We couldn't leave it that way
A man in Oklahoma City fell ill halfway through mowing his lawn. The firefighters who came for him put him in the ambulance, then looked at the grass.
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Then it pooped
A bald eagle was lying on the ground at a landfill in south Georgia and the man who found it was sure it was dead. It had one way left of disagreeing.
It was a big job for one kid.
A Grade 4 boy in La Ronge collected 9,000 to 23,000 cans and bottles this summer for the school playground. He wanted a thousand dollars. He handed over 2,300.
He asked Texas for 100 birthday cards. Four thousand came.
Weldon Bowen, a Marine who enlisted in August 1945, turned 100 on Saturday at the veterans home in Tyler, Texas. In August the state asked people to send him 100 cards. By his party there were 4,000, and one woman drove hers over herself.
He bought a fifth of a barley farm to shoot ducks. Then he flooded it.
In 2017 Karl Wenner, a retiring surgeon in Klamath Falls, Oregon, bought into Lakeside Farms for the duck hunting, found the farm was pumping phosphorus into the lake next door, and four years later diked off 70 of its 400 acres and let the water in. The ducks came in their tens of thousands, then 140 species of birds, then the first endangered fish ever released on private land.
