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Georgia Grandmother Strangles Rabid Bobcat To Death With Her Bare Hands
By Ray Downs
June 17 (UPI) -
- A Georgia grandmother strangled a rabid bobcat to death with her bare hands.
DeDe Phillips, 67, had just put a bumper sticker on the back of her truck that read: "Women who behave rarely make history" and was about to take a photo of it when the bobcat crept into her backyard, facing her.
"My neighbor's dog was barking and it drew my
attention," Phillips told the Athens Banner-Herald. "I saw the cat and I took a picture. The cat took two steps and was on top of me. ... It came for my face."
But Phillips fought the cat off.
"As soon as it took the first step, I was in trouble and I knew it," she told CBS 46- TV. "When it got to [the] pole, it leaped on me...I grabbed it by the shoulders and pushed it back away from me...and I took it
down."
The bobcat bit and scratched but Phillips wrapped her hands around its neck and didn't let go.
"I strangled it to death," she said.
Animal Control officers came by later and found the bobcat was rabid. Phillips said she will require costly medical attention and her family set-up an online fundraiser to help pay for the treat- ment
Signs Seeking Return Of Heirloom: 'My Mother Will Kill Me'
By
The Associated Press
A recent college graduate desper- ate to recover a family heirloom mistakenly left curbside when he moved out of his apartment is plastering his neighborhood with signs warn- ing, "My mother will kill me."
Colin Trimmer is offering a reward for the return of
his great-grandmoth- er's iron and brass bed frame, given to him by his mother when he moved into his apartment near Tufts University.
The bed frame was left curbside last month by new tenants of the apartment, who mistakenly thought Trimmer had already moved out and it was trash.
Trimmer's moth- er, Carol Kazmer, tells the Boston Globe the bed frame was one of the few items her grandmother had to leave to her 17 grandchil- dren.
She says the bed frame is "just a thing," but she'd like it back and the reward would be "siz- able."
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