A small group of British conservationists are installing mesh- covered ladders in roadside drains to save trapped amphibians from certain death.

Being attacked by a jealous spouse or love rival is a terrible thing but just imagine being beaten up by your girlfriend’s demonic toy doll.
That’s exactly what happened to one unlucky Peruvian man. At least according to the pour soul’s girlfriend.
reports that the woman, identified only by her first name Berliz, claims that her doll flew into a terrible rage at the sight of her boyfriend and beat him black and blue.
So traumatic was the beating he received at the hands of the twisted toy, Berliz’s lover has since left his lady love, unable or unwilling to compete with an inanimate psychopath.
Apparently, the doll named Desiy, even slashed Berliz’s face. Perhaps its intention was to mark the woman from Callao in Peru as its own. Or it might have been a warning for her to stay away from any future romantic relationships.

A Florida man was arrested on Tuesday, November 6, after visiting the St. Augustine Alligator Farm Zoological Park after hours the previous night. He caused thousands of dollars in damages and was attacked by a crocodile.
The St. Augustine Police Department explained on that they received a call from a resident on Holly Lane around 6:50 a.m. on Tuesday about a suspicious male, wearing only boxers, crawling on their lawn. The responding officers noticed that the man, who was identified as Brandon Keith Hatfield, was bloody and had injuries on his foot, so they took him to Flagler Hospital for treatment.
As the officials were en route to the medical facility, the police department received a call from the Alligator Farm. Staff members had found a single Crocs shoe and various pieces of clothing in one of the crocodile exhibits, and several other exhibits and statues around the park had around $5,000 worth of damages.

Lyn Dwyer, of Broomhill, Northumberland, may have gotten a little more than she bargained for in her latest bit of butter. Pulling back the plastic cover after having removed the lid on a small tub of Anchor brand butter, the 61-year-old mother of two was shocked to find a phallic shape revealed to her in her dairy, as the details.
“I was just making some toast and you have to peel back a cover once you open the lid… I immediately saw it and thought, ‘Really?’ It looked to me like a very clear depiction of a willy… It makes a change from seeing Jesus on toast,” Dwyer recounted.

It seems that being a good boy goes a long way, and will get you off the hook even when you accidentally get into trouble.
This was recently the case for Charlie, a 120-pound Rottweiler-mix that ended up inadvertently injuring his owner — and quite severely, at that — during a hunting trip in the New Mexico desert.
Charlie is one of the three dogs with whom 74-year-old Tex Harold Gilligan shares his life. The man lives in Doña Ana County, and last week drove his canine companions into the desert west of Las Cruces to hunt for jackrabbits.
While the trip started innocently enough, Gilligan ended up getting gunned down in a bizarre accident that boggles the mind and defies imagination. The man wound up at an El Paso hospital after his dog shot him with the very same shotgun that was meant for the jackrabbits.

The dead mouse in the Chinese wine sure looks nasty, and the maggots in the cheese tend to put people off. But nothing is more horrible to an unaccustomed palate than the Icelandic fermented shark. It's the worst. Or so says the expert.

Everyone says that there is someone in the world for someone else, but there are always those couples which make people be more judgmental than they should be. A woman named Amethyst Realm is in one of those relationships that some people may simply find too hard to believe. She actually claims to have had sex with at least 20 different ghosts and has now become engaged to a spirit.
Back in December, the reported that 30-year-old Amethyst Realm, who is from England, said that she had cheated on her then-fiance with numerous ghosts. She said they moved into a haunted home back in 2005 and that was when it all started.
“It started as an energy, then became physical. There was pressure on my thighs and breath on my neck. I just always felt safe. I had sex with the ghost. You can feel it. It’s difficult to explain.”

India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi helped a diamond merchant hand over hundreds of cars as gifts to his employees on Thursday.

Two male penguins entrusted with the care of a fostered egg have welcomed a tiny sub-Antarctic Gentoo chick into the world, Sydney's Sea Life Aquarium said on Friday.

