The Week (US)

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A Pennsylvan­ia couple realized a bank teller had mistakenly deposited $120,000 in their account, and went on a wild spending spree. Robert and Tiffany Williams bought an SUV, a race car, a four-wheeler, a camper, a car trailer—and also loaned their friends $15,000, before the accidental windfall was discovered by BB&T Bank managers. The Williamses were then told they were “responsibl­e for the return of all funds” and charged with felony theft. Robert Williams blamed “some bad legal advice” for the spending, adding, “It probably wasn’t the best thing in the end.” A New England lobsterman caught a half-brown, half-orange lobster so rare that scientists put the odds of catching one at 1 in 50 million. Capt. Daryl Dunham snagged his extraordin­ary bounty off Bar Harbor, Maine. Experts credit the crustacean’s perfect bifurcatio­n—with the two colors divided straight down the middle—to a rare genetic mutation. Dunham donated it to the Maine Center for Coastal Fisheries, which plans to release the lobster into the ocean later this year. “We’ve seen some pretty cool lobsters,” said the center in a Facebook post, “but this one might be a first!” An Indian villager has been attacked by a group of vengeful crows every day for the past three years. Shiva Kewat of Sumela said the “sudden and frightenin­g” assaults began after he tried to rescue a chick who’d become stuck in iron netting. “It died in my hands,” he said. “They believe I killed the chick.” Kewat said the squawking birds dive-bomb only him, not other people, and that the attacks commence the moment he leaves his house. “If only I can explain to them, I was only trying to help.”

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