• A papier-mache statue of a stegosaurus, placed outside the Cubic Building in a suburb of Barcelona, Spain, had an odorous secret, The Washington Post reported.
On May 22, a father and son who were admiring the statue noticed a foul stench coming from it and peered into a crack in the dinosaur's leg.
There they saw the body of a man. The 39-year-old was reported missing just hours before he was discovered; the local police said they don't suspect foul play.
Instead, they believe the man dropped his phone in the statue's leg and tried to retrieve it, becoming stuck headfirst.
He may have been in the statue for a couple of days, authorities said. [Washington Post, 5/25/2021]
• Staff at the El Paso Zoo in Texas are preparing to press charges against a woman who jumped into a spider monkey exhibit on May 22 and fed Flamin' Hot Cheetos to the animals, the El Paso Times reported.
Zookeepers found out about the stunt through Instagram, where someone posted video of the woman underneath a waterfall, with the monkeys just feet away.
"This young lady decided to hop a fence, climb through some bushes, drop down into a 4-feet-deep moat, walk across the moat and then try to feed the spider monkeys," zoo director Joe Montisano said.
"It was stupid. She's very fortunate that it didn't have a worse outcome for her or the animals."
While the woman hasn't been named, her employer, Lovett Law Firm, recognized her and she was fired from her job there. [El Paso Times, 5/25/2021]