Otis the dog saw an opportunity and took it. Just one day after Hurricane Harvey hit southeastern Texas, many communities are picking up the pieces and doing what they need to do to survive the fallout – including Otis. Tiele Dockens was checking out the damage in her neighborhood in Sinton, Texas, when she spotted…
A disturbing video of a woman ranting racist slurs against an elderly couple on a trail is going viral. Her racist outburst stunned passengers, but several people, including a young boy, stood up against her. The video shows a senior woman berating an elderly Filipino couple and telling them to “go home” and “speak English”….
Two suspects got busted in the act and taught a lesson they’ll never forget after stealing mementos left by families at a cemetery. They would have gotten away with it, had it not been for surveillance cameras catching them red-handed. Residents in the town of London, Ohio, were dismayed to discover the keepsakes and mementos…
When floods recently struck Nepal and stranded hundreds of tourists in a jungle safari park, it was dozens of elephants who came to the rescue. The Rapti River had overflowed its banks in Sauraha, roughly 80 kilometers west of Kathmandu, leaving about 600 tourists stranded in the popular tourist destination. “Some 300 guests were rescued…
A daycare worker is being praised for stopping an alleged child abduction after a man tried to snatch two boys from a playground. Chelsi Sabbie says her mixed martial arts training came into play when she noticed a man approaching two of the boys in her care. Sabbie runs a daycare in Prince George, British…
At first glance it looks like a photoshopped picture, but the blue dog is real and turned blue because of untreated industrial waste being released into a river where they hunt for food. After reports and photos of the blue dogs began reaching the Thane Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) located…
A North Phoenix woman was shocked when her neighbor’s dog appeared at her home with a swastika symbol on his head. At first the homeowner didn’t know what to make of it, but it disturbed the woman, who is half Hispanic and mother to three adopted children of mixed race. The homeowner’s cousin, Sally Andrade,…
An Australian teenager is recovering in hospital after being severely bitten by mysterious sea creatures that left his ankles and feet bleeding profusely. 16-year-old Sam Kanizay waded into the water off Brighton Beach in Australia recently, and when he emerged from the water he realized he was bleeding heavily. He ran home quickly and called…
A quick-thinking boater is being called a hero for using his jet boat to spray a grass fire that broke out along the shores of the Thompson River in Kamloops, British Columbia. Boaters Koyne Watson and Tasha Hunt were relaxing on their jet boat when they spotted the fire break out on shore. Knowing they…
Being involved in a car accident is traumatizing for adults, let alone children. First responders know this, and quickly act to help calm kids in such distressing situations and bring along something to help – teddy bears. In the following video, Dutch police arrive at the scene of an accident that had two young children…
A California man was sentenced to 16 years in jail for killing 21 cats and sexually abusing a dead one nearly 2 years after cats began disappearing from people’s homes in San Jose’s Cambrian Park neighborhood. Robert Roy Farmer, 26, was arrested in October 2015 after police found him sleeping in his car with an…
A woman was stunned after receiving an anonymous letter filled with cash and a note explaining the reason why. A person had stolen her wallet years ago and now was reaching out as way of apology. Redditor stehigs321 decided to share a photo of the letter and its unusual contents online. As it turns out,…
A group of complete strangers helped save a family of six and four other swimmers after they were swept away by dangerous rip currents at Panama City Beach in Florida over the weekend. Two people involved in the rescue – Jessica and Derek Simmons – spotted beachgoers looking towards the water and knew something was…
A disturbing video was released by a Minnesota family after a uniformed Minneapolis police officer responding to an alarm call at their home appears to have shot their two dogs in the backyard over the weekend. Both dogs survived the shooting and are alive, but their owner, Jennifer LeMay, says that the dogs “weren’t attacking…
A Vancouver police officer berated a mother for leaving her children in a hot car while she grocery shopped and a video of the encounter was filmed by bystanders. Police said they received multiple emergency calls about her two children, aged 3 and 6, who were said to be in distress while alone inside the…
A northern Illinois man is being hailed as a hero after he jumped through the open window of a moving car to save the driver, who was having a seizure. According to the Dixon Police Department, Randy Tompkins was driving his truck when he spotted a car driving in the wrong lane and heading straight…
A bicylist came to the rescue of a tiny dog who got loose and was running in dangerous traffic in Mexico City. The bicyclist’s GoPro camera shows the harrowing chase from her POV as she tries to catch up with the tiny dog. The dog – which looks like a Yorkshire Terrier – has his…
Eighty-four Great Danes were found sliding in their own feces when authorities began searching the premises of a suspected puppy mill in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire on June 16, 2017. The large dogs, including several puppies, were living in filth and many in small kennels of a large home. Wolfeboro Police Chief Dean Rondeau said, “I’ve…
A groomer charged with felony animal cruelty in the case of Henry, a 1-year-old Dachshund who died last year after going to a PetSmart for a nail trim has been found not guilty by a jury in San Mateo County. Last year, the dog was taken to the PetSmart by chance by his owner after…
Deep in the forests of the Yakutia region in Russia’s arctic north are a group of men hunting for objects rarer than gemstones and more valuable than gold. They are digging for the tusks of pre-historic mammoths. Like gold prospectors of the past, these men are digging for a treasure that will make them wealthier…
Dozens of diners were trapped inside a restaurant on the third floor of a burning building with no way to escape until a vegetable truck comes to the rescue. Filmed in north China’s Hebei, this terrifying video shows people stuck on the third floor as bystanders are seen rushing to the building with a ladder…
A seriously ill dog was thrown out at a garbage dump because her owner didn’t want to pay her vet bills – that’s what an RSPCA suspects after the emaciated dog was discovered by two men in the trash heap. The men accidentally came across the 18-month-old Saluki when their vehicle broke down near to…
An Alabama mail carrier is facing animal cruelty charges after she allegedly fed a dog meatballs with nails inside, WHNT News 19 reported on June 1, 2017. 47-year-old Susanna Burhans was arrested after an investigation by the Madison County Sheriff’s Office and the U.S. Postal Service, which was prompted by a complaint two weeks ago….
