Driver convicted of running down mother duck

Massachusetts - A driver who ran over and killed a mother duck walking her 12 ducklings across a Massachusetts mall parking lot has been sentenced to a year of probation. Witnesses say Joshua Linhares deliberately drove at the ducks in the Dartmouth Mall parking lot in June, turning sharply and speeding up. Surveillance video from nearby stores supported their account. The 25-year-old Acushnet resident testified he didn’t see the ducks because he was distracted by a woman waving her arms at him. He says he left the scene because he panicked.---...More

Woman who hid sedated monkey on flight convicted

SPOKANE, Washington - A Spokane woman who hid a sedated monkey under her blouse on a flight from Thailand to Los Angeles - pretending she was pregnant - has been convicted of smuggling charges.
Gypsy Lawson, 29, successfully passed through U.S. Customs in Los Angeles with the rhesus monkey hidden in her shirt after the November 2007 trip. More...

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