JEFERSON CITY, Mo.?? Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon signed legislation Friday repealing a contentious law that had limited online chats between teachers and students and caused a judge to warn that it infringed on free-speech rights.
Nixon's action eliminates a law enacted earlier this year that barred teachers from using websites that allow "exclusive access" with students or former pupils age 18 or younger. The law generated an unexpected backlash, with teachers raising concerns they would be barred from using popular social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter that allow private messages.
A judge temporarily blocked the law shortly before it was to take effect in August, declaring that it "would have a chilling effect" on free-speech rights guaranteed under the U.S. Constitution. Nixon then added the law's repeal to the agenda for the special session that began in September.
Legislators, who had voted overwhelmingly for the law this spring as part of a broader crackdown on teacher abuse of students, voted overwhelmingly this fall to repeal the restrictions.
But the most recent bill they sent to the governor also requires school districts to develop their own policies by March 1 on the use of electronic media between employees and students in order to prevent improper communications.
Nixon said he signed the legislation with some hesitancy. The governor said school districts may find it challenging to develop policies that prevent improper communications without also preventing appropriation online conversations.
"This bill is not as good as it should be, but to veto it would return us to a bill that would be far worse," Nixon said in a written statement announcing his decision.
The Missouri State Teachers Association, which filed suit against the original law, said Friday that it would decide within the coming weeks whether to drop the case. The judge's preliminary injunction against the original law was to remain in effect until Feb. 20 so that a hearing could be held on a permanent injunction.
Missouri's main teacher and administrator groups supported the repeal. But the American Civil Liberties Union had encouraged Nixon to veto the new bill, because of its directive for local schools to develop their own policies.
"We think the current legislation just passes the buck to the various school boards and doesn't really solve the problem," said John Chasnoff, program director for the ACLU of Eastern Missouri
The legislation passed during the special session was necessary to repeal "a law that was overreaching," said Todd Fuller, a spokesman for the Missouri State Teachers Association. But the group now plans to monitor the policies enacted by Missouri's 523 public school districts.
The concern is "there will still be districts out there that say you can't use Facebook no matter what, or you can't use this type of social media regardless of whether you're using it in the classroom or outside the classroom," Fuller said.
Although the potential effect on Facebook users garnered the headlines, some teachers said Missouri's original law also could have had other unintended consequences.
For example, one teacher feared the law could have prevented her class from communicating with students in Australia through a closed website. Others raised concerns about the law's effect on editing software for school yearbooks or on virtual classrooms, in which students communicate with direct messages
The original limits on Internet communications spurred virtually no discussion at the Capitol when they were included in a broader education bill passed earlier this year.
One of main provisions of that bill requires schools to share information with other districts about teachers who have sexually abused students and allows lawsuits in cases where districts fail to disclose such information and teachers later abuse someone else. That portion of the law was not challenged in court and was not repealed.
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My Eldar Howling Banshees behind a barricade I made from Stimudents and popsicle sticks
In the early aughts, I ran a popular and well-regarded tabletop wargame modeling and converting site called 40K Konversions. It was dedicated to all forms of modeling related to the Warhammer 40,000 universe. For those who don?t know, ?conversions? are wargame miniatures that have been altered in some way, from swapping legs or heads to creating whole new figures by parts swapping, sculpting on new features, and so on. Unfortunately, my site is no longer accessible. I went through my articles from the site and have put together some of the best tips and tricks that I published. Some are specific to sci-fi/40K gaming, others can apply to many forms of modeling. Feel free to add your own tips in comments. I?ll be moving this over to Make: Projects at the end of the month and will be folding in your tips and suggestions. -Gareth
Vehicle Parts
LEGO, old Robotix and other building system parts can be had for cheap at yard sales, thrift, and discount stores. Some pieces from these sets (especially Robotix) made great parts for Warhammer vehicles, buildings, and terrain.
Cockpit Controls and Industrial Parts
How to scratch-build vehicle safety belts
Cloth Seat Covers and Safety Belts
Cloth first aid strips make very realistic seat covers and safety belts. Just use sizes greater than the coverage you need and cut to size. The cloth material responds to paint surprisingly well too. Masking tape works great, too. A with some fuse wire, tweezers, and lots of patience, you can make buckles, too.
The infamous blue/yellow two-part epoxy putty, aka ?green stuff.? A Games Workshop sculptor once described working in this medium as akin to sculpting in stale bubblegum.
