Harmless Looking Bunny Gets The Jump On Worker
Johanna Julyan, owner of Boehm’s Chocolates and Flowers, suffered a facial cut and a bruise when a 25-pound chocolate bunny seemed to hop off a display shelf and attack her.
A store employee said the alleged assault was unprovoked.
Another possibility is that the 2-foot-tall confectionery rabbit simply toppled while Julyan was tidying up some shelves.
The bunny received a broken ear.
Never mind what the sign says: A colleague was trying to find out the exact location of a meeting scheduled to take place at Spokane’s City Hall. So she called the number for the City Hall information desk.
“Oh, I don’t have that information,” she was told. “This is just the information desk.”
Our colleague was then advised to call the city manager’s office.
Slice answer: Liberty Lake’s Bill Boaz said Jim and Barb Letson might have come closest to having a boat (45-foot Bayliner Bodega) that was bigger than their house.
Neatest sports equipment: Catchers mitt, badminton shuttlecock, lacrosse stick, discus, sand wedge and hockey gloves.
Lost and found: An Ephrata woman who didn’t want us to use her name told about finding a wedding ring inside a 2-pound block of cheese.
After the discovery, her family stopped eating the cheese.
Local resident whose name has appeared in the most out-of-town newspapers in the past few months: Social worker Lynn Everson.
Our three favorite “Good Paper” anagrams: 1. Pap Rod Ego. 2. Ad Per Pogo. 3. Grade Poop.
Knowing the market: A friend received a radio-station survey in the mail that misspelled Coeur d’Alene.
Matthew Monroe wonders: If he receives invitations to sign up for “platinum” credit cards, does that mean the super-rich receive offers to have “uranium” or “plutonium” cards?
There’s a reason they have weight divisions in boxing: Bike-rider Pat Palmer said cyclists who flip off people in cars probably don’t need to wear helmets because signs of brain damage are already evident.
Warm-up questions: In your experience, what music most reliably helped establish a romantic mood? How do you react to the Spokane tourism ads featuring the line, “Jump-start your soul”?
Today’s Slice question: Is there a North Idaho accent?