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Amy Highmoor said property managers and neighbors are retaliating against her because of her “naturalist” lifestyle after she and fellow tenant Brent Thomas were ordered to move out of their Nuuanu, Hawaii, rental home over complaints about their loud, naked parties.
Ian Sutherland and his girlfriend, Alexa Lee, found what they believe is a stash of Prohibition-era alcohol in their Massachusetts home when they uncovered a hidden compartment that contained 56 dusty bottles, some of which still contained liquid that Sutherland says appears to be beer and moonshine.
Kim Gabica and Matt Gabica, owners of We Rent Goats, a business that rents the animals out to eat unwanted wild plants, had to round up 118 of the animals after they escaped from an enclosure in Boise, Idaho, and began munching on manicured lawns in a nearby neighborhood.
Todd Kincannon, 37, the former head of South Carolina’s Republican Party, was arrested after, police said, he choked and stabbed his mother’s 10-year-old beagle mix at her Greenville, S.C., home, telling officers that he was the second coming of Jesus Christ and that God told him to kill the dog.
Mark Johnston, who lives in Garden City, Mich., said a 30-pound wild turkey that moved into his overgrown yard can stay as long as it wants after the city dropped a $100 fine against Johnston for harboring a wild animal when it became clear that the bird was not his pet.
Josue Fernando Gonzalez Aguilar was visiting the Africam Safari in Mexico, where people can tour the park in their cars while the animals roam about freely, when he videotaped a rhinoceros following and repeatedly ramming the back bumper of an SUV.
Taylor Hamlin, 18, was dethroned as the 2018 Maine Lobster Festival Sea Goddess less than 24 hours after receiving the crown because of what organizers describe as photos of “inappropriate behavior” on her social media page.
Daniel Casey Ward, 31, of Georgia was arrested and charged with stalking and unlawful surveillance after, police said, he followed women around a Walmart store and used his phone to take video up their dresses.
Charlie Dayoub and Raul Fernandez, two former Florida police officers, pleaded guilty to depriving a 16-year-old boy of his civil rights after they framed him for several burglaries to improve their arrest statistics.