what has become human habitat, it would be Anne Hjelle of Mission Viejo.
On a sunny winter afternoon in January 2004, Hjelle and a friend headed out for a mountain bike ride in Orange County’s Whiting Ranch Wilderness Park. Barreling down a narrow dirt path, Hjelle saw a blur leaping from the brush. The mountain lion, she said later, hit her “like a train.”
The cougar tore at the left side of her face and sank its teeth repeatedly into her neck. Alerted by the screams of her and her friend, other cyclists pelted the cat with rocks until it ran away. Hours earlier, the same lion fatally mauled a male mountain biker. Authorities tracked and killed the lion.
Hjelle, 42, had six reconstructive surgeries and remains scarred. Yet she is remarkably charitable toward cougars.
“They come with the territory, so to speak,” she said Tuesday.
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Return of the Body
It sounds like the plot for a science fiction movie.
Someone has a horrific accident and winds up in the hospital, brain dead and on life support. Doctors approach the family about organ donation, but instead of saving as many as eight lives, the family is asked to donate the whole body to save just one individual. Perhaps a quadriplegic with a mind that outmatches their malfunctioning body.
As crazy as this sounds, to put an entire head on a new body, a human body, Italian physician Dr. Sergio Canavero says we are approaching HEAVEN (an acronym for head anastomosis venture; anastomosis is surgically connecting two parts). The pieces are coming together but there are still many hurdles to jump.
Canavero says he has part of the funding secured, although he says he can't yet disclose where the money is coming from as a condition of the funding. He's also taking the 2015 layman's approach with crowd funding and book sales.
He has identified Valery Spiridonov as the first patient. The 30-year-old Russian man suffers from a rare genetic disorder called Werdnig-Hoffman disease. Canavero says the man volunteered. The two men have talked via Skype but they have yet to meet in person and Canavero has not reviewed Spiridonov's medical records.
Canavero says he has a stack of emails and letters from people who want this procedure. Many of them are transsexuals who want a new body, he says. But he insists the first patients will be people who are suffering from a muscle wasting disease.
Another big obstacle is the need for a partner. Canavero can't just do this in his own Frankenstein lab. He needs a major academic medical center to host this endeavor and he has his eyes set on the United States. He hopes to get a buy-in this summer when he presents his plan to the American Academy of Neurological and Orthopedic Surgeons, or AANOS, at its annual conference in June. He's counting on getting the green light he needs for the first human whole head transplant to take place in 2017.
Nick Rebel, executive director of AANOS, says the group is not endorsing Canavero, it is simply giving him a platform to hear what he has to say.
If Canavero doesn't get the support he needs in the United States, he'll look to China and his timeline will slide by a year.
Once these pieces are in place, Canavero says he'll put together a staff of 150 nurses and doctors. Many of them, like the patient, are already identified because they've asked to be part of this team.
Then they'll need to practice for what is anticipated to be a 36-hour operation. "I say two years is the time needed for the team to reach perfect synchronization," Canavero speculates.
But what about the science? Is such an idea even plausible? He says he has research that supports it.
Canavero points to Dr. Robert White, who transplanted the head of one monkey to the body of another at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in 1970. The monkey died after eight days, because the body rejected the new head. Before ithe monkey died, it could not move because the spinal cord of the head and body were not connected. The monkey also was unable to breathe on its own. The paper in which Canavero outlined his procedure references a different 1971 experiment White conducted with six monkey heads, none of which survived more than 24 hours. But Canavero says advances in science and medicine since then eliminate the problems White faced.
Dr. Hunt Batjer, chairman of neurological surgery at UT Southwestern and president-elect of the American Association for Neurological Surgeons, says White's research is not validation for a human head transplant. "[It's] a 45-year-old reference in a primate and there is no evidence that the spinal cord was anastomosed functionally," he says. Batjer further explains that it's a great leap to go from brain survival of the surgery to restoring body function, which White did not look at.
Canavero is confident in his writing and in conversation. He cites White's monkeys and even the success of German researchers who helped paralyzed rats walk, giving no pause to the fact that such research is more likely to go nowhere than to make it to human clinical trials.
He published his paper in the free, online, medical journal Surgical Neurology International in 2013. He walks readers through a scenario, outlining the key points that will make this work, including cooling the spinal cord before severing it. Doing so with an ultra-sharp blade will avoid the damage experienced by spinal cord injury patients, he says. He'll use a "magic ingredient" as a sealant to fuse the spinal cord back together and offers a few options for what that ingredient could be. The nerves, having been color-coded when separated, will be carefully aligned and this will all be done very quickly because time is key.
