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Here’s a story that has been rocketing around the web – a young Canadian folk singer was killed by coyotes while hiking in Nova Scotia:
Taylor Mitchell, 19, was attacked while she was hiking alone in Cape Breton Highlands Park, Nova Scotia, when she was attacked by two of the animals on Wednesday.
Nearby walkers heard her screams and alerted park rangers, who arrived on the scene and shot one of the animals. The other has yet to be found.
A police spokesperson said the two coyotes were “extremely aggressive” when rangers arrived on the scene.
“Coyotes are normally afraid of humans. This is a very irregular occurrence,” Bridgit Leger, a spokeswoman for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, told Reuters news agency.
Were the coyotes rabid?
In other less tragic news, another South Carolina Republican has been caught with his pants down. This one contains some interesting details:
Back on Monday, former Republican state representative and now assistant Attorney General Roland Corning was on his lunch break when a police officer found him parked his Ford Explorer at Elmwood Cemetery with an 18 year old stripper from the Platinum Plus Gentlemen’s Club, a bag of sex toys and at least one dose of Viagra.
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In happier days, Corning was an ardent pro-life politician best known for introducing a law in the South Carolina legislature that would have made the subdermal contraceptive device Norplant mandatory for women on welfare. Even then though he was no stranger to controversy. In 1994, during a floor debate with pro-choice state Rep. June Shissias, Corning asked Shissias whether she herself had ever had an abortion. Later he admitted the remark was “probably insensitive” but said he was “sick and tired of the women representatives in this body acting like, just because we’re men and male, we don’t know anything about women.”
Go read the whole thing to find out how Corning lost his employment over the incident.