Metro News

  Astoria, Oregon - In a bizarre turn of events, a man named Richard Tickle claimed to have found a live mouse in his bottle of Coors Light beer. However, upon further investigation, the Astoria Oregon Police Department discovered that Tickle had actually raised a baby mouse inside the bottle in an attempt to defraud the Coors Light company. Tickle's alleged discovery of the live mouse in his beer bottle had initially made headlines and caused widespread concern among Coors Light drinkers. However, police officials began to investigate the matter and quickly found inconsistencies in Tickle's story. Upon questioning, Tickle eventually admitted that he had inserted a baby mouse into the beer bottle before sealing it back up and reporting the alleged find. He had apparently hoped to cash in on a lucrative settlement from the beer company. "This was a particularly egregious case of fraud," said Astoria Police Chief David Press. "We take all allegations of product tam...

  A photo that shows a flash of green light resembling something like a comet above the peak of Central Java’s Mount Merapi was indeed from a meteor shower, authorities have confirmed.  The photo, which gained traction on social media over the weekend, was taken by a photographer named Gunarto, who shared three photos of the stunning phenomenon on his Instagram account @gunarto_song. “Meteor fell into the peak of Mount Merapi?” the caption reads. The post has received more than 23,700 likes at the time of writing since it was uploaded on Saturday. Gunarto said that he initially wanted to capture the nighttime scenery of Mount Merapi from a site named Batu Alien (Alien Rock), a place where a large rock from the top of the volcano landed after a blast. Mount Merapi, which is Indonesia’s most active volcano, is located on the border of Magelang and Sleman regencies. Gunarto said he was fixated on some clouds that suddenly appeared at the peak, when the light came down from the sk...

  Betsy Wetsy cir. 1957      In 1934 the Ideal Toy Company of New York introduced the “Betsy Wetsy” doll.  And in honor of the doll’s 87 th birthday, the Hasbro Toys who now holds the license is introducing an updated “Grandma Betsy Wetsy” doll.  According to Frank Shermocker Hasbro’s Chief Marketing Manager “This is an exciting time in the doll market.  Children still love their dolls and their parents love sharing with them.”  The Grandma Betsy Wetsy will work in much the same way as the original doll, in a new design.  Now young children can practice changing the diapers of their grandparents in a practice of their future.  The new redesigned doll will feature an older woman type look.  Betsy will offer the same great potty training fun you experienced in your childhood.  "Relive you childhood and teach your kids to change diapers", is the dolls tag line.  One wonders what Hasbro was thinking, in this doomed to fail p...