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17 Feb 2009 10:10

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Offbeat: OK, this chimpanzee story is really weird.

  • A 200-pound pet chimpanzee in Stamford, Conn., Monday viciously mauled a woman he had known for years, leaving her critically injured with much of her face torn away, the authorities said.
  • Andy Newman • Reporter for The New York Times, in the lede for the story he wrote today. The chimp was shot dead, by the way, and, well … we don’t have anything else to say. • source

15 Jan 2009 11:07

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Offbeat: Man impersonates female vet, almost gets away with it

  • Danielle Smith ≠ Daniel Tyce. Tyce, of Atlantic City, N.J., ran an animal clinic, but he didn’t have any of the credentials he claimed he did. He’d drive around in a vehicle labeled “Animal Cruelty Investigations” with an assistant and would inoculate animals and set up adoptions dressed up like a police officer. No clue why he had to do all this pretending to be a chick. source