Adding Armor
Don?t spend several bucks a plate for extra vehicle armor. You can easily make your own by cutting thin pieces of styrene sheeting to size. Or even card stock. Simulate weld lines around the plating with Green Stuff or auto body filler.
Here?s a nice video build of a looted Ork tank for 40K using a 1/35th scale M3 Grant WWII tank model
Sanding Gun Barrels
Don?t sand the seam of a plastic gun barrel with a flat piece of sandpaper, it?ll leave flat spots, or an uneven sand. Make a tube out of sandpaper and twist and turn the barrel inside of it.
Realistic Gun Barrels
Always drill out your gun barrels using a pin vise. It adds so much realism. For guns that have side port holes, drill these out first.
Reshaping Hands
Creating Fur
Apply static grass to your model with white glue. When dry, apply a coat of spray matte vanish. Trim grass if necessary. THEN prime and paint to desired colors.
A very handsome urban base, created with kitty litter, chunks of plastic, and some screen material
Basing Models
If you want your models to be truly unique, try basing them with real rocks! We got this tip from Benjamin Durbin of BatReps. He writes: ?I buy slate from a hardware store, at about 3 bucks for a 50 lb bag? I?m sure it?s meant to be used in flower gardens or something. I don?t recall the last time I bought something at the hardware store that wasn?t 40K related. I use vice grips to break down the slate chunks into roughly 40k sized bases.?
Ben is also fond of basing some of his models in plain ol? American sand. He writes: ?It?s irregular (big grains, little grains, light grains, dark grains) so it looks great ?right out of the box.? You don?t have to paint it. You don?t even have to pre-paint the base. Just put glue everywhere and dunk it into sand. And the best part is, sand is available in large quantities, for free, at your local playground. (Please do not approach the children.)?
It?s amazing to us how many people follow the GW party line and base their models in golf course green (a.k.a. Goblin Green). We don?t think it looks natural. Mixing different shades of green flocking (you can get other shades at the hobby store) and a few pieces of railroad ballast will make a much more natural-looking base.
For urban basing, you can make bricks and rubble out of Green Stuff, styrofoam, bitz, etc. You can also buy ready-made 1/35th-scale WWII rubble in some hobby stores.
If you?re basing Necromunda models, for Emperor?s sake, don?t use grass! Use an urban motif. Sand glued onto the bases and then glue applied over the sand (to seal it) makes a durable base. Paint black and then drybrush in grays, black and other dark colors to represent the ash-laden, muck and rubble-covered floor of the underhive.
You can even use hobby ballast to represent grass. Mix fine-grain ballast with hobby sand (or fine sand from your yard). Underglue and overglue for durability. Prime black or dark green and then drybrush in different lighter shades of green to represent grass. You end up with a very durable base, which from a distance, looks like grass.
For another deathworld look, cover the base with a mixture of model train coal and iron ore (available at hobby stores) and ballast (ditto).
Use a combination of the techniques above (sand basing, hobby ballast, rubble) and combine with some static grass (sold through Games Workshop or hobby stores).
Gluing

Painting Tips
Tool Tips
The art of the sprue
Sprues
The building to the right was built from the think styro material that some models where shipped in. The base is made from the FedEx box. The ?stink pipe? chimney is made from a soda straw. A large impact crater can just be seen behind the building. It was made with blue insulation board (as was the gaming table). The street lights are from a scrounged model railroad kit. The top barrels on the barricade are desiccant canisters that come in some medicine bottles.
Buildings
You can make nearly every structure imaginable with little more than styrofoam packing material, shipping box cardboard, cereal boxes, and various cans, bottles, and food trays rescued from your garbage. Develop a terrain maker?s eye and you?ll be amazed at what you?ll see in everyday junk.
Look at the shapes of styrofoam or paper-based packing pieces used to secure electronics equipment (and other products) in their shipping cartons. Some of these pieces are ready-made buildings, just flip ?em over, paint (with acrylics only), and detail. We?re making a factory complex out of the four styro pieces that secured the speakers for our bookshelf stereo system. You couldn?t find a more perfect futuristic-looking industrial building shape. Some spent ink jet printer cartridges will serve as the power generators for the complex.
Pipes and Wires
Water, Gas, Oil, etc. Storage Tanks
Towers, Masts, Gangways, etc.
