News of the Weird: Week of August 14 2025(shepherdexpress.com)

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News of the Weird: Week of August 14 2025

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A hungry osprey drops its dinner on a power line and fries the grid. A Danish zoo politely asks people to donate their pet bunnies to be euthanized and fed to lions. A ballplayer gets traded during the seventh‑inning stretch and has to switch dugouts mid‑game. Somewhere in France, farmers are fighting van‑squatters with tractors and tanks of slurry, while over in Germany a driver manages 199 mph on the Autobahn on a stretch with a speed limit of 79 mph.

Then there’s the bear in Wisconsin walking around with a jar stuck on her head, wolves being deterred by drones blasting AC/DC and Marriage Story audio, and a scholarship that requires climbing six mountains instead of writing an essay. A Catholic parish even made up a Corvette‑raffle winner. If there’s a pattern here, it’s that reality occasionally feels like a Monty Python sketch.