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Friday Catblogging: Well, British Cats, Perhaps…

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Hannah Sparks reports that Big cats prefer the warm, spicy scent of Calvin Klein’s Obsession cologne: What drives the felines wild? The intoxicating aroma of Calvin Klein’s Obsession, according to zookeepers in the UK. A recent shortage of perfumes, which help to soothe the sometimes aggressive animals, has lead the Banham Zoo in Norfolk, England,…

Health, Social Media, Weird Tales

Dangers Imagined and Real

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Taylor Lorenz writes of unjustified worries about the ‘Momo Challenge’ in Momo Is Not Trying to Kill Children (‘Like eating Tide Pods and snorting condoms, the Momo challenge is a viral hoax’).   Lorenz has made a career of observing and reporting on social media trends, and reassures that On Tuesday afternoon, a Twitter user going…

Cats, Nature, Weird Tales

Friday Catblogging: Not Humans After All

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A years-long search for a serial cat killer has found unexpected culprits. Amy Held reports London Police Outfoxed, Abandon 3-Year Search For Serial Cat Killer: It was a damp and dreary November nearly three years ago, when the London Metropolitan Police decided it was time to act. People kept calling with reports of grisly findings:…

Poll, Weird Tales

Friday Poll: What Was That?

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What Was It? In September, a live video cam of an eagle’s nest seemed to capture something else walking below on the ground. There’s now excitement that this might be a recording of a Sasquatch. (In the embedded video, the action occurs in the upper right corner of the recording, and is enhanced and placed…

Poll, Weird Tales

Friday Poll: Amtrak’s Seven-Month Response Time

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<a href=”http://polldaddy.com/poll/9517184/”>Amtrak’s Seven-Month Response Time</a> Amanda Carpenter, a sometime political operative and current CNN commentator, became stuck in an Amtrak station elevator in February, and she posted on Twitter at the time to describe her situstion. Seven months later, an Amtrak representative tweeted back to ask if she still needed help: Carpenter obviously pushed the…

Animals, Poll, Weird Tales

Friday Poll: Hidden Monkey on Plane

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Hidden Monkey on an Airplane: What to do? If a passenger sneaks a monkey on to a plane, what should authorities do? On a flight from Ohio to Nevada, a flight crew discovered that a passenger was concealing a service monkey: Frontier Airlines spokesman Richard Oliver says the incident happened Tuesday night on a flight…

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Friday Poll: Flight Attendant’s Exit Strategy

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A Houston television station reports that a United Airlines flight attendant used an evacuation slide to leave a packed airplane, despite the absence of any emergency: According to an official with United Airlines, the incident happened around noon after Flight 1246 landed in Houston after traveling from Sacramento. Julia Price deployed an evacuation slide when the aircraft…