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Bug spray used to fight off grandson

Jan 09 2010 SPRING HILL — A grandmother used a can of insect spray to defend herself from her 19-year-old grandson whom she said was trashing her bedroom as he searched for her cellphone.

A Hernando County sheriff’s report states that the woman was asleep around 4 a.m. Thursday when her grandson, Quinton Conaway, came in and said he wanted to use the cell phone to call a friend.
The 67-year-old woman told deputies that when she told Conaway he could not use the phone, he became irate and started throwing things around the bedroom as he looked for the phone.
She said she grabbed a can of insect spray to defend herself, and as Conaway struggled with her to get the can, it discharged insecticide.
The woman contacted deputies, who arrested Conaway on a felony charge of assaulting a person over age 65.

Not an urban legend. They do drop from trees when it's cold

Iguanas are a non-native species that many folks have been trying to eradicate. Here at Bizarre Florida, however, we think they're worth keeping around if only because they go dormant and drop from trees when the temp gets much below about 40 degrees. How...um, cool is that?

No, it's not some kind of urban legend. It's the actual moral truth, according to Ron Magill of Miami Metrozoo, who told WPLG, "It's almost like they go to sleep." But, he warned, the vast majority of them will survive nevertheless. "Generally speaking, he said, "if it warms up afterwards, they can recover,"

Which is why Magill issued a caveat to those who regard this as a perfect opportunity to do away with whole bunches of the invasive reptiles. "I knew of a gentleman who was collecting them off the street and throwing them in the back of his station wagon, and all of a sudden these things are coming alive, crawling on his back and almost caused a wreck."