Saturday, August 18, 2007
THIS DAY IN MINNESOTA HISTORY

August 18, 1929
A 350-pound bear is killed in the Hotel Duluth's lounge. The bear had followed truck driver Arvid Peterson and his shipment of fish into the city, and, attracted by the smell of food in the Hotel Duluth's coffee shop, broke through the window of the lounge. The hotel's night watchman, Albert Nelson, and a local unnamed drunk confront the bear, hitting it with a chair and a hammer. Others call the police, and Sergeant Eli LeBeau shoots the bear after trying first to corner it unharmed to return it to the woods. The bear is the third killed in Duluth that year.

With this video, I'm not sure which is better - the goal, which is freaking insane, or the bright pink outfits of the team getting scored on. Watch the video. It's an impossible decision.



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Biker fails to notice missing leg
A Japanese biker failed to notice his leg had been severed below the knee when he hit a safety barrier, and rode on for more than a mile, leaving a friend to pick up the missing limb.


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