OFFBEAT NEWS:

Rejected Tiger Cub Being Cared For In Couple’s Home

Monica Farell and Saad Rose are a German couple who own a park with 13 tigers and five lions  near Germany’s Baltic coast. They also happen to have a pet tiger cub in their home.

The couple took in Elsa when she was a cub after she was rejected from her mother, who was part of a traveling circus. Farrell says having Else is “a full-time job, like with a baby.” That includes giving her cat milk from the bottle and taking her for a walk in the woods or on the beach.

Elsa won’t be staying for long though. She’s set to move into an enclosure in the tiger park in March.

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Mom Turns Her Back, One Of Her Kids Gets On A Train

Parents often use the expression “I only turned my back for a second!” and for one mom visiting Berlin, she experienced the worst case scenario. The woman, from Peru but living in Italy, was with four of her children at Berlin’s main train station when she lost sight of all of them.

The understandably emotional woman contacted a police officer at the station and they were able to find two of the kids. A third was found at another station in Berlin, but her three-year-old had somehow boarded a high-speed train heading south.

Luckily, the train’s conductor spotted the boy and he was held by police in Leipzig, 100-miles south of Berlin. His mother and three siblings arrived three hours later to pick the little rascal up.

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STUPID CRIMINALS:

Wrong number leads cop to a drug deal:

If you’re going to set up a drug deal via text, make sure you double check the phone numbers. Sheriff Leland Falcon from Pierre Part, Louisiana says one of his deputies got a text from 39-year-old Dwayne Paul Herbert looking to sell meth. The unidentified officer set up the deal. When Herbert arrived on the scene, he was carrying crystal meth and two firearms and now faces charges of possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute, possession of a firearm in the presence of a controlled substance and two counts of resisting an officer.

Robbers leave a literal cash trail behind:

It wasn’t hard for police in Rochester, New York to figure out who robbed a local Chase Bank. Joseph Peeples III made out with $110-thousand then took a cab to a bus station. He ended up forgetting his jacket in cab, which had $10,000 in a pocket. Peeples then dumped $43-thousand in the restroom garbage can at bus station. He made it to a hotel in Binghamton before cops arrested him. By the time authorities got there, Peeples had $50-thousand on him.

Man tried to sell a stolen monkey via text:

Jackson and Jessie George decided it would not only be a good idea to take an exotic monkey stolen from a wildlife park in Australia, but to then try and sell it via text. There are screenshots proving Jackson said he “paid nothing” for the animal and “got it from the zoo last night.” He also admitted the monkey he may want to sell after keeping it “for a few days [and] seeing how it goes” was one of three taken along with a baby kangaroo. The three monkeys were all rescued in good health. No word on where the kangaroo is. In the meantime, Jackson was given a $2,500 fine while Jessie paid $15-hundred last year for the crime.