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08 ❘ kaleidoscope CONTACT US AT: 8351-9441, [email protected] Monday July 16, 2018 A ZOO in New Orleans, the U.S., remained closed Satur- day after a jaguar escaped its habitat and killed six other animals. Audubon Zoo said the 3- year-old male jaguar, named Valero, was spotted outside his enclosure by a zoo employee at around 7 a.m. Valero attacked four alpacas, one emu and a fox. The animals died. Kyle Burks, vice president and managing director for the zoo, said at a news conference that Valero was sedated by a team of veterinarians and the animal was returned and secured in his area. No humans were injured, although the circumstances of the escape sparked a wor- risome thought at what might have been: The “jaguar jungle” is also home to a children’s play area. In a news conference Satur- day, zoo officials insisted the facility was safe for the general public, even though they would not say how the predator man- aged to escape and either kill or injure every alpaca on zoo property. The zoo was closed Saturday but said it was scheduled to reopen yesterday. “We care for these animals every day,” Burks said. “We closed the zoo today to help our team mourn.” No explanation has been given for the jaguar’s escape, but the zoo said an “after-action review” was taking place, as well as an investigation into how the jaguar escaped. “We take this situation very seriously and we’re working to investigate everything that happened so we can prevent anything like this from hap- pening again,” Burks said. But the incident was certain to raise questions about the dangers of caging apex, or top, predators that have evolved to hunt and kill, and will quickly pounce on prey animals – or humans – if safeguards break down. In the spring of 2017, a Brit- ish zookeeper was mauled after being trapped in the Hamerton Park Zoo’s tiger enclosure with at least one of the big cats. Horrified witnesses said they could see zookeepers sprinting to the edge of the tiger enclo- sure, throwing pieces of meat as an unsuccessful distraction. In 2016, zookeeper Stacey Konwiser, 38, was killed while preparing the “night house” at the Palm Beach Zoo. The house is where the animals were cleaned and fed. (SD-Agencies) TWO police officers in Georgia, the U.S., have been placed on leave after video showed them using a coin-toss app before determining whether to arrest a woman caught speeding in April, and the police chief said he is “appalled” by the move. “Why am I being arrested?” Sarah Webb is heard saying to Officer Courtney Brown in the bodycam footage, which first reported the story. Webb, who said Friday she was speeding because she was late for her job at a hair salon, was arrested on charges of speeding, reckless driving and driving too fast for conditions, according to police records. Earlier last week, a prosecu- tor dismissed the charges, the station reported. In the video posted by WXIA, Brown and another officer, Kristee Wilson, are heard dis- cussing what they should do with Webb, and Brown says that she doesn’t have speed detection equipment and Wilson says she doesn’t have any tickets. The offi- cers used the terms “A” for arrest for heads, and “R” for release for tails, according to the station. The video audio appears to show Wilson say “This is tails right?” Brown says, “Yeah. So release?” and then Wilson says “23,” the police code for arrest, WXIA reported. “These are people who are sup- posed to protect us, and instead are treating our freedom and our lives like games,” Webb, 24, told NBC News on Friday. “It’s dis- gusting. It’s scary to think police officers do stuff like this.” Roswell Police Chief Rusty Grant said both officers have been placed on administrative leave and an internal investiga- tion has been launched. “I couldn’t believe what I was seeing, to be honest,” Grant told NBC News of the video. “It was appalling.” “This isn’t a police procedure, to bring a coin flip — whether it’s an app or an actual coin toss — that’s not part of that decision making to decide to take some- one’s freedom,” Grant said. Webb said she didn’t know the officers used the coin-toss app before arresting her until she was contacted by WXIA three weeks before her court date. In a police arrest report, Brown wrote that she was on patrol April 7 when a vehicle sped past her, and she estimated in the report that the car was traveling around 85 mph (136 kmph) in a 45 mph zone before it was pulled over. (SD-Agencies) A CAVE complex in Thailand where 12 schoolboys and their soccer coach were trapped for more than two weeks before they were safely brought out will be turned into a museum to showcase the rescue, the head of the operation said Friday. “This area will become a living museum, to show how the operation unfolded,” the head of rescue mission, Narongsak Osottanakorn, told a news conference. “An interactive database will be set up,” he said. “It will become another major attrac- tion for Thailand.” Thai officials say the fate of the boys and the multinational rescue have put the cave firmly on the map and plans are in place to develop it into a tour- ist destination. But Prime Min- ister Prayuth Chan-ocha said precautions would have to be implemented both inside and outside the cave to safeguard tourists. A guide book describes the relatively unexplored Tham Luang cave as having an “impressive entrance cham- ber” leading to a marked path and then a series of chambers and boulders. Vil- lagers say it is known to be prone to flooding and many have urged authorities to post clearer warnings. Chongklai Worapongsathorn, deputy director-general of the Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conserva- tion, said the cave would be closed from Thursday. He said plans were in place to “revive” an adjacent national park where hundreds of rescue workers and military personnel set up camp during the search and rescue. (SD-Agencies) THE Indian man with the lon- gest fingernails ever recorded has finally chopped them off – after 66 years – and now they will be displayed in a museum. Shridhar Chillal’s