An impossibility, according to Batjer. He conceded that the airway, the spine, the major veins and arteries, can all be put back together, but the spinal cord is the problem. He says the result would be the inability to move or breathe.
"I would not wish this on anyone, I would not allow anyone to do it to me, there are a lot of things worse than death," Batjer says.
The science isn't there to support this, says Arthur Caplan, Ph.D., director of medical ethics at NYU Langone Medical Center. He says it's nothing more than a big PR stunt, and calls Canavero "nuts."
Caplan says this has to be done in many animals before it's tried on humans. Caplan also points out that if Canavero can do this, he should first be helping paralyzed patients by fixing their spinal cords, before transplanting whole bodies.
As for the patients, Caplan says, "their bodies would end up being overwhelmed with different pathways and chemistry than they are used to and they'd go crazy."
In his paper, Canavero says identity issues could be a problem as the head gets used to its new body. He also says pain could be a problem. As far as immunosuppression, Canavero points to today's transplant successes as evidence this is not a problem.
Caplan isn't buying it. He's seen how difficult it is for his NYU colleagues who perform face transplants. The levels of anti-rejection medications required are so high they put patients at risk for cancer and kidney problems. He says it doesn't make sense that you'd poison a new body with immunosuppressant medications to make a head transplant work.
Another issue Caplan has seen with face transplant patients is they don't always get full function of their new organ.
"It's not like you can unscrew your head and put it on someone else," Caplan says.
Dr. Robert Ruff, the Veterans Affairs national director for neurology, calls it farfetched and farcical, not to mention unlikely to work. He says this is more like centuries away, not years. "It would be impossible to predict that far into the future," Ruff says.
Canavero insists, though, "We can already do this."
The real horror story is seeing your dad walk up to you with someone else's head.
It sounds like the plot for a science fiction movie.
Someone has a horrific accident and winds up in the hospital, brain dead and on life support. Doctors approach the family about organ donation, but instead of saving as many as eight lives, the family is asked to donate the whole body to save just one individual. Perhaps a quadriplegic with a mind that outmatches their malfunctioning body.
As crazy as this sounds, to put an entire head on a new body, a human body, Italian physician Dr. Sergio Canavero says we are approaching HEAVEN (an acronym for head anastomosis venture; anastomosis is surgically connecting two parts). The pieces are coming together but there are still many hurdles to jump.
Canavero says he has part of the funding secured, although he says he can't yet disclose where the money is coming from as a condition of the funding. He's also taking the 2015 layman's approach with crowd funding and book sales.
He has identified Valery Spiridonov as the first patient. The 30-year-old Russian man suffers from a rare genetic disorder called Werdnig-Hoffman disease. Canavero says the man volunteered. The two men have talked via Skype but they have yet to meet in person and Canavero has not reviewed Spiridonov's medical records.
Canavero says he has a stack of emails and letters from people who want this procedure. Many of them are transsexuals who want a new body, he says. But he insists the first patients will be people who are suffering from a muscle wasting disease.
Another big obstacle is the need for a partner. Canavero can't just do this in his own Frankenstein lab. He needs a major academic medical center to host this endeavor and he has his eyes set on the United States. He hopes to get a buy-in this summer when he presents his plan to the American Academy of Neurological and Orthopedic Surgeons, or AANOS, at its annual conference in June. He's counting on getting the green light he needs for the first human whole head transplant to take place in 2017.
Nick Rebel, executive director of AANOS, says the group is not endorsing Canavero, it is simply giving him a platform to hear what he has to say.
If Canavero doesn't get the support he needs in the United States, he'll look to China and his timeline will slide by a year.
Once these pieces are in place, Canavero says he'll put together a staff of 150 nurses and doctors. Many of them, like the patient, are already identified because they've asked to be part of this team.
Then they'll need to practice for what is anticipated to be a 36-hour operation. "I say two years is the time needed for the team to reach perfect synchronization," Canavero speculates.
But what about the science? Is such an idea even plausible? He says he has research that supports it.
Canavero points to Dr. Robert White, who transplanted the head of one monkey to the body of another at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in 1970. The monkey died after eight days, because the body rejected the new head. Before ithe monkey died, it could not move because the spinal cord of the head and body were not connected. The monkey also was unable to breathe on its own. The paper in which Canavero outlined his procedure references a different 1971 experiment White conducted with six monkey heads, none of which survived more than 24 hours. But Canavero says advances in science and medicine since then eliminate the problems White faced.
