From the current Harper’s Weekly Review:<\/p>\n
Torrential rains in New York City caused massive flooding in subway stations, streets, and homes, and allowed a sea lion to briefly escape from her enclosure at the Central Park Zoo.<\/em><\/p>\n In Central Greece, a herd of sheep, looking for grass after fields had flooded, entered a greenhouse and ate 100 kilograms of cannabis. \u201cI don\u2019t know if it\u2019s for laughing or for crying,\u201d said the greenhouse owner.<\/em><\/p>\n Javier Milei, an anarcho-capitalist candidate for Argentina\u2019s presidency who owns an English mastiff named after Milton Friedman and routinely appears at campaign stops wielding a chainsaw, denied during a pre-election debate that 30,000 people were disappeared under the country\u2019s military junta.<\/em><\/p>\n A tortoise escaped the vet for the third time…<\/em><\/p>\n …an eight-foot albino boa constrictor was found stuck beneath a car in Myrtle Beach, and a support alligator named Wally was denied entry to a Phillies game.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cNo one is safe \u2026 It\u2019s hell when someone finds themselves confronted with this,\u201d said the deputy mayor of Paris about an outbreak of bedbugs in the city\u2019s Metro system.<\/em><\/p>\n A moose was found wandering the underground train tracks in Stockholm.<\/em><\/p>\n [I]t was reported that a beetle named after Hitler was approaching extinction because neo-Nazis wouldn\u2019t stop buying it.<\/em><\/p>\n An Arkansas police officer chased a trespassing chicken for more than four minutes.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" From the current Harper’s Weekly Review: Torrential rains in New York City caused massive flooding in subway stations, streets, and homes, and allowed a sea lion to briefly escape from her enclosure at the Central Park Zoo. In Central Greece, … Continue reading