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[Ming]

Sweet-toothed bear raids South Lake Tahoe ice cream shop, leaves with a taste for strawberry

A bear was discovered satisfying its sweet tooth behind the counter of an ice cream parlor in a California resort city on Lake Tahoe last week, authorities said.

Deputies responded to an ice cream shop at Camp Richardson in South Lake Tahoe in the early morning hours on Aug. 17 and found a large bear, the El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office said in a Facebook post on Tuesday.

"The deputies could barely believe their eyes as they saw a large bear behind the counter of the shop," the sheriff’s office wrote in the post.

Photos show the bear, who the sheriff’s office nicknamed Fuzzy, standing behind the parlor’s counter as if he were an employee waiting to serve the responding deputies.

Fuzzy had already sampled a variety of flavors before deputies could arrive and shoo it away, though the sheriff’s office said it appeared to prefer one sweet treat.

"With some encouragement, the bear ultimately left, but only after showing interest in the strawberry ice cream," authorities said.

The ice cream shop sustained little damage during the bear’s ice cream raid, and there was "barely any cleanup," the sheriff’s office said.

Camp Richardson is a 128-acre resort in South Lake Tahoe, about 66 miles south of Reno, Nevada.

[Jon Miller]

In Sweden most people don't beleive in God and so churches are primarily social centers.

JM

[EPW]

Wow what an amazing performance.

[The Mad Monk]

It's a swedish article about moving a 650t church with a similiar sized "truck" - don't bother to read, just click at the video
https://www.svt.se/nyheter/lokalt/no...g-i-rekordfart

Followup where the Church stops rolling and a band plays. Totally worth watching for the band.



BTW -- on Firefox a popup lets you translate.

[Uncle Sparky]

Churches move in strange and mysterious ways...

[BeBMan]

There's a German saying about "leaving the church in the village".

Which is totally irrelevant here, buuut

[EPW]

They could have saved a lot of effort by just not moving it.

[BeBMan]

I missed it

https://lkab.com/en/events/the-moving-of-kiruna-church

[N35t0r]

I was about to say that that's swedish, you can tell because they don't sound like they have a potato in their mouth.

[Dauphin]

(I don't read Swedish either, more pertinently)

[Dauphin]

I don't read Danish (albeit 'kostar over en half miljard' is highly intelligible to an Englishman!), but I do hope they call it a holy roller.

[BlackCat]

It's a swedish article about moving a 650t church with a similiar sized "truck" - don't bother to read, just click at the video

https://www.svt.se/nyheter/lokalt/norrbotten/se-kyrkan-rora-sig-i-rekordfart

[BeBMan]

Some Chinese have found the ultimate answer to unemployment - they pay to pretend it's not happening

No-one would want to work without getting a salary, or even worse – having to pay to be there.

Yet paying companies so you can pretend to work for them has become popular among young, unemployed adults in China. It has led to a growing number of such providers.

The development comes amid China's sluggish economy and jobs market. Chinese youth unemployment remains stubbornly high, at more than 14%.

(snisnap)

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdd3ep76g3go

[Ming]

Camper's 'repeated cries' spark rescue mission—but he was singing songs by infamous rock band
New York Post


Image: Central Okanagan Search & Rescue/AFP via Getty Images

He just wanted to be a big rock star.

Rescue teams in British Columbia responded to what they thought was a camper in distress, but the screams they heard in the mountainous forest turned out to be an outdoorsman belting out his favorite Nickelback songs.

The man had been solo camping the Boulderfields near Central Okanagan, a popular destination for bikers and rock climbers in the province, when two hikers called 911 after hearing what they described as "repeated cries."

Members of the Central Okanagan Search and Rescue crew happened to be out in the woods training nearby when the calls came in, and immediately started looking for the imperiled nature lover, deploying their drone team and enlisting two Royal Canadian Mounted Police to assist in the effort.

As the search teams neared the sound of the bleating echoing through the darkened woodlands, they heard "faint yelling... but couldn't make out what was being said," they described in a statement online.

"Was it 'help'? Or worse, Nickelback?" the snarky post read.

Turns out the camper was "singing his heart out to the trees, blissfully unaware that the acoustics of the Boulderfields had turned his tent-side concert into an accidental distress signal," the teams wrote.

"He wasn't in trouble," said COSAR Search Manager Duane Tresnich. "Unless you count his singing."

COSAR noted that its rescue services are provided free of charge, adding, "and the money you save could be spent on singing lessons."

[Uncle Sparky]

12k sounds a tad cheap, should have hired a better lawyer.

It isn't the size of your payout, it's what you do with it!