Dr. Hunt Batjer, chairman of neurological surgery at UT Southwestern and president-elect of the American Association for Neurological Surgeons, says White's research is not validation for a human head transplant. "[It's] a 45-year-old reference in a primate and there is no evidence that the spinal cord was anastomosed functionally," he says. Batjer further explains that it's a great leap to go from brain survival of the surgery to restoring body function, which White did not look at.
Canavero is confident in his writing and in conversation. He cites White's monkeys and even the success of German researchers who helped paralyzed rats walk, giving no pause to the fact that such research is more likely to go nowhere than to make it to human clinical trials.
He published his paper in the free, online, medical journal Surgical Neurology International in 2013. He walks readers through a scenario, outlining the key points that will make this work, including cooling the spinal cord before severing it. Doing so with an ultra-sharp blade will avoid the damage experienced by spinal cord injury patients, he says. He'll use a "magic ingredient" as a sealant to fuse the spinal cord back together and offers a few options for what that ingredient could be. The nerves, having been color-coded when separated, will be carefully aligned and this will all be done very quickly because time is key.
An impossibility, according to Batjer. He conceded that the airway, the spine, the major veins and arteries, can all be put back together, but the spinal cord is the problem. He says the result would be the inability to move or breathe.
"I would not wish this on anyone, I would not allow anyone to do it to me, there are a lot of things worse than death," Batjer says.
The science isn't there to support this, says Arthur Caplan, Ph.D., director of medical ethics at NYU Langone Medical Center. He says it's nothing more than a big PR stunt, and calls Canavero "nuts."
Caplan says this has to be done in many animals before it's tried on humans. Caplan also points out that if Canavero can do this, he should first be helping paralyzed patients by fixing their spinal cords, before transplanting whole bodies.
As for the patients, Caplan says, "their bodies would end up being overwhelmed with different pathways and chemistry than they are used to and they'd go crazy."
In his paper, Canavero says identity issues could be a problem as the head gets used to its new body. He also says pain could be a problem. As far as immunosuppression, Canavero points to today's transplant successes as evidence this is not a problem.
Caplan isn't buying it. He's seen how difficult it is for his NYU colleagues who perform face transplants. The levels of anti-rejection medications required are so high they put patients at risk for cancer and kidney problems. He says it doesn't make sense that you'd poison a new body with immunosuppressant medications to make a head transplant work.
Another issue Caplan has seen with face transplant patients is they don't always get full function of their new organ.
"It's not like you can unscrew your head and put it on someone else," Caplan says.
Dr. Robert Ruff, the Veterans Affairs national director for neurology, calls it farfetched and farcical, not to mention unlikely to work. He says this is more like centuries away, not years. "It would be impossible to predict that far into the future," Ruff says.
Canavero insists, though, "We can already do this."
The real horror story is seeing your dad walk up to you with someone else's head.
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The Sneezing Menace (Sorry I forgot about episode I)
English police are searching for a slap-happy bandit wanted for hitting people who sneeze.
Police in Cumbria, are looking for a middle-aged man who has been accused of slapping people who sneezed in a Carlisle shopping center, Mirror reported Friday.
Witnesses say they saw the man slap two women last week after they had sneezed. One of the victims was an 82-year-old woman who was slapped in broad daylight.
“We are treating these two reported incidents as linked, and are appealing to the local community to help trace the man responsible,” Sgt Gill Cherry said. “It is very unusual behaviour, and will have left his victims feeling confused and upset.”
English police are searching for a slap-happy bandit wanted for hitting people who sneeze.
Police in Cumbria, are looking for a middle-aged man who has been accused of slapping people who sneezed in a Carlisle shopping center, Mirror reported Friday.
Witnesses say they saw the man slap two women last week after they had sneezed. One of the victims was an 82-year-old woman who was slapped in broad daylight.
“We are treating these two reported incidents as linked, and are appealing to the local community to help trace the man responsible,” Sgt Gill Cherry said. “It is very unusual behaviour, and will have left his victims feeling confused and upset.”
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Lizard Plays Thin Lizzard on Leaf Guitar
A Lizard was caught on camera apparently strumming a leaf to its heart's content.
The forest dragon lizard was spotted in the unusual pose by professional photographer Aditya Permana in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
The 33-year-old caught the comical snap earlier this week and watched the critter for more than an hour before it began practicing its chords.
And the tiny reptile seemed completely at ease as it performing to an audience and reclined on its back and clutched the leaf between its feet.
