Briefs

By Alexander Douglas |Staff Writer|

Glowing Camels

Camel owners have put glowing bands onto their camels to prevent car crashes at night, according to NBC News.

There are more than 6,000 camels roaming Southern Israel. The amount of accidents involving camels have proved to be deadly, these new glowing bands will help motorists spot the camels.

The glowing bands are an innovative, cheap and easy to use to save lives.

Eye eater

A teenager had to stay awake for a week, administering eye drops to prevent a parasite from burrowing into her eye.

Jessica Greaney had to have eye drops every ten minutes and only got a few minutes of sleep resulting in decreased immune efficiency, according The Telegraph.

Doctors say the parasite found its way into Greaney’s eye from her contact lens after tap water had splashed on them.

Bees Misbehaving/ Begone bees!/ belittling bees/ buzzing bees buzzed off

Forty thousand bees made their home under a backyard deck in a house in Queens, New York.

The beekeepers used an infrared camera mounted to a pole to find the bees living under the backyard deck.

The honey was dripping from the honeycomb and the extraction took more than two hours, according to NY Daily News.

Waco Texas Shooting

Nine people were left dead after a shooting in Waco, Texas.

The shooting started as a brawl in a restaurant and escaleted to a shooting in the parking lot. The altercation, is said to have been between biker gangs.

It is believed that all confirmed dead were part of the biker gangs. No police officers were reportedly injured, according to CNN.com.

Oil spill in Santa Barbara

Approximately 105,000 gallons of crude oil was spilled into the ocean and shorelines around Santa Barbara.

The spill occurred Tuesday, May 19, when two pump stations belonging to the Plains All American Company ruptured.

According to the Los Angeles Times, the cause of the rupture is still being determined.