These ten 2023 headlines had us asking, “Did I read that right?”
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A wild turkey in Coon Rapids is frightening its neighbors.
A neighbor and a bird are fighting at a Coon Rapids mobile home park. They claim that a lone turkey showed up in their park around Thanksgiving of 2021 and hasn’t gone since. As the months pass, the bird has reportedly become more hostile.
“This turkey has literally taken over our life,” said Rachael Gross, a resident of Coon Rapids.
Rachael Gross claims that because of a wild turkey that lives next door and seems to like her land, she is constantly afraid to go outside.
At MSP Airport, thousands of syringes with “vaginal tightening gel” were found.
A sizable consignment of uncontrolled injectable chemicals was intercepted by customs officials at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport last week.
A cargo from Hong Kong was destined for a Woodbury residence and included “2,536 pre-filled syringes of vaginal tightening gel,” according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
Days later, a cougar seen in Lowry Hills was struck and killed on a Golden Valley highway.
A juvenile male cougar who had traveled hundreds of miles was struck and killed in the west metro, according to Minnesota conservation officials.
The event happened a few days after a cougar was seen prowling around Minneapolis’s Lowry Hill neighborhood. On Tuesday, the city announced that it has been sighted once more close to Kenwood Park. They think it was moving along well-traveled paths close to Lake of the Isles.
A Wisconsin woman’s gun goes off due to an MRI machine, striking her in the buttocks.
A Wisconsin hospital experienced an event when a woman was shot in the buttocks after bringing a gun into a room that had an MRI machine, according to a recently submitted report from the Food and Drug Administration.
The 57-year-old lady entered the room with the hidden pistol, according to the FDA. The gun fired one bullet, striking her right buttock, after being drawn to the MRI’s magnet.
At MSP Airport, there is still a mound of snow in July.
For those who are experienced with Minnesota winters, this may come as no great surprise, but at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, the snow cover lasted far into the middle of July.
The mountain of snow that accumulated throughout the winter was still there in July, according to the airport’s Twitter feed. To refresh your memory, that occurred near the end of the planet’s warmest week ever.
A “worm warning” is issued by NWS Twin Cities.
The prediction is slimy, wiggly, and crawly.
In May of this year, the National Weather Service Twin Cities humorously issued a “worm warning” for regions south of Interstate 94. Residents “can expect to see, smell, and step on many worms this morning,” according to the NWS. Proceed cautiously.”
A driver for Amazon smacks a man in the face after he reports a lost shipment.
According to St. Paul Police, a 51-year-old man who was delivering products for Amazon and a 26-year-old guy got into a fight after the latter complained about a missing delivery.
The victim was allegedly struck in the face by the delivery driver, who then tried to flee in his car. To stop the driver from driving away, the victim leaped onto the car’s hood. The sufferer was driven along on the hood by the delivery driver till he lost consciousness a short while later.
After preening peacock was squeezed by Eden Prairie authorities, the neighborhood was infuriated.
After a pair of wild peacocks moved in, some Eden Prairie neighbors are freaking out.
The peacocks would be the HOA president without a doubt if they were people. The issue is that they can be noisy and even aggressive at times.
Was a Burnsville neighborhood hit by an airborne poop drop?
Some residents of the south metro claim that on Friday, May 12, everything was normal until something smelly started to fall from the sky.
At the Caribou Coffee drive-thru located in Burnsville near the intersection of Highway 13 and Cliff Road, Carisa Browne was standing in line.
“I was standing in line to buy my regular cup of coffee.and brown suddenly dropped onto my car,” Browne remarked. “It appeared as though brown rain suddenly fell in a flash. “What just happened to us?” was my reaction as I got out and approached the automobile in front of me. He said, “I have no idea,” at that point.
Huge snowdrift aptly called “Mt. Eden Prairie”
The newest climatic craze that’s hitting the city and the internet by storm is “Mt. Eden Prairie”.
While some might view a messy snowdrift in a Target parking lot, others see a chance to foster community.
