Apparently, it apparently was

Officials said the dolphin, called Sharky, hit the other dolphin during a Sunday show at SeaWorld's Discovery Cove. The accident was apparently a freak accident.

Views of bags blocked by bags

"My experience has shown that individuals engaging in lewd conduct use their bags to block the view from the front of their stall," said the officer, Sgt. Dave Karsnia, in the report.

The report continued: "At 1216 hours, Craig tapped his right foot. I recognized this as a signal used by persons wishing to engage in lewd conduct. Craig tapped his toes several times and moves his foot closer to my foot. I moved my foot up and down slowly. While this was occurring, the male in the stall to my right was still present. I could hear several unknown persons in the restroom that appeared to use the restroom for its intended use. The presence of others did not seem to deter Craig as he moved his right foot so that it touched the side of my left foot which was within my stall area."

--idahostatesman.com

City officials acknowledge the problem

City officials acknowledge the problem, but they say that the heroin addicts are only a small percentage of the toilets' users. Since January, the public toilet outside the aquarium was used nearly 12,000 times, and its owners say it is the busiest in the world.

–Boston Globe, 8 August 2003

Man drinks blood from sewer, worries

A Minneapolis city worker is worried about blood in the sewer system because he said, while he was cleaning the system, blood sprayed out of a hole and got all over him.

Blood just all over my face, in my mouth, I could taste it. It was terrible. I had it in my mouth and I kept spitting and I couldn't get rid of it," said Huebner.

Huebner said he hasn't been sleeping much. He's worried about the blood that he swallowed when he was operating a jet machine to clean out the sewer.

The company, R & D Systems, does have a permit to dump blood in the sewer system.

-wcco.com

Trees fly downards undgerground, US to blame?

"It is very dangerous. If a person had been in this disaster, he would have had almost no chance of survival. The trees flew downwards, under the ground," said Dmitry Zaitsev, a local Emergencies Ministry official interviewed by the channel.

Officials in Nizhegorodskaya region, on the Volga river east of Moscow, said water in the lake might have been sucked down into an underground water-course or cave system, but some villagers had more sinister explanations.

"I am thinking, well, America has finally got to us," said one old woman, as she sat on the ground outside her house.

Simply gay in Welch, WVa

"He was simply a gay man in Welch, West Virginia. And because of that we can only assume that Chief Bowman assumed he had HIV and it was unsafe to even touch him," Saxe said.

AP, March 3, 2006

Harvard releases plague of rats

Regardless of what sent rats scurrying into Allston's streets, others are concerned that Harvard's massive expansion into Allston will unleash a plague of rats. City Councilor Jerry P. McDermott, whose district covers Allston and Brighton, is going to ask Harvard to pay for rodent control for all of North Brighton and Allston.

"They've envisioned Allston as a massive undertaking. They will certainly be unearthing rodents and disturbing them,'' McDermott said.

Boston Herald, 8 june 2005