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2 | EXPRESS | 03.17.2017 | WEEKEND
SALVATORE ALLEGRA (AP)
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INTERACTIVE TV
THAT’S NUTS!
TOTALLY UNFAIR
Hunting channel viewer alerts Wyoming officials to poachers
‘Artist’ clearly has the words ‘project’ and ‘projectile’ mixed up
Moodiness: The last thing anyone would associate with teenagers
Two Kentucky men have been fined nearly $31,000 and stripped of their hunting privileges in most of the country for 15 years after poaching two bull elk in Wyoming in 2014 while filming an episode of “Hunting in the Sticks” on the Pursuit Channel. A viewer reported that the men killed elk in the wrong hunting district. Said an investigator: “I believe the two defendants were driven to get kill-shot footage for the television show ...” (AP)
A dog walker in Berlin was lucky to escape injury from, yes, a flying coconut. He was walking March 1 when he heard a bang before a ball-shaped projectile flew past him, hitting a lamppost. Police were called and found a large, homemade cannon that used compressed air to shoot coconuts at high speeds. A 23-year-old man explained that he had helped to build the cannon for an art project and wanted to test it. Police impounded it. (AP)
The new school scheduled to open soon in Orange County, Fla., is named Innovation Park Middle School. Oops. Parents want a new name, concerned that the students will be ridiculed because of the school’s acronym. “They don’t want to go to a school and wear a red shirt with the letters IPMS across the shirt for athletics, for academic competitions,” parent Christal Feldman told WKMG-TV. (EXPRESS)
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VOLCANIC DANGER:
Snow-covered Mount Etna in Sicily, Italy, erupts Thursday for the second day in a row. Volcanic rocks and steam injured at least 10 people. They were caught by surprise when spewing magma hit snow, causing an explosion.