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Get ready for 'Bongzilla,' selfie frenzy at Vegas pot museum
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A glass bong taller than a giraffe. Huggable faux marijuana buds. A pool full of foam weed nuggets.Las Vegas' newest attraction — and Instagram backdrop — is a museum celebrating all things cannabis.
Nobody will be allowed to light up at Cannabition when it opens Thursday because of a Nevada ban on public consumption of marijuana, but visitors can learn about the drug as they snap photos.
It's a made-for-social-media museum where every exhibit has lights meant to ensure people take selfies worthy of the no-filter... Read More
Too soon? Fans find Red Sox division title banner in street
SOMERVILLE, Mass. (AP) — The Boston Red Sox have not clinched this year's American League East division championship, but a banner marking the accomplishment has already been accidentally unveiled.Boson-area friends Louie Iacuzzi, James Amaral and Randy Baldasarri say they found the banner on a road Monday morning after it apparently fell off a delivery truck in Somerville, Massachusetts.
But the trio held onto the banner for two days, hoping they'd be rewarded with game tickets or a chance to meet their favorite players.
Instead, the Boston Globe... Read More
Man who walked near boiling-hot Old Faithful geyser ticketed
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Yellowstone National Park officials have ticketed a man caught on video wandering close to Old Faithful geyser, where he risked burns from the boiling-hot water that erupts every hour or so.The man's actions between eruptions startled a crowd of a couple hundred people at the park's most famous attraction. At one point, he lay on the ground near the gurgling hole.
"A bunch of the crowd thought he was going to jump. We didn't know what was going to happen," said Ashley Lemanski of Harbor Beach, Michigan, who shot the video Friday.
Huge squirrel population chomps crops, driving farmers nuts
There's a bumper crop of squirrels in New England, and the frenetic critters are frustrating farmers by chomping their way through apple orchards, pumpkin patches and corn fields.The varmints are fattening themselves for winter while destroying the crops with bite marks.
Robert Randall, who has a 60-acre orchard in Standish, Maine, said he's never seen anything like it.
"They're eating the pumpkins. They're eating the apples. They're raising some hell this year. It's the worst I've ever seen," he said.
Evidence of the squirrel population explosion... Read More
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