How -Dog gets head stuck in wall

LOS ANGELES - California animal rescue officers were called in after an eight-month old German Shepherd dog mysteriously got his head stuck in a wall this week.

Stricken pooch Rebel was found whimpering with his head sticking out one side of the 18-inch thick wall in Desert Hot Springs, east of Los Angeles, while his body remained firmly on the other. "My initial reaction was, 'Wow, how’d he get in there?'" said Riverside County Animal Services Sergeant James Huffman. "And why is there a hole that big in the wall?" "It was a very odd situation .. It was uncertain if he was chasing another animal, or just curious," he added. After checking that Rebel could breathe comfortably, Huffman and fellow officer Hector Palafox took up position on either side of the block wall. "One officer worked the dog’s head from one side of the wall, while the other officer worked the dog’s body on the other side," said a statement by the Department of Animal Services in Riverside County. Palafox "pushed the dog’s ears back to ensure the dog would not suffer during the rescue attempt," it added, saying that it took 30 minutes and some "minor nudging" to free the trapped canine.

Wow-Snowstorm causes family to take $900 cab

A New York family's dream vacation to Disney World ended on a sour note, after a 13-hour, $900 cab ride home.Snowstorms in New York forced the family to rebook their flights from Florida to Buffalo, but after learning buses were not in service to take them home, the family took a taxi."We arrived at Delta around 12:30 but they told us they cancelled all the flights and the next available flight for us would be on Wednesday," Emilian Emeagwali told ABC News. "So I decided to book a flight with JetBlue to take us to Buffalo, and from there we took a cab."Taxi driver Eddy Emran said he would get them home if "they were willing to pay," the New York Times reported.

From Buffalo, the cab driver travelled 13 hours to bring Emaegwali and her five children back to Elmont, N.Y.

The cab fare would normally be $1,100 from Buffalo to New York, but the driver offered a reduced price.

Santa arrested in pub for 'possessing drugs'

The amateur Father Christmas had been called in by the owner of the Rockingham Arms for its annual Christmas gathering after its normal Santa was double booked

However, after shedding his disguise and returning to the bar, police officers and sniffer dogs arrived as part of a week of action on alcohol, arresting him on suspicion of being inebriated and having drugs, the Evening Telegraph reported.Jimmy Brown, landlord of the pub on

Studfall Avenue

in the town, told the newspaper pubgoers were unwilling to let the police arrest the festive figure.

'Unfortunately, Santa got a bit mouthy when the police came in. There were a couple of hundred people in the bar and they were all shouting "don't take our Santa!"' he said.

 

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