Barbra Streisand is mourning the loss of her beloved dog, Sammie, after the 14 years together. The 75-year-old singer revealed the sad news on Instagram Saturday, sharing the last photo she and the Coton de Tuléar dog had taken together. “This is the last time my picture was taken with my beloved girl Samantha,” Streisand…
A Milwaukee woman refused to let thieves from stealing her car and jumped on the hood of her car at a gas station to stop them. Surveillance video from the BP station in Milwaukee shows Melissa Smith, 27, stopping the would-be carjackers by jumping onto her minivan. The footage is now going viral. Melissa pulled…
The Morning Glory Spillway, called the “Glory Hole” by locals in California, spilled over for the first time in 10 years in February of 2017. The overflow was a result of a month of rains filling the river in formerly drought-stricken California. It has also pushed Lake Berryessa in Napa County way beyond capacity, pouring…
Park rangers came to the rescue of a dog chained to a cinderblock in the water and purposely left to drown at shoreline of Longview Lake, south of Kansas City, Mo. The dog was covered in mud and chained to a 12×12 cinderblock and “presumably left to drown in high water levels” according to Great…
A Peruvian news reporter interrupted a live report on the severe flooding in his country to rescue a dog. Aaron Rodriguez, a reporter for broadcaster Latina Noticias, had travelled to the area of Piura to cover the severe flooding in the northern region of the country at the end of March 2017. Rodriguez was standing…
People in Sweden have gathered to mourn the loss of four people killed in a terrorist attack on Friday April 7, 2017. After a hijacked truck drove into pedestrians in a shopping district in Stockholm, Swedes have visited the site of the tragedy and left flowers and other memorial tokens to commemorate those who lost their lives. It was while paying his…
Eileen Eagle Bears and her horse, Mr. Smudge, made multiple hour-long outings in the middle of a snowstorm to bring food to a truck driver stranded in his truck in Manitoba, Canada. Eileen and her family saw the stranded trucker on a road’s surveillance cameras and thought she wanted to do something to help him….
“Do they not have a tranquilizer gun? I’m not happy. There was no need to shoot the dog.” That was the opinion voiced by New Zealand news announcer Hilary Barry after an Auckland Airport dog was shot dead after getting loose on the airfield and delaying flights. The border collie/ german shorthair pointer cross had…
They may be victims of becoming too popular. Several of the famous swimming pigs of Exuma Islands in the Bahamas are dead because of tourists feeding them. Although it was widely reported that the pigs may have died from being fed rum and beer by tourists, the autopsy on several of the dead pigs indicate…
Keith Ezell was on his way to work in Cleveland, Ohio, when he rolled up to a car accident and saved a life. The 36-year-old nurse assistant heard the driver of one of the cars begging for help for his passenger. The young girl had stopped breathing. Ezell had just recently completed a new CPR…
A disturbing video showing a dog being dragged by a motorized wheelchair has lead to the arrest of the dog’s owner in Texas. Melissa Torrez was driving in her Mission neighborhood when she saw a man dragging his German Shepherd down a sidewalk. “I’m out of my car yelling at him, asking him: ‘What are…
A Los Angeles man makes it his life’s mission to foster terminally ill children. For the last 22 years, Mohamed Bzeek has been caring for terminally ill children in the Los Angeles County foster system. He has cared for more than 40 kids, 10 of them dying right under his roof. Many parents who are…
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