Industrial Deck Plates
Safety deck plating gives everything that essential industrial look, and it couldn?t be easier to make. For the floor/deck base, you can use plasticard, cardboard, balsa, whatever you want. Cut metal screen material (ideally the diamond-shaped kind) to deck size. (We got a pack of sculpture modeling screen for a few bucks in a craft store. It?s perfect.) Spread a film of glue on the base and glue down the screen material. Now, using very thin card stock (thin food packaging and FedEx Letter envelopes work great), cut out a frame that will go around the edges of the deck. Glue this on. When everything is dry, prime in black and drybrush in Boltgun. Voila. Very convincing industrial decking.
Corrugated Metal Siding and Roofing
Thin corrugated cardboard makes perfect metal siding and roofing when properly painted. You need the cardboard that has the corrugations exposed. You can sometimes get this in shipping material (we got a lifetime supply of it with some furniture we bought), but you can also get it in craft stores. Make sure to get the thin board with the small corrugation for proper scale.
Industrial Garage Doors
You can make very convincing roll-up garage doors with corrugated cardboard. Orient the card so that the corrugations are horizontal. Make a U-shaped frame for the two sides and the top with card (or plasticard). Add a handle (made with stretched sprue), drybrush in metallic colors and you?re done.
Metal Fencing and Window Covering
We wait each Christmas for clementines to come into season, not only because they?re really good, but because the plastic mesh material that covers the little crates is perfect for making metal 40K fencing. Just prime black, db Boltgun, wash in Chestnut ink, mount onto some plastic H-beam, base, and you have a great looking fence terrain piece. You can also use this material to make metal mesh-covered windows.
Steel-Reinforced Windows
Cut rectangular pieces of screening material (either diamond-shaped or square screen look good) so that they completely cover the windows you want to ?reinforce.? Make sure there?s enough around the edges for gluing. Prime the screen black and db with Boltgun Metal. Glue the screening in place inside the building. If you want, you can back the screening with black-painted card (or black construction paper), so that one can?t see inside the building (assuming you won?t be detailing the interior.
Sandbags
Very nice sandbags can be made with Green Stuff. Roll out a ?snake? of Green Stuff about the thickness of your pinky finger. Slice off a section about 1/2? long and shape it into a sandbag. Now, use a piece of bandage gauze to lightly press some texture into the bag?s surface. Using a scribing tool or the tip of a hobby knife, scribe a seam around the edges of the bag. You?re done. If you want a sandbag emplacement, gently press the bags into each other into stacks before they dry. For added realism, when they are dry, drill tiny holes into a few bags and white glue some sand running out of the holes and below the bag on the base.
Spent Shell Casings
Tooth picks, pot sticks, dowels cut to appropriate length and painted with appropriate color (Burnished Gold, Brazen Brass, etc.) make convincing casings. A small black line can be painted towards one end to simulate the typical grooves found in shell casings. Who cares if Bolters use caseless ammo? Spent shells are just too cool to pass up.
Battle Damage
Rivets
Barbed Wire
Concrete
Marble
If you want to create fancy looking stone, you can use the same technique used for faux-marbling in the macro world. Paint your surface in Skull White then use a small crumpled up rag to dab into a light gray (or blue) paint. Dab this onto paper to get most of it off and then dab onto your ?stone,? covering a lot of it, while letting the base color show through. Next, do the same with a much lighter gray (or blue) and less coverage (keep that rag crumpley!). When done, you can even use a small bird feather or detailing brush to add dark gray, dark blue and or black veins. A few white or light blue veins will add some depth. If done right, this creates convincing marble worthy of the Emperor?s Palace.
Here?s a basic how-to on easy, effective blast crater construction
Craters
Make model trees with Steve Delaney
Trees
Ladders
Hills
Rocks, Stone, Gravel
Mud Spatter
You can produce very realistic mud spatter on troops, vehicles and buildings using a mixture of white glue, flour, blown paint and a bit of water (just enough to keep it workable). When you have your mixture, load it onto an old toothbrush and then fan the bristles in the direction of the model (along the bottom of the tracks on a tank, for instance).
Flock
Sawdust makes great terrain flock. You don?t need to paint it beforehand. Just get fine sawdust, glue onto terrain piece and then paint in different shades of green (Dark Angels Green, Goblin Green, etc.). It works best if you spray the colors on.
