Driver Hits Something. Wisconsin Warden Pulls a Bobcat Out From Being Lodged in the Front Grill of a Car

Wisconsin authorities are called when a car hits a bobcat and it becomes lodged in the grill of a car. A game warden is called to the scene and they carefully pull the bobcat from under the vehicle. The bobcat is returned to mother nature.

a bobcat by Chandler Cruttenden on Unsplash

In Portage County, Wisconsin a Toyota car hits a bobcat and the bobcat becomes lodged inside the grill of the car. Authorities are called to the scene to extract the cat.

WSAW-TV 7 News reported that the driver called the dispatcher stating, "I have a bobcat in my car" on Tuesday, 18 April 2023.

The driver felt the vehicle strike something but didn't know what until getting out of the vehicle. That's when they noticed a bobcat stuck in the front grill of the car.

bobcat stuck in front car grill by Sheriff Mike Lukas

When Portage County Sheriff's Department arrived, they determined that they needed to get a game warden out there to assist with the situation. They called Conservation Warden Bryan Lockman to come and help out.

Portage County Sheriff's Office Posted on Facebook

The Portage County Sheriff's Office posted about the incident on Facebook.

On 19 April 2023, Sheriff Mike Lukas posted:

"Ok this is a first, dispatch gets a caller stating, "I have a bobcat in my car". You can only imagine what everyone was thinking at the time, so when they dispatched over the radio numerous deputies were curious. So, Deputies Selvey, Stanton and Ashbeck responded to the location to investigate. As you can imagine the shock they were in when low and behold there was a bobcat in the vehicle. My deputies are really good at solving problems but this one baffled them so we called in reinforcements with Conservation Warden Bryan Lockman. As you can see on the bodycam footage Warden Lockman was a pro at getting the critter out and in his truck and returned it to the wild.

All in a day’s work at the Portage County Sheriff’s Office and the Wisconsin DNR." (Source: Portage County Sheriff's Office)

With the Conservation warden on site, they came up with a plan and worked to get the bobcat out of the grill of the vehicle, and then released the bobcat "back to the area where it got stuck in the vehicle and released it."

photo by Portage County Sheriff's Office

Thankfully both the cat and the people were not harmed during this cat extraction.

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Sources

Poltrock, Heather and Dominique O'Neill. "Portage County deputies rescue trapped bobcat from vehicle on highway." WSAW-TV 7 News. 19 April 2023.

Sheriff Mike Lukas account on Facebook.

Wisconsin Dept. of Natural Resource official website.

A Seattle Woman Finds an Urn with a Blue Ribbon on it in Goodwill with a Name on the Bottom & Has Ashes Inside. She Buys it for $3.99

A woman shopping at Goodwill discovers an urn with a blue ribbon tied around it sold under the category of "wares." On the bottom of the urn, it has a name written on it. She opens it and sees ashes inside. She decides to buy it for $3.99 from Goodwill and was trying to locate the family connected to the ashes. Goodwill has retrieved the ashes from her and has also attempted to find out if these belong to a human.

Josie Chase with the urn she purchased

One Seattle, Washington woman that has discovered a love for "thrifting" found something unusual for sale at her local Goodwill, and now is unsure what to do with the item.

Seattle Woman Finds a Blue-Ribbon Urn in Goodwill

24-year-old Josie Chase was in her local Goodwill, and looking for something very interesting among the housewares. Yahoo! reported that Josie "has been collecting vintage clothing and accessories since 2018."

Josie came across a small urn with a blue ribbon tied around it, and she "immediately identified it as a cremation urn."

She said:

"It just kind of shocked me that there was an urn there," Chase said. "So I grabbed it and felt that it had some weight to it and looked at the bottom and saw that I had a name." -Josie Chase (Source: Yahoo!)

When she looked at the bottom of the urn, there is a sticker with the name, "Toby Cava." She assumes this is the name of the person that was cremated. The picture can be seen below.

Urn with name on bottom

Next Josie did what any curious person would do. She unscrewed it and looked inside, and sure enough, found ashes. She assumes these are human ashes.

She said:

"Then, I unscrewed it and saw that there were ashes inside," Chase said. "It was just kind of shocking and struck me and I thought, ‘Who would donate this? This is sad. It must have been a mistake or someone must have misplaced it.’ So, I thought maybe I could find someone who it was connected to [and] give it back." -Josie Chase (Source: Yahoo!)

The picture of the ashes in the urn can be seen below.

Urn with ashes inside

Josie tried to speak to a Goodwill worker about the urn, but since the store was busy, it was difficult. So she decided to buy it for $3.99. The Goodwill price tag labeled it as "wares."

She said:

"I just put it in our cart and me and my partner were like, ‘Well, if we don't get it, this will maybe go to the landfill or something.' We thought we should do it service and spread the ashes somewhere nice or try to find at least a good home for it. So, we decided to buy it," -Josie Chase (Source: Yahoo!)

