Odd News Roundup: Olympics-Softball-Olympic softballers hunt roaming bear, no luck finding it so far; Australia man ties bedsheets together to escape 4th-floor hotel quarantine - police

Locked in for her Tokyo Olympics start on Thursday, Abbott must have missed headlines late Wednesday in which local authorities said security near Fukushima's softball venue saw a brown bear two consecutive mornings this week. Australia man ties bedsheets together to escape 4th floor hotel quarantine - police A man in the Australian city of Perth escaped mandatory quarantine in a hotel by scaling down a rope made of tied together bedsheets from a fourth-floor window, police said on Tuesday.

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Olympics-Softball-Olympic softballers hunt roaming bear, no luck finding it so far

U.S. softball pitcher Monica Abbott had one regret on a day she threw a dazzling shutout to beat Canada: She had no idea she was supposed to be on the lookout for a bear. Locked in for her Tokyo Olympics start on Thursday, Abbott must have missed headlines late Wednesday in which local authorities said security near Fukushima's softball venue saw a brown bear two consecutive mornings this week.

Australia man ties bedsheets together to escape 4th-floor hotel quarantine - police

A man in the Australian city of Perth escaped mandatory quarantine in a hotel by scaling down a rope made of tied-together bedsheets from a fourth-floor window, police said on Tuesday. After arriving in the West Coast city on an interstate flight from Brisbane, the man had his application for entry refused under the state's tough border entry rules intended to stop the virus from entering from elsewhere in the country.