Tall Grass

Tank stowage made from rolled up Kleenex and white glue
Rolled Tarps, Tents, Bed rolls, etc.
The post card for my now-deceased (sniff, sniff) 40K modeling site. I used to give this out at cons.
Source: http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2011/10/skill-builder-tabletop-gaming-modeling-tips-and-tricks.html
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Chrome/Firefox: Previously mentioned Gmail scheduling tool Boomerang updated this week and now includes the ability to add notes to your messages so you can remind yourself why you delayed them or set them to return on a specific date, and recurring messages that you compose once and will reappear regularly without having to send them again.
Also in the update is a new smart menu of boomerang settings that puts the message schedules you most often use at the top. If you're most likely to set a message to return in a week, or delay sending a message for a few hours, you'll see those options first instead of having to scroll to find the right time. The new reminders tool lets you add notes to your scheduled messages so you can remind yourself why you delayed it in the first place, or why you chose the schedule you chose. Finally, recurring messages lets you send a note once about a regular task or responsibility and get reminders each time you need to remember it.
Boomerang is still a freemium service, and the recurring messages are only available to Pro users ($15/month.) The new notes feature is available to both Pro users and Personal accounts ($4.99/month,) and the smart menu will be available to everyone, including free accounts. Do you use Boomerang to manage your Gmail account? Will this update make you hop back on-board if you left? Share your thoughts in the comments below.
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This photo released by A-Film, Amsterdam, Netherlands, on Thursday, Oct. 20, 2011, shows Rutger Hauer as Freddy Heineken in the Dutch-language movie "The Heineken Kidnapping." One of the Netherlands' best-known convicted gangsters, Willem "The Nose" Holleeder, has gone to court to stop the release of a film about the 1983 kidnapping and ransom of beer tycoon Freddy Heineken, claiming it may damage his image. Producers argued the movie is not a documentary and halting it now would be ruinous. (AP Photo/A-Film/Pief Weyman)
This photo released by A-Film, Amsterdam, Netherlands, on Thursday, Oct. 20, 2011, shows Rutger Hauer as Freddy Heineken in the Dutch-language movie "The Heineken Kidnapping." One of the Netherlands' best-known convicted gangsters, Willem "The Nose" Holleeder, has gone to court to stop the release of a film about the 1983 kidnapping and ransom of beer tycoon Freddy Heineken, claiming it may damage his image. Producers argued the movie is not a documentary and halting it now would be ruinous. (AP Photo/A-Film/Pief Weyman)
AMSTERDAM (AP) ? A Dutch court Friday rejected a suit brought by one of the Netherlands' best-known gangsters seeking to block the release of a film about the 1983 kidnapping of beer tycoon Freddy Heineken.
Willem Holleeder, dubbed "The Nose" in the Dutch media, was sentenced to 11 years in prison for his role in kidnapping Heineken and his chauffeur and holding them captive in soundproof cells in an Amsterdam warehouse for three weeks until his family paid a $36 million ransom.
Though all four kidnappers were eventually caught, about 20 percent of the money was never recovered.
Holleeder's lawyers claimed the movie "The Heineken Kidnapping," starring Rutger Hauer as the victim, would damage Holleeder's image by making him appear more sadistic than he really is.
In a summary ruling, judge Wil Tonkens of the Amsterdam District Court rejected the suit without comment and said she will publish her reasoning Oct. 28.
Lawyers for producers IDTV Film had argued the movie is a fictionalized version of events.
Holleeder, now 53, is not named in the movie, and filmmakers said they merged his character with that of another of the four real-life kidnappers ? although one of the actors resembles Holleeder physically, including the prominent nose that is the source of his nickname.
The defense lawyers also argued Holleeder has little reputation left to lose.
He launched the suit from his cell in a high-security prison where he is serving a new nine-year sentence on unrelated extortion charges. One of his victims was real estate magnate Willem Endstra, who had given a statement to police about a shakedown by Holleeder. Endstra's subsequent murder in 2003 has not been solved.
IDTV lawyer Jens van den Brink said halting the ?4.7 million ($6.4 million) production just days before its Oct. 24 release would have been financially ruinous.
Heineken's family also declined to cooperate with the filmmakers. He had inherited a small family concern and built it into the world's third-largest brewer. After the kidnapping, Heineken became more reclusive and was believed to be the Netherlands' richest man, worth $3.6 billion when he died of pneumonia in 2002.