A Lizard was caught on camera apparently strumming a leaf to its heart's content.
The forest dragon lizard was spotted in the unusual pose by professional photographer Aditya Permana in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
The 33-year-old caught the comical snap earlier this week and watched the critter for more than an hour before it began practicing its chords.
And the tiny reptile seemed completely at ease as it performing to an audience and reclined on its back and clutched the leaf between its feet.
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ICAMENAL wrote:Lizard Plays Thin Lizzard on Leaf Guitar
A Lizard was caught on camera apparently strumming a leaf to its heart's content.
The forest dragon lizard was spotted in the unusual pose by professional photographer Aditya Permana in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
The 33-year-old caught the comical snap earlier this week and watched the critter for more than an hour before it began practicing its chords.
And the tiny reptile seemed completely at ease as it performing to an audience and reclined on its back and clutched the leaf between its feet.
rare image of me tbh
that was dramatic. still ready 2 die tho!
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Connecticut Homeowner Calls 911 to Report 3-Hour Stand-off with His Cat
Connecticut police have released a 911 call a homeowner made after his 8-pound cat turned violent and prevented him from entering the house.
CBS New York says Mohammed Lokman, of Stamford, was sitting in his car when he dialed 911 on his ferocious feline around 1:30 a.m. Wednesday.
“I have a problem in my house. I cannot go inside my house,” Lokman says to the dispatcher on the 911 call obtained by FOX CT.
“What’s the problem?” the dispatcher asks.
“The problem is my cat was getting too aggressive and she attacked me and scratched me in my leg and bit me. So me and my wife, we come outside and now we cannot go in the home for like three or four hours,” Lokman says from his car.
“Okay, and this is you said a cat?” the dispatcher says, sounding a little puzzled.
“Yeah.”
“Okay so where is the cat?”
“Sorry.”
“Where is the cat?”
“In my house.”
“Okay so you want the police to come and remove the cat? What is the problem, like …” the dispatcher asks.
Lokman told the dispatcher that he wanted police to remove the cat. He said he didn’t know why the pet was acting so strange. He said the cat had a kitten the night before and had been fine until she attacked him.
“It’s so aggressive and so mad,” Lokman told the dispatcher.
Katina WArgo with Stamford Animal Control told CBS New York the cat may have been trying to protect her kitten.
FOX CT said Lokman eventually got back inside with the help of officers sent to his home.
Sgt. Kelly Connelly told the Daily Voice in Stamford that the officers advised Lokman and the cat to stay away from each other for the remainder of the night.
Connecticut police have released a 911 call a homeowner made after his 8-pound cat turned violent and prevented him from entering the house.
CBS New York says Mohammed Lokman, of Stamford, was sitting in his car when he dialed 911 on his ferocious feline around 1:30 a.m. Wednesday.
“I have a problem in my house. I cannot go inside my house,” Lokman says to the dispatcher on the 911 call obtained by FOX CT.
“What’s the problem?” the dispatcher asks.
“The problem is my cat was getting too aggressive and she attacked me and scratched me in my leg and bit me. So me and my wife, we come outside and now we cannot go in the home for like three or four hours,” Lokman says from his car.
“Okay, and this is you said a cat?” the dispatcher says, sounding a little puzzled.
“Yeah.”
“Okay so where is the cat?”
“Sorry.”
“Where is the cat?”
“In my house.”
“Okay so you want the police to come and remove the cat? What is the problem, like …” the dispatcher asks.
Lokman told the dispatcher that he wanted police to remove the cat. He said he didn’t know why the pet was acting so strange. He said the cat had a kitten the night before and had been fine until she attacked him.
“It’s so aggressive and so mad,” Lokman told the dispatcher.
Katina WArgo with Stamford Animal Control told CBS New York the cat may have been trying to protect her kitten.
FOX CT said Lokman eventually got back inside with the help of officers sent to his home.
Sgt. Kelly Connelly told the Daily Voice in Stamford that the officers advised Lokman and the cat to stay away from each other for the remainder of the night.
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~Approximately 6 week break from these, as it takes forever to type with one hand.
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The Spaghetti Sandwich
From the Ramen Burger to Nutelasagna, the city has seen oodles of noodle-based culinary mashups in the past year, each attempting to push the palate while using one of comfort food’s most flexible — literally — canvases.
Now, a beloved Franken-bite born in Long Island City is making a comeback — and reminding everyone that it came first.
