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Mark Magee photographed the fox through a window from the safety of the club
Mark Magee photographed the fox through a window from the safety of the club
The animal appeared as people were preparing to leave Alconbury Sports and Social Club, Cambridgeshire.
Panic reigned, with a woman being bitten, a man falling off his bicycle as he was chased and a pest controller being pursued back to his car.
Club chairman Bruce Staines, who was chased around the car park, said he had "never seen anything like it".
Mr Staines admitted he "tweaked his groin" trying to get away from the marauding animal and back to the safety of the club.
"None of us could get out. When we tried to use a side door, the fox heard and came haring round there."
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Alligators are found across the south-eastern United States from Virginia to Texas.
Alligators are found across the south-eastern United States from Virginia to Texas.
Orange police captain Robert Enmon said Tommie Woodward, 28, suffered severe trauma to a limb when he was attacked early on Friday morning at the private marina, which is along a bayou extending from the Sabine River near the Louisiana line.
Orange County sheriff's deputies and a Texas game warden found his body nearby about two hours later.
Police said Woodward, who lived near the marina in Orange, was swimming with a woman, but Justice of the Peace Rodney Price told KFDM-TV in Beaumont that the woman only jumped from a dock after he screamed for help. The woman was not hurt.
Price said it appeared Woodward was bitten soon after he jumped in.
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The victim was identified as Norberto Legardo, a longtime Pecos resident friends described as "very kind" and "[someone who] always did good deeds."
He was feeding his daughter's dog at her Eddy Street house, investigators said, when three pit bulls belonging to a neighbor approached them.
"I think the evidence is going to show that somehow the pit bulls got into [his daughter's] yard and started fighting with the dog [he was feeding]," said Pecos Police Chief Clay McKinney. "Mr. Legardo probably tried to break up the fight and then the pit bulls turned on him."
A witness told NewsWest 9 one of the dogs lunged at the 83-year-old's throat and all three were involved in the attack. According to McKinney, "at least two" mauled Legardo.
He added that officials are still in the early stages of the investigation and "don't have many details" about the incident.
Officers were dispatched to the scene around 9:45 a.m. and found Legardo unresponsive. He was declared dead shortly after.
Police said the Labrador he was feeding was found near the residence by Animal Control and is expected to recover from injuries sustained in the attack.
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A continuous gush of smoke and ashes from a swamp at a villag in Ukhrul.
A continuous gush of smoke and ashes from a swamp at a villag in Ukhrul.
Villagers said that smoke radius of about two feet along with ashes have been seen gushing out from the earth's surface at Shitru area, since last two weeks.Shitru is located a place border Manipur, Nagaland and Myanmar.
Villagers and onlookers feared volcanic eruption at the area in a short time.However, with majority of the villagers preoccupied with cultivation of seasonal crops, and coupled with incessant rainfall, they are yet to inform State authorities about the mysterious phenomenon till date. Yet, they are clueless and at the same time quite apprehensive in case the smokes and ashes turn out to be a prelude to a volcanic eruption.
It may be mentioned that in 2013, a mud volcano erupted at the neighbouring village of New Tusom due to the shifting of tectonic plates of India and Myanmar.
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The Fuego Volcano, seen from Alotenango municipality, Sacatepequez departament, about 65 km southwest of Guatemala City, erupts on July 1, 2015. The volcano spewed lava and columns of ash into the air and authorities have raised the alert level in the area to orange.
The Fuego Volcano, seen from Alotenango municipality, Sacatepequez departament, about 65 km southwest of Guatemala City, erupts on July 1, 2015. The volcano spewed lava and columns of ash into the air and authorities have raised the alert level in the area to orange.
The volcano, 50 kilometers (30 miles) southeast of Guatemala City, was belching "fiery clouds" over the course of the day, said David de León, a spokesman for the government's disaster response office.
The danger warning issued by the government was one step short of a declaration of emergency requiring evacuation of the communities around the volcano.
He said the mountain has been shaken by explosions that have rattled windows and rooftops and spewed columns of ash to some 5,000 meters (15,000 feet) above sea level.
Guatemala's civil aviation authority was advised to take precautionary measures.
In February, a strong eruption forced authorities to close the international airport because of the falling ash.
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Epicenter of 'earthquake' in Calhoun County's Tekonsha Township June 30, 2015
Epicenter of 'earthquake' in Calhoun County's Tekonsha Township June 30, 2015
The U.S. Geological Survey's website said people reported feeling the earthquake as far west as Holland, north to Grand Rapids, east into Lenawee County and as far south as Northern Indiana and Northwest Ohio. U.S.G.S. geophysicists seem to have differing opinions about the relationship between yesterday's quake and the May 2, 2015 4.2 magnitude earthquake that occurred in Kalamazoo County south of Galesburg. Scientists can't agree on whether or not yesterday's event was an aftershock of the previous quake nearly two months ago nor can they concur if it was on the same fault line.
Tuesday's temblor occurred at 11:42 a.m. with the epicenter at the southeast corner of Warner Lake on 12 1/2 Mile Road and 3.1 miles beneath the surface.
The strongest quake ever felt in the region was a 4.6 magnitude quake that hit the Coldwater area in 1947 and some believe is proof of a fault buried deep below southern Michigan.
Dutch Professor Emeritus of Chemical Engineering and thermodynamics, Dr. Dick Thoenes, explains a multitude of reasons that,
"My conclusion is that it is impossible that significant climate change is due solely to an increase in CO2 levels. This means that all measures to reduce CO2 emissions are pointless. This has enormous financial consequences for the world."The Dutch professor em. of Chemical Engineering at the Eindhoven University and author of many reference books on mass and energy flows in materials, exactly the areas that need the climate science, Dick Thoenes, pushes for anyone interested in clear and understandable why the postulated greenhouse effect in the real world is not seen.
Comment: About the Author:
Prof. Dr. Dick Thoenes b.1930 taught chemical engineering until 1995, the year he Emiretierung, at the Eindhoven University, Netherlands. He is the author of many books and worked as a research consultant for many companies and the Swedish and Netherlands Governments. He was chairman and is now an honorary member of the KNCV (Royal Chemical Society) and became the Foreign Member of the Royal Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA) Stockholm appointed.
He focuses on "Transport phenomena" (the first in the famous book by RB Bird, et al., 1960 formulated). This includes fluid flow, mixing, mass transfer, heat transfer, evaporation, radiation, etc. These phenomena are the basis of chemical engineering and they are also the basis for climate research. So when the second assessment report of the IPCC was published in 1995 (the year of his retirement), he studied it and thought: That can not be true! Later studies confirmed this impression.
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Steve the surfer had a close call with a shark at Lennox Head
Steve the surfer had a close call with a shark at Lennox Head
Beaches will remain closed until Saturday after the attack, which took place around 9am on Friday in Lennox Head, just 12 miles from where local surfer Mathew Lee was critically mauled on Thursday.
While there has been no official confirmation, some believe the shark to be the same which mauled Mr Lee, who was recovering from emergency surgery today in a Gold Coast hospital.
Northern NSW lifeguard coordinator Scott McCartney, who is responsible for around 279 miles (450km) of the Australian coastline stretching south from the northern NSW border, said there was a possibility the same shark was responsible for both attacks.
"But there could also be more out there," he told the Telegraph
Comment: A loud boom, followed by ground shaking are one of the hallmarks of an overhead meteor explosion.
Something wicked this way comes!