Coin collector

The explanation for an Indian man’s abdominal pain came as soon as doctors at the Sanjay Gandhi Hospital in Satna, India, lowered a scope into the man and saw what was in his stomach. During the endoscopy, doctors found 15 pounds of foreign objects in Maksood Khan’s stomach including 263 coins, 3.3 pounds of nails, and other assorted material. According to a doctor who operated on the man, the objects had slightly perforated his stomach, but the patient is expected to make a full recovery.

Running scared

An uninvited guest entertained students at Enterprise Middle School in Enterprise, Miss., on Nov. 29, but she didn’t stay long. A deer reportedly ran inside the rural school as students arrived, became disoriented and scared, and tried to exit the building through windows before successfully racing out a door. Principal Marlon Brannan said the doe bloodied its nose by jumping up and hitting a window three times. He said the incident, which was captured on security cameras, was over quickly and no humans in the school were injured: “That deer was moving full-throttle.”

Mousing mission

Owing to the popularity of Palmerston the cat, the United Kingdom’s diplomatic corps has hired on two more “diplocats.” Palmerston, a black-and-white stray, became styled as the Chief Mouser of the Foreign & Commonwealth Office building in London in 2016. In October, British diplomats in Jordan announced that Palmerston had a new envoy in the Middle East—Lawrence of Abdoun, another black-and-white stray and now the chief mouser of the British Embassy in Amman. The British Consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, has also taken on an orphaned kitten for mousing duties.

A bad call?

A California couple may have a mess on their hands as a result of their company name. On Nov. 20, video game manufacturer Activision announced in a U.S. Patent and Trademark Office filing that it was contemplating opposing a trademark application made earlier this year on behalf of Albert and Leslie Ochoa of Murrieta, Calif. The husband-and-wife team operates a dog waste removal company called “Call of DooDee.” The pair filed for the trademark in June, but Activision, which publishes the Call of Duty game series, has until the end of December to object.

A tank of joe

London’s bus drivers have been powered by coffee, and now one of the city’s buses might be, too. Bio-bean, a technology firm in the United Kingdom, says it has produced enough biofuel from spent coffee waste to power a single London public transportation bus for a full year. The fuel, produced by blending oil derived from coffee grounds with diesel, is part of a city effort to introduce more biofuels into the tanks of city transport vehicles.

Left behind

Two decades after forgetting where he parked, a resident of Frankfurt, Germany, has finally found his car right where he left it. The man, now 76, reported the car missing in 1997 to police when he couldn’t find the car after leaving it in a parking lot outside an industrial building. After hearing nothing, the man assumed the car was lost permanently. But a construction crew preparing to demolish the building and lot this year reported the derelict vehicle to police. After checking through old records, police located the two-decade-old report. When the man and his daughter went to recover the car, it wouldn’t start.

Hitching a ride

A 40-pound wild bobcat trying to dart across a Virginia highway during the early morning hours of Nov. 23 received the ride of its life for the next hour. A motorist driving a Toyota Prius said she knew she hit an animal during her commute from Gloucester County to Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond. The driver arrived at the university and called animal control after discovering the bobcat, still alive, was lodged in her car’s grill after surviving the 50-mile commute. Rescue workers were able to safely remove the female bobcat, who amazingly only suffered a bit of minor scraping from the ordeal. Animal control officials plan to release the bobcat back into the wild.

Bread that is dead

Looking for bread that is high in protein? Try Finland, where Fazer, a bakery and food service company, is selling a new specialty bread made with flour ground from dried crickets. Each loaf of bread contains about 70 crickets in addition to wheat and seeds, and its arrival comes after several European countries legalized the raising and marketing of insects as food. Juhani Sibakov of Fazer Bakeries said the bread offers two benefits: “It offers consumers with a good protein source and also gives them an easy way to familiarize themselves with insect-based food.”

Playing with fire

A Port Huron, Mich., resident located a gas leak at his home, but the discovery was probably not worth the cost. Fire officials said the unnamed man lit a match to pinpoint the source of what he correctly identified as a natural gas leak. When the gas ignited, the resulting fire singed the man’s eyebrows and hair and burned for 90 minutes before the fire department extinguished it. Port Huron Battalion Chief Mark Ford told The Times Herald that homeowners shouldn’t look for gas leaks on their own—especially by lighting a match: “The best thing to do is call 911.”