Weird News

[Lamplighter]

Not so weird or surprising for Oregonians but still news...

WRAL.com
Jeff Barnard, Associated Press
11/28/11

Wandering wolf inspires hope and dread

GRANTS PASS, Ore. — A young wolf from Oregon has become a media celebrity while looking for love,
tracing a zigzag path that has carried him hundreds of miles nearly to California,
while his alpha male sire and a sibling that stayed home near the Idaho border
are under a death warrant for killing cattle.

Backcountry lodge owner Liz Parrish thinks she locked eyes with the wolf called OR-7
on the edge of the meadow in front of her Crystalwood Lodge,
on the western shore of Upper Klamath Lake,
and hopes someday she will hear his howls coming out of the tall timber.
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Federal protection for wolves was lifted in Eastern Oregon, but they remain under state protection.
West of Interstate 97 they are back under federal protection.

When wolves reach about 2 years old, they typically strike out on their own,
looking for a mate and an empty territory they can call their own.
And that's what OR-7 has done.

So far there have been no reports of cattle killing along his path.

FWIW, the path this wolf has taken is through some very inhospitable high desert country,
until he got closer to Crater Lake in southwestern Oregon.
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[Lamplighter]

Tofu Explosion
OregonLive.com
11/20/11
Paul Corah, a spokesman for the Portland Fire Bureau, said investigators
were baffled at first when a woman cooking tofu in her Northwest Portland apartment
Sunday night caused an explosion that blew out a 4-by-6 foot picture window
and caused an estimated $15,000 in damage.
The woman suffered a small burn to her hand but was otherwise unhurt.



After consultation with other investigators up and down the West Coast, Corah said,
it appears grease in a pan used to cook the tofu overheated and caught fire.
When the woman put the fiery pan in the sink to douse it, the water caused
“a sudden and extreme flare-up of flaming oil” and a “massive steam production.”
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