Their crews see Billy and head down the street on the lawn tractors and never come back,” said the frustrated neighbor. “Mark and Dawn even offered to host a neighborhood watch meeting in their house and I said, ‘Dude, you have a bear playing pool 10 feet away from where we’re supposed to sit. What if Billy sees us and thinks snack?’ ”

BERLIN, Germany- A tiger escaped its enclosure at Cologne Zoo in western Germany and killed a zoo keeper before being shot dead by the zoo's director, police said. The tiger slipped through an open gate and fatally attacked the 43-year-old keeper. "It appears the gate wasn't properly shut," the zoo director told the Associated Press. The Siberian tiger was a 4-year-old male called Altai that fathered three cubs previously but was currently having trouble mating with a new, diffident female arrival.

LONDON, England- Digby Latham worked for twelves years to make the UK mens waterpolo team and a bad case of pool lice undid his dreams just as they were being realized. "Just couldn't bloody take it... I had to give up my spot on the squad. The BBC said they couldn't have me live on air scratchy my junk but I couldn't stop it. Damn bloody buggers, pool lice ruined it for me," said the frustrated athlete.

GRAND RAPIDS, Minnesota- It is very tempting for humans to "humanize" wild animals and believe they mean no harm. But sometimes that thinking can lead to real trouble. Just ask Jonny Gomez who posed for a picture with a local moose, who then bit part of his ear off. "I thought it would make a great Facebook picture, me and a moose, cuz' the thing acted like it just wanted to poke its head in and hang out but once the shutter went it just chomps me. I'm like... really? Dude, you just ate my ear? Man, you suck."

YELLOWSTONE, Wyoming- Many Americans hit the road during the summer months and often they choose America's national parks as a destination. In tough economic times, the choice of how and where to spend your vacation is more and more a factor, too. Brenda and Bert Borchardt thought they had figured out how to maximize their vacation budget, except for one factor-bears! Once their five and six year olds saw bears inside their van there was no way their two kids would ever sleep inside again during this road trip vacation, and certainly not outside in a tent. "We splurged for a hotel for a few nights but then had to head for home. Damn bears ruined everything," said the disgruntled Brenda Borchardt.

OSLO, Norway- A Norwegian driver who swerved to avoid running into a moose hit a bear instead. From his hospital room, Rolf Oofdah, said "What are the odds of this? Moose comes out, I have to go this way to not hit it, and that way sends me right into a bear and then a tree. Strangest thing I have ever seen. What were those two doing out there?"

BANFF, Canada- A summer family reunion camping trip turned out to be a real adventure for the Mark Preublyski family of Calgary. The outdoorsy family has camped out, over many generations, at the same spot on the Clendennon River. And for decades there had never been any problems until this year when bears forced them to pitch their tents on the sheer wall of a rock face. "Thankfully some of the kids had brought rappelling gear so we just hitched up the tents and slept on the rock face, in safety. Damn bears wanted our beef jerky so bad they wouldn't leave us alone," said the family patriach.

FRANKFURT, Germany- Michael Hoffmann, assistant head of the Hochwildschutzpark Hunsrück said three kangaroos escaped overnight with the help of wild animals that live in the local woods. Hoffmann said two kangaroos got out of their enclosure after a young fox snuck into the park and dug a hole next to the Kangaroo cage's fencing. The third 'roo escaped the park through another hole dug by a wild boar. "We've got two of them; now we're looking for the third," Hoffman said. It has not been verified but citizens who live near the zoo reported seeing a fox riding on the back of a kangaroo, maybe even directing it on which way to hop. Police believe that report to be a prank but are patrolling the area, as a precaution.

MAJORCA, Spain- Speddio Gonzales, a Matador with the rank of El Jefe Grande, with 323 kills to his credit, suddenly abandoned his profession, in the middle of a performance. According to Gonzales, a bull named Dingos, convinced him that killing bulls was wrong. "Dingos spoke to me, with his eyes... I don't know how to say it, except... he wanted to be my friend and I said, 'yes'." Both Dingos and Gonzales have retired to his estate near Barcelona.

LITCHFIELD, Illinois- The pacu, a toothy fish native to the Amazon that can weigh up to 55 pounds, has been spotted in Lake Lou Yaeger in Illinois. Lake superintendent Jim Caldwell said pacus primarily eat nuts, aquatic vegetation and snails and pose no real threat to humans but residents of Papua New Guinea beg to differ. There, the pacu is known as the "ball cutter," because several fisherman have died from blood loss after something in the water had bitten off their testicles. Because pacus are native to the Amazon Basin, any in the Illinois lake are likely former aquarium pets but local resident Bob Weber said, "Why are we so sure of that? Why aren't they moving north? There's lots of unsuspecting testicles swimming in our lakes. Why wouldn't they come up here? That's just nature at work. I can tell you this. If I am swimming somewhere that is not a pool, I'll be wearing a cup."