Source: "Daily Comedies " - retrospective
of the year - The news "O Estado de São Paulo",
29/12/1996
The female
dog phone operator
Lyric, an Irish Setter female dog (8 years old) saved its owner's
life using the telephone to call the doctors in Nashua, New Hampishire.
When Lyric heard an alarm, indicating that Judy's oxygen mask had stopped
working while she slept, the animal ran to the telephone and "dialed" the
number 911, for emergency calls. Lyric was trained in an agency specialized
in dogs.
Man bites dog
The thief Ricardo Gulberson was trying run away after robbing a hotel and
a cab, but he ended upe by being cornered by the police on a street of
Miami Beach, in the USA. When he was being attacked by the police
dog Myrus, he gave a bite on the animal's neck. Gulberson was only settled
down with the use of a paralyzing spray.
The donkey's
"statement"
Vadico, a 9 year-old donkey, attended a São Paulo police station
" to render statement " and to be submitted to a "confront", in order to
try to identify the possible robbery authors of a gold tooth from its mouth.
Alive Fish
The fisherman Natan Coelho of
Nascimento, 18 years old, died from asphyxia in Belém (Brazil),
after gobbling an alive fish, a sardine size. He fished it in Maguari
River, when the fish jumped into his mouth, during a yawn.
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