Gull swallows plastic bag

Tragic. Unfortunately I do admittedly use a lot of plastic bags. I have cats, and I use them for cleaning litter boxes. If someone can give me a realistic option, I would be happy to all but eliminate plastic bags from my life as much as reasonably possible...

Bureaucracy leads to death of 300,000 chicks and broilers

A Russian video. The blurb on TYWIKIWIDBI where I found the video states:

Found at English Russia, where this incident in the Kursk region was blamed on delinquent taxes and a convoluted bureaucracy. "The employees are putting to death one-day old chickens with tears. 'It’s as if a mother killed her child', – poultry-women explain their feelings."

If only they really did quickly put them to death. What they did was leave them to die.

6 hours riding buses to get kids to school and home again

UK woman spends up to 6 hours a day riding buses to take all of her children to school and then return them home again.

"Flesh wound" results in jaw and skull removal

British soldier has part of his head shot away, and the insurance company claims it is only a flesh wound.