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While the method of killing the geese has not been made public, the United States Department of Agriculture AND ENDS told Denverite that the unnamed processing plant is following American Veterinary WEIRD NEWS Medical Association guidelines. Dateline: Massachusetts Organizers of the “Straight Pride Parade” that Dateline: United Kingdom is slated to be held next month in Boston A British woman spent 17 hours in jail for reported receiving suspicious envelopes in the “controlling behavior” after she told her mail that turned out to be full of glitter. husband to do more chores. Daily Mail reports According to CNN, Massachusetts state police that Valerie Sanders, from Catterick, North and the FBI are investigating the envelopes, Yorkshire, was arrested last year when her which were sent to at least three of the parade husband Michael told job center staff that his organizers. The envelopes had no return home life was making him depressed during a addresses or any other indication of where routine welfare check. A staff member they came from. The three organizers are part reported the case to police, and Valerie was of a group called Super Happy Fun America, arrested at her home the next day on charges which recently applied for a permit from the of “controlling and coercive behavior.” The city of Boston to host a “Straight Pride Parade” law against this behavior is typically used to in August. The parade plan was initially protect victims of domestic abuse who are rejected, but organizers made a discrimination unable to escape controlling partners. complaint and city leaders reportedly According to reports, Valerie was accused of conceded. The event is now scheduled for ordering her husband, an amateur Aug. 31. A request to fly a “Straight Pride” bodybuilder, to spend less time at the gym and flag was denied by the city, however. Following more time cleaning up around the house. “I the arrival of the suspicious mail last week, told him to get a shower after the gym,” she parade organizer Samson Racioppi called told reporters. “I told him to clean the house. police and told them he’d received a heavily We had two dogs—it needed cleaning all the taped envelope and “heard stuff shaking time. He used to spend four hours cleaning around inside.” A hazmat team was sent to the his car—of course I complained.” Last week scene. The group’s vice president, Mark the case went to Teesside Crown Court, Sahady, received a similar envelope. He was where prosecutors offered no evidence against told by police that the envelope contained Mrs. Sanders. The court imposed a two-year glitter and a handwritten letter. The FBI is restraining order on Valerie. She told continuing to investigate the incident but does reporters she was happy about the decision not believe the envelopes pose a danger to the and wants nothing to do with Michael. public. Organizers say they were targeted because of the parade. Super Happy Fun Dateline: Iowa America President John Hugo said the parade An animal rehab center has received dozens is “not anti-gay but pro-straight.” of used bras after making an appeal on social media. According to KCRG in Iowa, the Dateline: Colorado Wildthunder Wildlife & Animal The City of Denver says it has a plan that will Rehabilitation & Sanctuary in Independence solve the “goose poop” problem and feed the put a call out last month on its Facebook homeless at the same time. The Denver Post page, asking for donations of used bra clasps reports that goose populations in Colorado to help injured turtles. The clasps are adhered have multiplied since the 1970s. An to a broken shell on either side of a fracture estimated 5,000 geese live year-round in and wire is weaved through the eyelets, Denver’s parks, and thousands more pass creating a stitch that helps to stabilize the through the city during migration periods. area so it can heal. Wildlife rescuers say it’s According to city leaders, each goose can the best method known for doing the job. produce a pound of feces a day, resulting in a Wildthunder’s Facebook post received messy and offensive problem. Many methods hundreds of thousands of shares, and have been employed in attempts to combat donations of used bras began to pour in from the issue, but none have been successful. all over the country. Employees told reporters Some of the birds have reportedly moved out that they’ve been receiving boxes filled with of parks and into surrounding neighborhoods. undergarments daily. There is reportedly only Recently, in a bid to counter the problem, city one injured turtle currently located at the officials and the USDA began supervising the shelter, and Wildthunder has been reaching roundup and killing of hundreds of geese at out to other facilities to see if they could use various parks. Authorities expect to to cull up the surplus. It plans to keep some of the to 2,200 geese by the end of the summer. The fasteners for future use. a birds’ carcasses will then be cooked and served Compiled by Joshua Lee. Email your weird news to to the city’s homeless population by an [email protected]. JULY 11-17, 2019 WEEKLY ALIBI [5] NEWS CITY BY JOSHUA LEE NEWS | COMMENTARY Public Safety Tax Spending Questioned A recent audit of Albuquerque’s public safety tax UNM Must Improve Its Record has raised concerns about appropriate spending practices. According to KRQE, the city’s Office of Internal University plagued by poor priorities and privilege Audit released a report near the end of June that examined how the city government has spent the BY AUGUST MARCH so-called quarter-cent tax. The tax has been in effect since 2004 and is meant to fund law enforcement efforts. In 2008, the Public Safety recent op-ed in the local daily uses a laserlike Tax Advisory Board was created by the City focus to call the university out for a Council to oversee how the tax money was spent, Acontinuing lack of diversity among the but auditors found that the board was never people who inhabit its hallowed halls.