New York Post, Sunday, October 25, 2020
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Hungry polar bears in Siberia
have prompted locals to create an
emergency patrol to look out for
the beasts.
Last year, 56 polar bears made
their way to a town in the Chu-
kotka region of Russia, forcing
the creation of an emergency
bear patrol and the cancellation
of public events. Melting sea ice
is forcing the animals south to
scavenge for food near human
settlements.A scroll by Chinese artist Wu
Bin sold Sunday for $76.6 million
at an auction in Beijing.
The price of the black and
white ‘‘Ten Views of a Fantastic
Rock’’ was a record for an ancient
Chinese painting.Farmers in Cambodia are trying
a novel approach to warding off
the coronavirus: scarecrows.
The pop up creations are
known as “Ting Mong” in the na-
tive Khmer language and are tra-
ditionally used to protect against
illness such as Dengue Fever.
“It is our ancient superstition to
set up Ting Mongs when there
are dangerous diseases or to
avert evil,” said farmer Sok
Chany.Residents in the Japanese town
of Takikawa are using a robotic
wolf with glowing red eyes to
scare away bears.
Although bears are a symbol of
the region, while foraging for
food in advance of hibernation,
they have been known to attack
humans. The robot wolf, created
by a Hokkaido machine parts
company, has an infrared sensor,
which when tripped, causes the
animal to howl and its head to
swivel.Now this is a scary scene just
in time for Halloween: Mutant
crayfish which clone them-
selves and travel across land at
night have invaded a cemetery
in Belgium.
The crustaceans, which can dig
more than three feet into the
ground and are banned in the Eu-
ropean Union, were apparently
released by someone who owned
one as a pet.
“It’s impossible to round up all
of them. It’s like trying to empty
the ocean with a thimble,” one re-
searcher said. Jon Levine, WiresNews
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OF THENow this is a scary scene justHungry polar bears in SiberiaResidents in the Japanese townscroll by Chinese artist WuFarmers in Cambodia are tryingother commenter seethed. “You’ll
have enclosed spaces (poor venti-
lation), people in costumes
(masks?), people screaming in fun
and fear (exhaling oxygen, spit-
ting saliva, etc.)... therefore
there’s the potential for this to be
a [COVID] petri dish (super
spreader location). Who made
this decision and when are they
getting fired?”
Blood Manor, which has drawnire from neighbors since it moved
to the 5,000-square-foot venue in
2017 over concerns about noise
and other antics from people par-
tying, was allowed to reopen for
its annual Halloween stint, de-
spite a statewide ban on gather-
ings of more than 50 people.
“OK, this is just ridiculous.
While the rest of us wonder
whether our kids will be able to
attend school next week and localHappy Hallo-woof!
A pug dressed up for Halloween as a
bunch of grapes was one of hundreds of
aww-worthy submissions to the Tompkins
Square Park Halloween Dog Parade’s an-
nual costume contest, held virtually Satur-
day with entrants from as far away as Ca-
nada and California.
Surrounded by all the faux fixings for a
delightful afternoon at the park, 2-year-old
Betsey looks as cute as can be wearing a
cap and suit made of felt grapes while sit-
ting perched inside a wicker basket. Her
owner, Lisa Kerner of Plainville, Mass.,
aptly titled the submission “Feeling
GRAPE.”
Other adorable pups were decked out like
a meat-and-cheese plate, an “emotional
suppawt” dog and a Leprechaun.
The winners of the 30th annual contest
will be selected this week by parade orga-
nizers with the Tompkins Square Dog Run.
Sara DornOh, grape! Oh, grape! Oh, grape!
H’ween pug H’ween pug H’ween pug
dressed to
the K-9s
Tribeca COV fears
By SARA DORNLarge crowds outside the city’s
famed Blood Manor haunted
house are spooking Tribecans
over coronavirus concerns.
“We walked by there on Satur-
day evening and it was a mess...
Aside from the noncompliant
mask wearers, there were tons of
people on the sidewalk drinking
and getting high. We seriously
don’t even want to leave our
apartment any more,” one resi-
dent lamented on the Tribeca Cit-
izen blog, which posted a photo
taken Oct. 17 showing a tightly
packed line of patrons outside the
Broadway venue.
“This is so crazy. A haunted
house during a pandemic?!?” an-restaurants sweat whether their
tables are 6 feet apart... the city
is permitting Blood Manor to run
a pop-up haunted house on
Broadway, attracting hordes of the
maskless,” the Tribeca Citizen
wrote Monday.
Blood Manor’s founder later de-
fended it in the Citizen.
The 275-person venue only al-
lows 60 patrons and 30 actors in at
a time and follows a slew of other
safety precautions, including sup-
plying all actors with N95 masks
worn under their costumes, Jim
Lorenzo explained.
Lorenzo, who did not return a
call from The Post, said in the Cit-
izen that his son died of cancer in
August, so he is “hypersensitive to
COVID.”Critics boo opening
of ‘haunted house’