Stories not quite ready for the Update
Aug. 22, 2007
What scarecrow? Bartlett has its scare-gators
City puts the fright in geese with visions of alligators and coyotes
Bartlett has new tools for bird abatement: coyotes on sticks and alligator heads.
Not real coyotes or alligators, mind you, but fake ones that look mean enough to scare flocks of wildfowl from parks and ponds.
Now dirty chopsticks picked up in China scare
BEIJING (Reuters) - A Beijing factory recycled used chopsticks and sold up to 100,000 pairs a day without any form of disinfection, a newspaper said on Wednesday, the latest is a string of food and product safety scares.
Norway's Moose Population in Trouble for Belching
The poor old Scandinavian moose is now being blamed for climate change, with researchers in Norway claiming that a grown moose can produce 2,100 kilos of methane a year -- equivalent to the CO2 output resulting from a 13,000 kilometer car journey.