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2008-05-08 - 10:53 p.m. Strange Goings On Beaver in East River The beaver rescued from the East River did not make it through the night. Searching for possible anti-pope terrorist explosives along the stretch of river beside the UN, the Coast Guard spotted and rescued a female beaver having problems breathing and struggling to swim against the current. Beavers are fresh-water animals and so it was surmised that she lost her way down from her colony in the Bronx River. She was rushed to a clinic, given antibiotics, then taken to a specialist in Utica but did not survive the drive. Seal in Freeport LI yard A family on Long Island has a seal living in their yard - they have a small dock and the seal pulls itself up, suns itself, and then swims into the bay to feed and comes back, for nearly a month now. Seems more and more seals are seen off the LI coast in recent years. Red Potatoes Escape Two red potatoes decided to roll off the green wicker plate in my apt. kitchen and onto the floor. One was located, the second has never been found. Several days have passed. The search has been discontinued. A bath finally has been taken. We've had no water for two days as the old lead water pipes were slowly replaced by modern copper pipes. No water, no use of the bathroom, etc., etc. "You drink this water?" said the man replacing the hot and cold water risers. "Twenty five years," I said. "Very very bad! Lead is very bad!" he said. Well, it is what it is. Now, no more lead pipes. It's a good thing. Rats and Dept. of Health complaints A couple of us residents here made a field trip into the basement to find out how the Mex workers were living...no bathroom, a pick-axe had been taken to the floor and they were going in there, in a pit, and there was a real stink where there was a pool of urine beside the boiler...and there were all their open food containers and juice bottles - about 50 of them - strewn about the floor...they are eating where they're 'going' - and then coming upstairs and touching our railings and stuff...and I'd been watching rats jumping out of the basement into the yard...and there are major MAJOR waste-pipe leaks making rivers of water down there...my BF was here this weekend, and he commented that just opening the Dumb-Waiter door on the first floor, it smelled like a stable. I reported it to the Health Dept. and the next day when I went down all the food and bottles had been cleaned up. They still have no place to go except on the floor. It was pretty disgusting when I said a sad goodbye to my man and then opened the door to my apt to leave for work, and two of the Mex's were coming up from the basement zipping up their flys. I went right back into my apt and told my man, I'll wait until they are OUT of the hallway. OMG!