Josie Chase Posts a TikTok Video About the Urn

Josie posts a TikTok video showing the urn inside of Goodwill in Washington and shows the urn being opened to reveal ashes.

In captions, text in the video reads, "Who donated this person to Goodwill?"

Then the TikTok video shows the urn wrapped in brown paper and the caption reads, "The cashier wrapped him up so nicely." See the picture below.

Urn wrapped in a brown paper

The video ends by saying in captions, "Toby was only $4."

Watch the TikTok video and see for yourself. It has been viewed over 13 million times.

It isn't every day that a person finds an urn filled with ashes at Goodwill, but it does happen.

One person that commented on the TikTok video said:

"The people could have dumped the ashes while driving down the highway and it would have been more respectful than dropping them at goodwill." -User7477347178750 on TikTok

Josie replied to the comment, by saying, "Agreed."

Goodwill workers should probably look inside things while they are pricing the items in the back, just to make sure there aren't any ashes inside.

Josie now believes that it could be pet ashes based on feedback she has received on her TikTok video.

Evergreen Goodwill of Northwest Washington Retrieved the Urn with Ashes

Fox News Digital reported that Evergreen Goodwill of Northwest Washington contacted Josie and retrieved the urn with ashes, and also commented that they believe it was an animal's ashes, and not humans, and that the urn should have never made it out onto the sales floor.

Evergreen Goodwill has also reached out to funeral homes in case these ashes might be human.

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Sources

Josie Chase on TikTok: @chasejosie. Video about urn bought in Goodwill.

Eichenberg, Gretchen. "Washington woman makes 'shocking' discovery after purchasing $3.99 urn at Goodwill." Yahoo! / Fox News Digital. 14 April 2023.

Uber Deducted $71 From a Cincinnati Uber Eats Driver Due to a 'Technical Glitch' & He Would Like More Transparency

On Friday, 31 March 2023, an Uber Eats driver worked in Cincinnati during thunderstorms and earned an average of $12 per delivery from a total of $180. He paid some bills that night from the needed income. Uber Eats then informed him that there was a "technical glitch" that night and that they would deduct about $71 from his account due to their error. He would like more transparency with their payment system.

Uber Eats app

Uber Eats giveth, and Uber Eats taketh away.

Cincinnati Uber Eats Delivery Driver Hit with a 'Glitch Notice'

Local 12 News reported that David Rohdenburg received $180 in earnings (for 15 deliveries) into his account for his deliveries on Friday, 31 March 2023. It averaged $12 per delivery. However, David did not know Uber Eats would later take $71 back from him, reducing his earnings to about $7 per delivery.

He supports a wife and three children and has bills to pay. In fact, he paid some of those bills on Friday night while doing deliveries, as he was earning money from Uber Eats. After all, he counted on the money to be his.

Unfortunately for him, Uber Eats can withdraw money back from his account if they believe they made an error and did just that.

David Receives a 'Notice of Adjustment' from Uber Eats

Uber Eats sent David a notice that read:

"An incorrect payment was made to your account. Due to a technical issue, you received duplicate earnings for certain trips between 03/31-04/02. To correct this erroneous overpayment, we will adjust (-)$71.09 paid or payable to you for the affected trip(s). Your tips are not affected. We apologize for the inconvenience this has caused."

Uber Eats statement

After the notice to David, an Uber spokesperson also gave a statement to Local 12 News.

It reads:

"For several hours on March 31st, Uber experienced a technical issue that resulted in couriers being paid double the fare shown for each delivery trip. In all cases, couriers were paid the full amount they were shown before accepting a trip. We apologize for the error and are working to prevent this from happening again." -Uber Spokesperson (Source: Local 12 News)

This would be an inconvenience to most people trying to earn a living as an Uber driver.

David told Local 12 News:

"I don't think they realize how this affects people," Rohdenburg said. "Many people, like my wife and I, have three kids, you know, we have bills, and because we get that money immediately it goes to bills." -David Rohdenburg, Uber Eats driver (Source: Local 12 News)

The biggest issue is that David would like Uber Eats to itemize the earnings offered to a driver for each delivery, so drivers could recognize if they are being paid anything other than the normal rate.

To make matters worse, Uber Eats removed another $13 from David's account and had not given him an explanation for this new account adjustment at the publication date.

Will this continue to happen?

Final Thoughts

Among the food delivery companies, Uber Eats averages $20 an hour, Door Dash averages between $18 to $24 an hour, and Grubhub averages $14 an hour.

Do you think it's okay if a food delivery company pays a driver, and then takes some of that money back?

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Sources

Arsenault, Cassy. "Uber Eats deducts money out of local driver's account, citing technical issue." Local 12 News. 6 April 2023.

Uber Eats official website.