Things Jen Found On The Internet – September 28
Some Things You’ll Probably Forget, It’s Things Jen Found On The Internet
Magawa, a 5-year-old African giant pouched rat, was recognized with a prestigious honor for his work detecting mines and explosives in Cambodia.
Magawa has discovered 39 land mines and 28 pieces of unexploded ordnance, and helped clear more than 1.5 million square feet of land over the past four years. The ability to sniff out TNT makes him much faster than any person in searching for land mines, as he can ignore scrap metal that would usually be picked up by a metal detector.
He can search an area the size of a tennis court in 30 minutes, whereas a person with a metal detector would usually take four days to search an area of that size. When he finds a mine, he signals to his handler by scratching at the earth above it. Unlike humans, Magawa is too light to detonate a mine, so there is minimal risk of injury.
Magawa is the first rat to receive the award — a gold medal bestowed by the People’s Dispensary for Sick Animals, a British charity, that is often called the “animal’s George Cross” after an honor usually given to civilians that recognizes acts of bravery and heroism.
The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office shared the video on Facebook. According to the post, an on-duty sheriff’s deputy, who remains unidentified, was serving civil papers at the time of the encounter.
She had left the car door open. Moments later, a new (and uninvited) passenger arrived.
The deputy hurries back to the car, trying to nudge the goat from the front seat while fighting for papers in its mouth.
When the furry creature finally exits the vehicle — leaving chewed-up documents and a beverage that’s no longer contained to the cup holder — it knocks her to the ground with its head.
Jeopardy! contestant decided to playfully answer the question about Batman using a Bane voice. The answer was obviously correct.
