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Animal control called to tame tiger in Grand Rapids. Turns out, it was just a stuffed tiger.

Animal control officers take calls about wild animals seriously. That’s why when officers were sent to a home on the southwest side of Grand Rapids for a report of a tiger in the area on Thursday, they quickly responded.

When the Kent County Animal Control Officers arrived, they saw what appeared to be a real tiger in someone’s backyard. They approached the animal and soon realized all wasn’t as it seemed from far away.

As the officers got closer, they were able to look through a side fence and quickly discovered the life-sized animal was actually stuffed!

The fear turned into fun and these officers enjoyed the laugh. They posted some photos for the public to see online and wrote, “No worries Grand Rapids, you are now safe from this wild animal.

Not enough sprinkles on ice cream leads to disturbance

It was a sticky situation for one gas station clerk in Mason County's Branch Township who apparently didn't add enough sprinkles to ice cream as part of a customer's order.

Mason County Sheriff's Office deputies were dispatched to a store in the 6100 block of East U.S. 10 in Branch Township when a clerk reported a disturbance inside the store.

Kim Cole, Mason County sheriff, said around 8:16 p.m. on Saturday, May 23, a woman, along with a male companion, came into the store and ordered ice cream.

When the ice cream was handed to the woman, the transaction took an unexpected turn, Cole said.

Waffle maker dispute leads to 30 kicked out of hotel

Two women fighting over the waffle maker in a Mason County hotel apparently ignited a major disruption over the holiday weekend inside the hotel's buffet-style breakfast area, police say.

A Mason County Sheriff's Office deputy stood by as 30 people were ordered by the property manager to pack their bags and leave the America's Best Value Inn, 5095 U.S. 10, in Pere Marquette Township.

Mason County Sheriff Kim Cole said it allegedly all started over the hotel's waffle maker around 9 a.m. on Sunday, May 24.

"It sounded like one lady walked up and asked the other lady if she was in line for the waffle maker. She didn't answer so this lady started to make her waffle. The other confronted her and said, 'That was my waffle' and the other lady said, 'No, it's mine' and then it went down hill from there," Cole said.

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Beer-drinking man wearing scuba gear causes disturbance at McDonald's restaurant (NOT Florida)

It wasn't the scuba gear he was wearing that got the McDonald's customer in hot water. Nor was it the beers he'd drank earlier.

It was the yelling.

Workers at the Front Street restaurant called police Tuesday, May 19, because he was hollering about something.

He soon left. Police tracked him down. He had been drinking but he wasn't drunk enough to be arrested. Police warned him that McDonald's management did not want him to return, Detective Sgt. James Bussell said.

Teacher donates kidney to student

Nadirah Muhammad doesn't like to be called a hero, but she's certainly a life-saver.

The physical education and health teacher at Detroit's West Side Academy donated a kidney late last year to one of her students, 18-year-old A'Ja Booth.

Booth returned to school today for the first time since the surgery, walking arm-in-arm with Muhammad down a red carpet in the gymnasium as fellow students threw sparkling confetti.

The ceremony celebrated both Booth's recovery and a remarkable gift.

Disney World to riders: No selfie sticks

People just don't seem to get it. Theme parks don't want you using selfie sticks on their rides.

So on Friday, Walt Disney World went a step further to make that point. It posted a "No Selfie Sticks" sign at the Magic Kingdom's Big Thunder Mountain Railroad.

Guests can bring selfie sticks on the rides but must securely store them, a Disney spokeswoman said Monday.

Disney policy forbids visitors from using the sticks, which can be used to extend cameras out for up to 3 feet, on its rides.

Cardinal Tagle, New Caritas chief, will be a force in Catholicism for years to come

Seen as the Catholic rock star of Asia because of his high media profile and wildly successful TV and internet broadcasts, Tagle on Thursday was elected president of Caritas Internationalis, a network 165 Catholic charitable organizations around the world based in Rome.

Building a “poor church for the poor” is the motto of the Francis era, and from his perch at Caritas, Tagle is now poised to become one of the most influential architects of that push after the pontiff himself.

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Serving as president of Caritas doesn’t mean Tagle will move to Rome, or abandon his position in Manila. It does mean, however, that he’ll often be asked to visit disaster zones or conflict areas, articulating a Catholic response. He’ll be more in demand on the lecture circuit, more sought after by the media, and generally will enjoy an ever higher degree of visibility.

Inside the Vatican, it means that Tagle will be more involved at the big-picture level in terms of fleshing out the pope’s broad social, political, and humanitarian agenda.