The two other living kidnappers have also said they don't want the film to go forward. The fourth, Cor van Hout, was slain in an unsolved gangland killing in 2003.
An American film based on the Heineken kidnapping also is under negotiation with a different production company.
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The NBA lockout is affecting thousands -- and not just disappointed sports fans.
It could be said that the real victims of the lockout are the game night workers who rely on basketball for their weekly paychecks -- ushers, janitors, food concession workers and others. The New York Times reports an estimated 11 percent of the NBA's work force has been laid off since the start of the labor dispute.
In Orlando, Florida, the Community Food & Outreach Center is anticipating a surge in needy families in upcoming weeks and is reaching out to the community for donations of food and money, reports the Orlando Sentinel.
Scott George, co-founder of the Communiity Food & Outreach Center, estimates that 1,000 families in Orlando alone are losing their jobs due to the cancellation of the beginning of the NBA season. "This is an additional several hundred families a week that will be added onto our caseloads," George told the Orlando Sentinel."
The lockout drags on, with continued negotiations between NBA players and owners. Bloomberg reports a mediation session this week lasted into the early morning hours.
The lockout enters its 114th day Friday.
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ZANESVILLE, Ohio?? Gov. John Kasich on Friday signed an executive order cracking down on dangerous exotic pets, just days after an animal collector set dozens free and committed suicide.
The order does not ban sale or ownership of wild animals, but allows authorities to use existing legal authority ? including arrest powers available to county humane society officers ? to deal with exotic animal issues, according to The Columbus Dispatch.
Wild-animal auctions will be restricted and unauthorized auctions will be shut down.
Kasich had let an order from the previous administration banning the sale and purchase of exotic animals expire this spring, arguing it "had no teeth" and would have been impossible to enforce.
A stakeholders' group has been working to draft permanent legislation on the issue.
Federal documents show the owner of dozens of wild animals who freed them before killing himself was an avid gun collector who had traded weapons for a monkey, a leopard and a tiger cub.
Terry Thompson built his collection of exotic animals by swapping guns, sheltering animals no longer wanted by their owners and buying others at auctions, according to public records released Friday and interviews with those who knew him.
"Once you have an exotic animal, you're somewhat tagged as someone who will take unwanted or abandoned animals. And that's how it grew," Thompson said, according to a deposition that was part of the government's attempt to seize 133 weapons from him.
No one knows for sure why Thompson freed 56 animals including lions, tigers and bears on Tuesday and then committed suicide, triggering a big-game hunt in the Ohio countryside as police officers shot and killed 48 of them for fear they would harm humans. A 49th animal was killed by one of the big cats. The remaining animals were captured and taken to the Columbus Zoo.
The frightening situation put a spotlight on the lack of oversight on exotic pets in some states. Ohio has some of the nation's weakest restrictions.
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Deputies killed 18 rare Bengal tigers, 17 lions and eight bears in a hunt across eastern Ohio that has been criticized by some who say the animals should have been saved. The officers were ordered to kill the animals instead of trying to bring them down with tranquilizers for fear that those hit with darts would escape in the darkness before they dropped and would later regain consciousness.
Over the years, neighbors complained about a lion running loose and regularly called the sheriff about Thompson's horses roaming away from the property where the wild animals were kept.
Thompson, 62, had his share of troubles in the last year. He owed thousands of dollars in unpaid taxes, had marital problems and just returned home only a few weeks ago after spending a year in federal prison for possessing unregistered weapons.
A week before Thompson killed himself, a sheriff's deputy visited his farm because a neighbor complained about his horses getting out again.
Thompson promised he'd check the fences and admitted he was struggling to take care of all the animals, authorities said.
"Terry stated to me that he had just recently got home out of prison and he has not had very good control over any of his animals since he had been locked up," the deputy wrote in a report released Friday.
Thompson's estranged sister said he likely was overwhelmed financially when he committed suicide.
"I can just see him standing on that hill looking at every animal, thinking, 'How am I going to do this?'" Polly Thompson told The Associated Press. "And I'm sure he thought, 'Nobody wants me.'"
Terry Thompson got by financially on proceeds from a motorcycle business he sold, sales of horse trailers and other equipment and a small family inheritance. He also was a pilot who occasionally flew chartered planes for businesses.