Oops!
That’s what happened when military Humvee, weighing probably three tons, fell from the sky Wednesday afternoon after it was accidentally dropped from a C-17 Globemaster into a wooded area of a neighborhood in Cameron, North Carolina, reported.
Marvin Krause, a Joint Base Charleston spokesman, told the television station that the incident happened about 1 p.m. when Globemaster III, which is assigned to the 437th Airlift Wing, inadvertently dropped the vehicle outside of it test drop zone.
“The C-17 took off from Pope Army Airfield, Fort Bragg, North Carolina, on a routine air drop test training mission and inadvertently dropped a U.S. Army Humvee vehicle prematurely over Cameron, North Carolina, approximately five miles from the Fort Bragg drop zone,” Krause said, per WCSC-TV.

A Michigan man serving life in prison for murdering his wife agreed to show authorities where he buried her body in exchange for an Xbox for his housing unit. According to , the 29-year-old inmate took authorities to a forest in Kalamazoo County where he buried the body of Venus Stewart, his estranged wife. In exchange, Doug Stewart will get access to some prison programs and an Xbox gaming console.
Stewart was convicted in 2011 of killing his wife, but her remains were never located. On Monday, Stewart guided detectives to a site where he had left two tree stumps as grave markers over his wife’s body.
“I knew I couldn’t forget where she was,” he told local station .

Dharampal Singh was attacked on Thursday by a group of vicious monkeys that armed themselves with bricks and stoned him to death. reports that the 72-year-old gentleman was collecting dry wood for havan when the monkeys took to the trees and rained bricks down on him.
Singh was attacked by the aggressive simians in the Tikri village of Baghpat in Uttar Pradesh, and he sustained injuries on his head and chest. The elderly gentleman was taken to the hospital for treatment but later died there.
The monkeys involved in the attack obtained the bricks they used to kill Singh from a derelict structure.
The monkeys are considered a nuisance, and they make living hell, say the local populace. In Delhi alone, their populations have soared to approximately 30,000 unruly inhabitants, reports .
The derelict monkeys break into cars, steal food and sometimes terrorize and kill people when they are in groups–or alone in the case of single monkeys attacking children.

A bizarre creature that scientists nicknamed “headless chicken monster” was seen swimming in the Southern Ocean off East Antarctica for the very first time. The creature was filmed using a camera technology developed by scientists in Australia, per the .
The creature is an unusual species of sea cucumber which is scientifically known as Enypniastes eximia. The creature has previously only been filmed in the Gulf of Mexico at a depth of 2,500m, the report said.
According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), as opposed to their name, sea cucumbers are animals and not vegetables. They can only survive in salt water and are echinoderms – a phylum of marine animals that also includes starfish and urchins. However, they do not have hard spines but have soft, leathery skins.
The data obtained from the underwater cameras will be fed back to the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR), which is an international body responsible for managing the Southern Ocean.

From about 6 pm to 7:20 pm on Tuesday, Eastern Standard Time, YouTube was down…and it made everybody freak out. YouTube’s CEO, Susan Wojcicki, apologized for the outage. But she didn’t explain it, according to .
“Never seen YouTube down for 30+ minutes like this before,” said Marques Brownlee, a well-known YouTuber.
According to Twitter feedback, the outage was global, according to .

imagine if this was just a social experiment, and the workers of youtube were laughing at our reactions right now. this would be me @ them
— 777 (@jimukana)

Me right now cause Youtube is down and I don’t know what else to do with my life
— Arielle (@ariellegodinn)
As you know by now, YouTube is back up and social media is back to normal and all is right with the world. The outage was unusually long, and it was never explained.

A few lucky turkeys got a special spa treatment at a swank Washington, D.C., hotel this week head of the annual White House Rose Garden pardoning next month, according to magazine.
The Willard Intercontinental Hotel offered the spa treatment for the presidential turkeys for the 11th straight year, with the hotel staff referring to their feathered guests as VITs, or Very Important Turkeys.
“It’s a fantastic tradition, it’s very exciting, we love it,” Janet Scanlon, the Willard Intercontinental marketing director, told the magazine. “They’ll probably get some feather fluffing – like a haircut. Maybe a massage. They will be able to order room service and our chef is planning to cook up some special dishes for them as well.”