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A Canadian curling team that included a 2014 Olympian was ejected from a tournament for being “extremely drunk” and for “unsportsmanlike” behavior. Red Deer Curling Classic organizers accused Team Jamie Koe of showing up drunk, trashing the locker room, and, once out on the ice, breaking their curling brooms, the devices used to sweep the ice ahead of the “stone.” “At the end of the day, it was like OK, that’s enough of this gong show,” said Wade Thurber, who hosted the event in Alberta. Afterward, gold medalist Ryan Fry admitted he and his teammates deserved to be disqualified, describing their actions as “truly disrespectful and embarrassing.”

A British supermarket chain has become the country’s first mainstream grocer to sell edible insects. The Eat Grub brand of Smoky BBQ Crunchy Roasted Crickets, described as having “a rich, smoky flavor,” can be eaten as snacks or as a garnish on tacos, noodles, and salads. A single bag of 50 crispy crickets costs about $2. Reviews are mixed, although one shopper claimed he “LOVED” the crickets after buying them online. “Much tastier than a bag of crisps (potato chips) without the calories,” he raved. “Couldn’t stop eating them!”

An animal welfare officer in England rescued a hamster from a drainpipe by lowering a tiny homemade ladder to where he was trapped. Alison Sparkes was summoned on the sixth day of the hamster’s ordeal, after the owner’s multiple attempts to recover Jamie from the tight space failed. Sparkes fashioned a 3-foot-long ladder out of wire mesh and slid it down the pipe. “That evening he emerged,” Sparkes said. “Very thirsty, but OK.”