fingernails were nearly the same length as a bus when he finally got them trimmed after more than six decades of cultivating his huge talons. The 82-year-old from Pune, India, had been growing his lengthy nails since he was 16 years old and holds the Guinness World Record for the longest fin- gernails on one hand. Chillal was first inspired to grow out the nails on his left hand in 1952 after a teacher beat him for accidentally breaking one of his very long nails. From that day on, he vowed never to cut his own talons. But he finally caved during a “nail clipping ceremony” in New York last week and the yellowing cuttings will now be displayed in a museum. The ceremony took place at Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Museum in Times Square, where Chillal’s severed claws can be viewed by the public. When last measured, Chillal’s nails had a combined length of 8.65 meters – nearly as long as a London bus. His longest nail was on his thumb at 1.98 meters, Guinness World Records says. In 2014 Guinness World Records crowned Chillal the person with the longest finger- nails ever on a single hand. Chillal has said that his nails were so fragile that he had to be very careful not to break them while sleeping. He told Guinness World Records: ‘I can’t move much, so every half an hour or so I wake up and move my hand to the other side of the bed.” Due to years of growing his nails and their weight, his left hand was permanently handi- capped, leaving Chillal unable to open his hand from a closed position or flex his fingers. Despite opposition from his parents, he said he would be able to work with his other hand, eventually becoming a photogra- pher with a customized handle to accommodate his nails when using the camera. Although Chillal suffered years of knock backs from women and their families because of his “dirty” nails, he did get married at the age 29 to his brother’s sister-in-law. But Chillal was also in pain and constantly left with a “burning sensation” from the drooping brown nails which dragged on the floor when he walked. “It was a very difficult decision for me to cut my nails, but when I realized after cutting them they’d be at Ripley’s Believe it or Not, and the museum is going to maintain them … then I felt like I was making the right decision, and that’s when I decided to cut my nails.” (SD-Agencies) Bodypainting festival A model performs during the World Bodypainting Festival 2018 in Klagenfurt, Austria, on Friday. More than 300 artist teams from up to 50 countries descended on the southern city of Klagenfurt to create and show off the results to visitors and judges as part of a competition that culminated Saturday. EPA via Xinhua Indian cuts 66-year-old fi ngernails Jaguar escapes from habitat, kills 6 animals US officers use coin-toss to decide arrest Thai cave to be converted into museum Valero the jaguar. Shridhar Chillal holds his fingernails. 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Monday July 16, 2018
A ZOO in New Orleans, the U.S., remained closed Satur-day after a jaguar escaped its habitat and killed six other animals.
Audubon Zoo said the 3-year-old male jaguar, named Valero, was spotted outside his enclosure by a zoo employee at around 7 a.m.
Valero attacked four alpacas, one emu and a fox. The animals died.
Kyle Burks, vice president and managing director for the zoo, said at a news conference that Valero was sedated by a team of veterinarians and the animal was returned and secured in his area.
No humans were injured, although the circumstances of the escape sparked a wor-risome thought at what might have been: The “jaguar jungle” is also home to a children’s play area.
In a news conference Satur-day, zoo offi cials insisted the facility was safe for the general public, even though they would not say how the predator man-aged to escape and either kill or injure every alpaca on zoo property.
The zoo was closed Saturday but said it was scheduled to reopen yesterday.
“We care for these animals every day,” Burks said. “We closed the zoo today to help our team mourn.”
No explanation has been given for the jaguar’s escape, but the zoo said an “after-action review” was taking place, as well as an investigation into how the jaguar escaped.
“We take this situation very seriously and we’re working to investigate everything that happened so we can prevent anything like this from hap-pening again,” Burks said.
But the incident was certain to raise questions about the dangers of caging apex, or top, predators that have evolved to hunt and kill, and will quickly pounce on prey animals – or humans – if safeguards break down.
In the spring of 2017, a Brit-ish zookeeper was mauled after being trapped in the Hamerton Park Zoo’s tiger enclosure with at least one of the big cats.
Horrifi ed witnesses said they could see zookeepers sprinting to the edge of the tiger enclo-sure, throwing pieces of meat as an unsuccessful distraction.
In 2016, zookeeper Stacey Konwiser, 38, was killed while preparing the “night house” at the Palm Beach Zoo. The house is where the animals were cleaned and fed. (SD-Agencies)
TWO police offi cers in Georgia, the U.S., have been placed on leave after video showed them using a coin-toss app before determining whether to arrest a woman caught speeding in April, and the police chief said he is “appalled” by the move.
“Why am I being arrested?” Sarah Webb is heard saying to Offi cer Courtney Brown in the bodycam footage, which fi rst reported the story.
Webb, who said Friday she was speeding because she was late for her job at a hair salon, was arrested on charges of speeding, reckless driving and driving too fast for conditions, according to police records.
Earlier last week, a prosecu-tor dismissed the charges, the station reported.
In the video posted by WXIA, Brown and another offi cer,
Kristee Wilson, are heard dis-cussing what they should do with Webb, and Brown says that she doesn’t have speed detection equipment and Wilson says she doesn’t have any tickets. The offi -cers used the terms “A” for arrest for heads, and “R” for release for tails, according to the station.