After great demand and an online outcry, M. Wells Dinette (22-25 Jackson Ave., Long Island City), the French-Canadian restaurant inside MoMA PS1, has put its Spaghetti Bolognese Sandwich back on the menu.
The restaurant stopped serving the sandwich about a year ago to focus on seasonal fare, but last week it restored the sammy to the lunch service, and diners are already ravenous for it.
Customers are queuing up en masse to try the fabled bun buster, with the restaurant selling as many as 100 per day.
“It’s been insane,” says Aidan O’Neal, chef at M. Wells. “We’ll get get a ticket to fire up seven at a time for one table, and then another will come in, and another.”
O’Neal admits that he wasn’t a fan of the sandwich concept when M. Wells owner Hugue Dufour came up with it four years ago.
“We cooks all kind of scoffed at the idea,” he says. “But he was right; it’s very, very good.”
To make the sandwich, the chef begins with “a really classic tomato sauce that’s just garlic, tomatoes and olive oil.” then combines the red gravy with pecorino cheese and chopped cooked pasta. The mixture is then lightly coated in egg and baked for 10 minutes inside of a blini pan to form a patty.
“The result is crispy on the outside, and very juicy on the inside,” says O’Neal, 29. “We serve it on a toasted onion roll with extremely delicious garlic butter and a layer of chopped Caesar salad with red pepper flakes.”
Served in a basket alongside a pile of housemade potato chips, the meal is definitely not for the faint of carb — which may be part of its winter-menu appeal.
During one lunch service this week, nearly every other seat at the restaurant was littered with remains from the $13 repast.
“It seems like a strange idea that shouldn’t work, but it did,” says Sophia Flood, 30, a Brooklyn artist who had just cleaned her plate. “I really liked how crispy it was, with lots of different textures.”
Jason Nickel, 43, an installer at MoMA PS1, flashed the hand gesture for OK from the other end of the table.
“I devoured mine,” the Queens resident says proudly. “It was great.”
For his part, O’Neal is amused at the enthusiastic reaction. “The positive response has been very flattering,” he says. “It’s funny that such a silly sandwich can get people so excited.”
From the Ramen Burger to Nutelasagna, the city has seen oodles of noodle-based culinary mashups in the past year, each attempting to push the palate while using one of comfort food’s most flexible — literally — canvases.
Now, a beloved Franken-bite born in Long Island City is making a comeback — and reminding everyone that it came first.
After great demand and an online outcry, M. Wells Dinette (22-25 Jackson Ave., Long Island City), the French-Canadian restaurant inside MoMA PS1, has put its Spaghetti Bolognese Sandwich back on the menu.
The restaurant stopped serving the sandwich about a year ago to focus on seasonal fare, but last week it restored the sammy to the lunch service, and diners are already ravenous for it.
Customers are queuing up en masse to try the fabled bun buster, with the restaurant selling as many as 100 per day.
“It’s been insane,” says Aidan O’Neal, chef at M. Wells. “We’ll get get a ticket to fire up seven at a time for one table, and then another will come in, and another.”
O’Neal admits that he wasn’t a fan of the sandwich concept when M. Wells owner Hugue Dufour came up with it four years ago.
“We cooks all kind of scoffed at the idea,” he says. “But he was right; it’s very, very good.”
To make the sandwich, the chef begins with “a really classic tomato sauce that’s just garlic, tomatoes and olive oil.” then combines the red gravy with pecorino cheese and chopped cooked pasta. The mixture is then lightly coated in egg and baked for 10 minutes inside of a blini pan to form a patty.
“The result is crispy on the outside, and very juicy on the inside,” says O’Neal, 29. “We serve it on a toasted onion roll with extremely delicious garlic butter and a layer of chopped Caesar salad with red pepper flakes.”
Served in a basket alongside a pile of housemade potato chips, the meal is definitely not for the faint of carb — which may be part of its winter-menu appeal.
During one lunch service this week, nearly every other seat at the restaurant was littered with remains from the $13 repast.
“It seems like a strange idea that shouldn’t work, but it did,” says Sophia Flood, 30, a Brooklyn artist who had just cleaned her plate. “I really liked how crispy it was, with lots of different textures.”
Jason Nickel, 43, an installer at MoMA PS1, flashed the hand gesture for OK from the other end of the table.
“I devoured mine,” the Queens resident says proudly. “It was great.”
For his part, O’Neal is amused at the enthusiastic reaction. “The positive response has been very flattering,” he says. “It’s funny that such a silly sandwich can get people so excited.”
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