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Lioness in heat to be exiled from zoo
MONCTON, New Brunswick, Nov. 4 (UPI) -- A lioness in a Canadian zoo in New Brunswick will be moved after attacking a juvenile male who didn't understand her needs while she was in heat, the zoo says.
A spokesman for the Magnetic Hill Zoo in Moncton told the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. 11-year-old Kito apparently didn't get over the death of her first male mate in January.
The zoo brought in two cubs, a male and a female, after the lion's death as companions. The male, named Azizi, wasn't sexually mature, although Kito didn't seem to understand each time she went into mating estrus, Bruce Dougan, general manager of the zoo told the CBC.
"When she did that she became frustrated with Azizi, who didn't know what his role was in that situation," Dougan said. "He was a very young male, and that frustration turned to anger and then aggression."
Despite hormonal treatments, Kito attacked Azizi, and once inflicted a serious rake-gash on the young lion's back.
The felines are now separated by a fence and the zoo is working at relocating the frustrated Kito back to her source facility in Ontario, the report said.
Police: Man without ride stole ambulance
RICHMOND, Mich., Nov. 4 (UPI) -- Michigan State Police said a man denied a ride from people at a hospital stole an ambulance.
Sgt. Craig Nyeholt with the Michigan State Police Richmond Post said Marcus Belgrave Jr., 31, of Detroit, stole a Richmond Lenox EMS ambulance idling outside the emergency room entrance of St. John River District Hospital in East China Township, the Port Huron (Mich.) Times Herald reported.
Belgrave took the ambulance after failing to get a ride Saturday to his car in St. Clair, Mich., police said.
Nyeholt said Belgrave was pulled over in the ambulance and arrested without incident. He was charged with one count of unlawful driving away of a motor vehicle. He is due back in court for a preliminary examination Nov. 10.
Nyeholt said he does not know why Belgrave was at the hospital Saturday.
'Hottest bachelor' arrested for fire alarm
NAPLES, Fla., Nov. 4 (UPI) -- A Florida man who graced a "hottest bachelors" magazine was arrested for allegedly pulling a fire alarm while dressed as Pamela Anderson, police say.
Ingmar "Iggy" Sprude, 28, of East Naples, who appeared on the cover of Gulfshore Life magazine's recent "hottest bachelors of 2009" issue, allegedly twice pulled the fire alarm inside of the Sway Lounge nightclub in Naples, Fla., Saturday night and early Sunday, the Naples News reported.
Collier County sheriff's deputies said they were called to the nightclub about 1 a.m. Sunday to investigate a fire alarm and were told by fire officials the alarm was the second one of the night at the same nightclub. They said the alarm sparked evacuations both times.
Deputies said security tapes recorded a man dressed as Pamela Anderson's character from the TV series "Baywatch" -- including a red bathing suit, swim shorts, flip-flops and blond wig -- pulling the alarm. Security guards from the nightclub spotted a man in the same costume boarding a trolley and deputies arrested him aboard the vehicle.
Sprude was charged with falsely activating a fire pull station, a felony.
Police: Peeper accidentally recorded self
SIMI VALLEY, Calif., Nov. 4 (UPI) -- Police in California allege a Family Christian Book Store employee accidentally recorded himself setting up a peeping camera in the store's bathroom.
The Simi Valley Police Department said Joseph David Ramon Moreaux, 28, of Lancaster, Calif., accidentally taped himself hiding the camera between boxes in the corner of a store restroom used by both men and women, KTLA-TV, Los Angeles, reported.
The camera was discovered Sunday by a female patron who alerted police to its presence. Officers said they found the video of Moreaux hiding the camera on the device.
Police said they had not determined how long the camera was in place or how many victims there may have been.
Moreaux was arrested Sunday and charged with peeping with a recording device.
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