In this video a family finds a hummingbird stuck in the second most littered item in the world, a wad of used chewing gum. The man carefully frees the struggling bird and his 3-year-old provides an adorable commentary.
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Outdoors | Nature
Couple Rescues Gluttonous Gopher Who Got Stuck In His Own Hole
While driving along the main road on Olkhon Island in Russia, a couple came across a fat prairie dog unable to free itself from its own hole. The couple pulled over and assisted the “gluttonous gopher” out of his hole.
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Motorcyclist Rear Ends Car, Front Flips Onto Moving Car’s Roof
In this incredible dash camera video from Mogilev, Belarus, a motorcyclist crashes full speed into the back of a car changing lanes. The motorcyclist was sent spinning in the air and miraculously landed safely, standing up, on the car’s roof.
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Vaseline Thwarts Determined Squirrel From Raiding Bird Feeder
Robert Krampf from Kanab, Utah recently caught a squirrel stealing pounds of seed from one the bird feeders in his garden. To keep the squirrel from stealing a copious amount of bird seed, Robert’s wife, Nancy, greased the feeder with Vaseline and it worked!
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Heroic Truck Driver Rescues Woman And One-Year-Old Infant From Explosive Crash
Last Monday, truck driver David Frederickson was driving along I-10 near Biloxi, Mississippi when he witnessed a car t-bone an 18-wheeler after attempting to merge. Upon pulling up to the fiery wreck, David quickly grabbed his fire extinguisher and ran to the vehicle to save the occupants inside. Miraculously, the driver of the car suffered only a broken leg and her one-year-old granddaughter escaped the accident uninjured.
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