The loss of service was due to rodent damage to some underground cabling,” it said. “On Monday morning our engineers were on site as soon as possible and worked at the highest priority to repair the damage, with service restored early evening on Monday…. “Further damage was incurred on Tuesday afternoon and our engineers returned…
Animals
Animals, Government Spending, Police
Update 4: On Edgerton, Wisconsin’s Former Police Dog
by JOHN ADAMS •
There was a follow-up story in the Janesville Gazette about Edgerton’s former police dog, an animal that bit two people (one a police officer from another department, the other an office worker) before it was finally sent away. The cost of settling injuries to the police officer (apparently the lesser of the two injuries) was…
Animals
Friday Poll and Comment Forum: Dolphins in Captivity?
by JOHN ADAMS •
There’s a story in Wired about whether dolphins should be kept in captivity. In the confines of an aquarium tank, two dolphins crashed into each other, and one was killed: The dolphin, a 4-year-old named Nea, died on the afternoon of Sept. 5 at the [Chicago] Brookfield Zoo. According to a zoo press release, trainers…
Animals
Baby Hippo Ballet
by JOHN ADAMS •
Animals, Weird Tales
Now Montello Children Get in on America’s Latest Craze
by JOHN ADAMS •
Of course they do – they’ve seen the future, and that future is in Mysterious Creatures. Last week, a Juneau County man claimed he found a hairless, mysterious looking creature along side a highway just outside Elroy. A debate ensued — was it just a sick animal, the legendary goat-sucking Chupacabra, or something else? Whatever…