Here is a tame diversion.
Here is a tame diversion. I really need to brush up on things for tomorrow. More details later.
In other news...
Five dead in US deer hunter fight
Five deer hunters have been shot dead and three injured in the US state of Wisconsin in a dispute over a tree stand, the local sheriff's office said. A man has been arrested over the shootings, which happened on Sunday, the second day of Wisconsin's popular nine-day annual deer-hunting season. Tree stands are aerial platforms used by hunters to get a shot at passing deer from above. Chai Vang was arrested carrying an assault rifle, local police said. Wisconsin's hardwood forests make it prime deer-hunting territory and the sport is a popular family pastime there. Nearly 640,000 deer licences were distributed for this year's hunting season, the Minneapolis and St Paul Pioneer Press in neighbouring Minnesota reported on its website. The shootings happened when a party of hunters returning to their hunting shack near the small town of Birchwood spotted a man in one of their tree stands, said Sawyer County deputy sheriff Tim Zeigle. He said it was not known who began shooting first. "Information is sketchy...Many of the people we need to talk to are in the operating room," the Pioneer Press reported him as saying. Four men, including a teenage boy and a woman were killed. All three of the injured remain in hospital. The arrested man was wearing a numbered orange licence vest - obligatory for hunters - and carrying a high powered assault rifle, the deputy sheriff said. Wisconsin is among the top US states for deer-hunting. The animals are so widespread that last year 530 were killed in the streets of Superior, a small city in north-west Wisconsin, one fifth of them in traffic accidents and the rest by licensed archers. The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources runs a scheme under which hunters can donate their dead deer to feed the state's needy.
Three Wives Attempt Suicide After Argument
All three wives of a 67-year-old Iranian man took overdoses in an unsuccessful triple suicide attempt after the youngest wife bought an expensive pair of boots, a news agency reported on Sunday. "My two other wives were very jealous after my 27-year-old wife bought a pair of boots for $450," the husband was quoted as saying by the ISNA student news agency. "After they had an argument about the price, they all attempted suicide together," he added. All three women, now in stable condition in the hospital, have separate apartments and cars. Men in Iran, where Islamic law has been in force since 1979, can marry up to four wives, although polygamy is fairly rare.
Elephant Cleared After Crushing Zoo Keeper
An elephant that stamped on his keeper at a Chinese zoo in the mating season and crushed him to death has been declared innocent because of mitigating circumstances, Xinhua news agency said on Sunday. Hu Tianmin was cleaning the elephant house at the zoo in Kunming, capital of Yunnan province, in August when the five-ton, 20-year-old male Asian elephant named "Zhongbo" lifted him up, threw him to the ground and stamped on him. "The production safety administration in Kunming confirmed that the victim was responsible for his own tragedy because he had entered the elephant pen all alone and without adopting any protective measures, in violation of zoo rules," Xinhua said. Zoo officials said it was the mating season and the elephant was possibly suffering from sunstroke at the time, which made it irritable and prone to attack. The general manager of the zoo and at least four officials in charge of security were penalized by the production safety administration, Xinhua said without giving details. "Visitors and zookeepers have been advised not to get too close to the animals in future," it said.
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