Source: Mental Floss
Welcome to The Weird Week in Review, where we bring you odd news stories from all over.
1. CALF GETS LASSOED FROM THE HOOD OF A POLICE CAR
When authorities got a call about a calf that was loose on Tennessee’s Highway 79N, David Bevill of Paris, Tennessee, volunteered to help local police capture it.
Henry County Sheriff Monte Belew drove down the highway with Bevill on the hood, ready to rope in the calf. According to a Facebook post,Belew said the calf became loose when a man was driving through town and his cattle trailer door broke. “There were actually two that got loose, but Dr. Lyons at Mineral Wells Animal Clinic and his crew were able to get the other one,” Belew said.
“So everybody is happy—we roped one calf, Dr. Lyons got the other one and the guy who was hauling them through town is happy, too,” Belew said.
It’s always handy to know a cowboy when you’ve got a job to do.
2. CAT STUCK IN SUPPORTS OF DOUBLE-DECKER HIGHWAY FOR NINE DAYS
Erin McCutcheon’s cat Juno escaped a zippered cat carrier and jumped out of a moving car on the upper deck of I-93 in Boston on Christmas Day. McCutcheon couldn’t find her cat, and so distributed posters and put out a call for help on Facebook. On Tuesday, a Local 103 crew of electricians doing maintenance work spotted Juno high above the lower deck, perched on the support girders under the upper deck. Juno had been stuck 80…
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