Man Fights Bear For 40 Minutes To Save Pet Goat: Weird News & Oddities

A Connecticut man grabbed a shovel and spent 40 minutes fighting off a black bear to rescue his pet goat, Cole, getting clawed in the process before his bulldog and wife (with a rifle fired into the air) helped run the bear off. Cole survived, the family survived, and the bear survived to remind everyone that human-bear conflicts in Connecticut are very much on the rise, with 110 nuisance calls already logged this year. The rest of this week’s weird news roundup includes a New Jersey man who found dentures in his Jersey Mike’s delivery, a Florida activist routing anonymous tenant complaints through a service called “Joe Snitch,” and a purple elephant seal in California who turned out to be fine, just briefly tie-dyed by red algae.