Robert Biggs, 69 of Paradise, Calif., had a pretty wild encounter when he went out for a hike on Monday. Hiking near Whiskey Flats, Biggs stopped to watch a mother bear and her cub by a stream, but was jumped from behind by another animal when he turned to leave.

The California man wasn't attacked by a bear, but a mountain lion. Biggs said that the mountain lion jumped on his back, forcing him to fall to his knees. "He grabbed me from behind and knocked me to the ground," Biggs told the Huffington Post. "I was on my knees. I had my rock pick out because I was on a steep incline, and I smashed the cat in the head with it. He screamed , but didn't let go."

Fortunately for Biggs, the mother bear was only 40 feet away to help him. "That's when a blur on my left side grabbed the lion by its throat," said Biggs of the mother bear. "I heard tremendous screeching, some growling noises."

The somewhat disheartening verdict on the rock 'n' roll generation was made as a wheelchair company lost a battle to name one of its electric models the Beatle.

The European Court of Justice ordered You-Q, a Dutch company, to stop using the name to promote its mobility aid after a legal challenge by Apple Corps, The Beatles' company.

You-Q had attempted to trademark the word "Beatle" for the device but judges ruled there was a risk of confusion with the Fab Four.

They said the company was likely to benefit unfairly from association with the band.

The judges accepted that there was a distinct contrast between the "freedom and youth" represented by The Beatles' music and the reduced mobility of You-Q's customers. However, they said many baby boomers might now be in the market for a wheelchair and might therefore be susceptible to such advertising.

Cleveland, Ohio - Flash mobs have been blamed as a factor in looting during urban riots. But now a group of online activists is harnessing social media like Twitter and Facebook to get consumers to spend at locally owned stores in cities around the world in so-called Cash Mobs.

At the first International Cash Mob day on Saturday, wallet- toting activists gathered in as many as 200 mobs in the United States and Europe, with the aim of spending at least $20 a piece in locally owned businesses, according to the concept's founder, Cleveland lawyer Andrew Samtoy.

"It's my baby but I'm not a helicopter parent," Samtoy told a crowd of more than 100 people gathered Saturday at Nature's Bin, a grocery store that specializes in local and organic food, in Lakewood, an inner ring suburb of Cleveland.

The 32-year-old dreamed up the Cash Mob idea last year after spending time in Britain during summer riots that unleashed looting in cities including London, Manchester and Birmingham. His first Cash Mob, in Cleveland last November, brought around 40 shoppers packing in to the Visible Voice book shop, on a welcome spree in which each of them spent on average $40 within an hour-and-a-half. "We are kind of slow in November so I wasn't going to turn it down," said the independent book store's owner, Dave Ferrante, who estimated he made about eight times his normal take on that day.

"We have a very limited marketing budget and it brought in people who wouldn't have been here. It sounds corny but we really build a base one customer at a time," he added.

After the original Cash Mob in Cleveland, Samtoy's Facebook friends in other cities picked up on the idea and organized their own gatherings.

Samtoy can rattle off a list of friends from Los Angeles to Boston, from church camp to law school, who were the 'early adapters' of the Cash Mob phenomenon.

Brighton, Tenn.- How do you get rid of 25,000 bees that have decided to hang out on your car?

One Tennessee man had to find out the hard way.

Perhaps the bees thought the Hill family drove a pretty sweet ride because a very large colony decided to make their car its home.

"Bees naturally prefer a hollow tree or something like that, but for some reason they got it in their head that the engine in this vehicle was a tree," said bee keeper Bill Hughes.

Tommy Hill was heading out for breakfast when he found thousands of honey bees nesting on his car.

He didn't want to kill them so he tried something else.

"I drove down Highway 51 about 60 miles an hour and I didn't lose a one," he said. "They all stayed in there."

Brian attempts to purchase a pack of Marlhaven Lights.

(United Kingdom) Seb Baker, 29, weighs 15 stone but was attacked by the common red fox as he walked home from the supermarket.

The civil servant has revealed the wily fox, which had been sitting on a kerb at the side of the road, followed him into an alleyway.

There, he told the Sun newspaper, the aggressive animal leapt at him, circling him like prey and trying to snatch his shopping bag.

Despite making attempts to escape, the fox persisted and carried out a sustained attack on the food he had just bought from Tesco.

Eventually, Mr Baker claims, he resorted to offering the animal his loaf of garlic bread and the fox scampered off.

Mr Baker, from Orpington, Kent, told the Sun: "I had expected it to run away. I thought a fox would be scared of a 15-stone man.

In the aftermath of his most recent demeaning and misogynistic tirade against women, this time aimed at Georgetown University Law student Sandra Fluke, Rush Limbaugh has been hemorraghing advertisers.

Last night, yet another sponsor pulled his support: Satan.

A breaking news release from Andy Borowitz, via the Borowitz Report, states that "Embattled radio host Rush Limbaugh suffered another major desertion today as he lost the support of one of his longtime sponsors, Satan.

"The usually reclusive Prince of Darkness announced his decision at a hastily called press conference in Columbus, Ohio, his unofficial headquarters on Earth."

Join moral crusaders and inquisitors supreme Alain Vivien and Georges Fenech as they set off on another thrill-seeking anti-cult adventure!

Andrew Schiff was sitting in a traffic jam in California this month after giving a speech at an investment conference about gold. He turned off the satellite radio, got out of the car and screamed a profanity.

"I'm not Zen at all, and when I'm freaking out about the situation, where I'm stuck like a rat in a trap on a highway with no way to get out, it's very hard," Schiff, director of marketing for broker-dealer Euro Pacific Capital Inc., said in an interview.

Schiff, 46, is facing another kind of jam this year: Paid a lower bonus, he said the $350,000 he earns, enough to put him in the country's top 1 percent by income, doesn't cover his family's private-school tuition, a Kent, Connecticut, summer rental and the upgrade they would like from their 1,200-square- foot Brooklyn duplex.

"I feel stuck," Schiff said. "The New York that I wanted to have is still just beyond my reach."

Two otter cubs have been rescued after wandering into a post office and nearby restaurant.

Male cub Roy, who is 12 weeks old, was found hiding underneath the counter of a post office in the village of Caol, Fort William, on February 16.

A few days later, 10-week-old female Linnhe wandered into the nearby seafood restaurant Crannog on February 20.

The pair are not thought to be siblings but are likely to have come from the same area of water and have been named after a nearby loch and river.

They are now being cared for by the Scottish SPCA at the charity's Wildlife Rescue Centre in Fife.

Centre manager Colin Seddon said: "It's highly unusual for one otter to walk into a public place, let alone two.