The video audio appears to show Wilson say “This is tails right?” Brown says, “Yeah. So release?” and then Wilson says “23,” the police code for arrest, WXIA reported.
“These are people who are sup-posed to protect us, and instead are treating our freedom and our lives like games,” Webb, 24, told NBC News on Friday. “It’s dis-gusting. It’s scary to think police offi cers do stuff like this.”
Roswell Police Chief Rusty Grant said both offi cers have been placed on administrative
leave and an internal investiga-tion has been launched.
“I couldn’t believe what I was seeing, to be honest,” Grant told NBC News of the video. “It was appalling.”
“This isn’t a police procedure, to bring a coin fl ip — whether it’s an app or an actual coin toss — that’s not part of that decision making to decide to take some-one’s freedom,” Grant said.
Webb said she didn’t know the offi cers used the coin-toss app before arresting her until she was contacted by WXIA three weeks before her court date. In a police arrest report, Brown wrote that she was on patrol April 7 when a vehicle sped past her, and she estimated in the report that the car was traveling around 85 mph (136 kmph) in a 45 mph zone before it was pulled over.
(SD-Agencies)
A CAVE complex in Thailand where 12 schoolboys and their soccer coach were trapped for more than two weeks before they were safely brought out will be turned into a museum to showcase the rescue, the head of the operation said Friday.
“This area will become a living museum, to show how the operation unfolded,” the head of rescue mission, Narongsak Osottanakorn, told a news conference.
“An interactive database will be set up,” he said. “It will become another major attrac-tion for Thailand.”
Thai offi cials say the fate of the boys and the multinational rescue have put the cave fi rmly on the map and plans are in place to develop it into a tour-ist destination. But Prime Min-ister Prayuth Chan-ocha said precautions would have to be implemented both inside and outside the cave to safeguard tourists.
A guide book describes the relatively unexplored Tham Luang cave as having an “impressive entrance cham-ber” leading to a marked path and then a series of chambers and boulders. Vil-lagers say it is known to be prone to flooding and many have urged authorities to post clearer warnings.
Chongklai Worapongsathorn, deputy director-general of the Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conserva-tion, said the cave would be closed from Thursday. He said plans were in place to “revive” an adjacent national park where hundreds of rescue workers and military personnel set up camp during the search and rescue.
(SD-Agencies)
THE Indian man with the lon-gest fi ngernails ever recorded has fi nally chopped them off – after 66 years – and now they will be displayed in a museum.
Shridhar Chillal’s fi ngernails were nearly the same length as a bus when he fi nally got them trimmed after more than six decades of cultivating his huge talons.
The 82-year-old from Pune, India, had been growing his lengthy nails since he was 16 years old and holds the Guinness World Record for the longest fi n-gernails on one hand.
Chillal was fi rst inspired to grow out the nails on his left hand in 1952 after a teacher beat him for accidentally breaking one of his very long nails. From that day on, he vowed never to cut his own talons.
But he fi nally caved during a “nail clipping ceremony” in New York last week and the yellowing
cuttings will now be displayed in a museum.
The ceremony took place at Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Museum in Times Square, where Chillal’s severed claws can be viewed by the public.
When last measured, Chillal’s nails had a combined length of 8.65 meters – nearly as long as a London bus.
His longest nail was on his thumb at 1.98 meters, Guinness World Records says.
In 2014 Guinness World Records crowned Chillal the person with the longest fi nger-nails ever on a single hand.
Chillal has said that his nails were so fragile that he had to be very careful not to break them while sleeping.
He told Guinness World Records: ‘I can’t move much, so every half an hour or so I wake up and move my hand to the other side of the bed.”
Due to years of growing his nails and their weight, his left hand was permanently handi-capped, leaving Chillal unable to open his hand from a closed position or fl ex his fi ngers.
Despite opposition from his parents, he said he would be able to work with his other hand, eventually becoming a photogra-pher with a customized handle to accommodate his nails when using the camera.
Although Chillal suffered years of knock backs from women and their families because of his “dirty” nails, he did get married at the age 29 to his brother’s sister-in-law.
But Chillal was also in pain and constantly left with a “burning sensation” from the drooping brown nails which dragged on the fl oor when he walked.
“It was a very diffi cult decision for me to cut my nails, but when I realized after cutting them
they’d be at Ripley’s Believe it or Not, and the museum is going to maintain them … then I felt like I was making the right decision, and that’s when I decided to cut my nails.”
(SD-Agencies)
Bodypainting festivalA model performs during the World Bodypainting Festival 2018 in Klagenfurt, Austria, on Friday. More than 300 artist teams from up to 50 countries descended on the southern city of Klagenfurt to create and show off the results to visitors and judges as part of a competition that culminated Saturday. EPA via Xinhua
Indian cuts 66-year-old fi ngernails Jaguar escapes from habitat, kills 6 animals
US offi cers use coin-toss to decide arrest
Thai cave to be converted into museum
Valero the jaguar.
Shridhar Chillal holds his fi ngernails.SD-Agencies