Polly Thompson reluctantly testified against her brother about five years ago when he was charged with starving bison and cattle kept at their parents' farm near Zanesville.
"Anybody that has animals should take care of them," she said in an interview at her home on the outskirts of Zanesville.
Terry Thompson was a gun dealer in Zanesville for many years but told federal authorities he never hunted, according to court records. "Absolutely unequivocally not a hunter," he said.
His wife, Marian Thompson, told investigators that they never sold the animals or opened the farm to visitors.
"We don't want them on display," she said.
She told detectives in the past that they took in the animals because no one else wanted them. She also said she was trying to end the practice.
"I'm going to put a stop to bringing in all these animals. I'm telling Terry, 'No more,'" she said in a report filed in April 2005.
Authorities and animal experts went to the farm three years ago during a cruelty to animals investigation and found that some of the cages weren't padlocked and a few were secured with plastic ties that had been partially chewed, according to the records released by the Muskingum County Sheriff's Office.
The director of animal management from a wildlife preserve in Ohio said the bottoms of fences weren't secured and gates meant for dog kennels were used in pens housing the big cats. He also noted that a cage housing two lions should have had a much higher fence.
"There was also a tree in this cage area, and there was nothing to prevent the animal from climbing the tree and escaping," a report said.
Animal pens were scattered on the patio and driveway of the Thompsons' home on the property, and there were several others inside the garage and basement. They had a black leopard in the basement and two tigers and two lion cubs in the garage.
On a patio next to the Thompsons' pool, two lion cubs and one black bear cub were in the same pen.
A veterinarian from Columbus Zoo saw that a tiger was missing its tail and thought it had been ripped or bitten off by another animal in an adjoining cage. Two tigers were in a cage filled with standing water, rotting carcasses and lots of bones.
The zoo officials also expressed concerns about malnutrition and the sizes of the pens.
Thompson also kept a monkey in a cage too small for it to stand up in, kept a wolf in an old car and had a zebra in a horse trailer, said a Muskingum County resident familiar with Thompson who saw the conditions and spoke with the AP on condition of anonymity for fear of repercussions over the comments.
Authorities decided not to take the Thompsons' animals because there were no serious health problems but told the couple to fix the cages or they would get a court order forcing the changes.
Within three weeks, taller fences had been constructed. A county prosecutor then told detectives there was little else they could do because they had no authority to regulate anyone who keeps wild or exotic animals.
Even after the changes, detectives wrote in their final report that "it is impossible for the sheriff's office to say the Thompson property is safe."
The Associated Press and msnbc.com staff contributed to this report.
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RIO DE JANEIRO?? One of Brazil's most-wanted drug lords has been arrested in neighboring Paraguay, Rio de Janeiro state authorities say.
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State public safety spokesman Daniel Pereira said Alexander Mendes da Silva was arrested Wednesday in the Paraguayan city of Pedro Juan Caballero.
He said Paraguay will deport Silva, who is expected to arrive in Brazil by Thursday.
Silva is considered one of Brazil's four most-wanted drug traffickers and was allegedly responsible for the drug trade in Rio's Mangueira shantytown.
Silva fled Brazil last June days before police raided Mangueira as part of an ongoing program to expel traffickers from Rio's shantytowns.
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The fences had been left unsecured at the Muskingum County Animal Farm in Zanesville, and the animals' cages were open, police said. They wouldn't say what animals escaped but said the preserve had lions, wolves, tigers, giraffes, camels and bears. Bears and wolves were among 25 animals that were shot and killed, police said, and there were multiple sightings of exotic animals along a nearby highway.
"These are wild animals that you would see on TV in Africa," Sheriff Matt Lutz warned at a news conference.
He called the escaped animals "mature, very big, aggressive," but said a caretaker told authorities the preserve's 48 animals had been fed on Monday. Police were patrolling the 40-acre farm and the surrounding areas in cars, not on foot, he said, and were concerned that big cats and bears could be hiding.
"This is a bad situation," Lutz said. "It's been a situation for a long time."
Lutz said his office started getting phone calls about 5:30 p.m. that wild animals were loose just west of town on a road that runs under Interstate 70.
He said four deputies with assault rifles in a pickup truck went to the animal farm, where they found the farm's owner, Terry Thompson, dead and all the animal cage doors open. He wouldn't say how Thompson died but said several aggressive animals were near his body and had to be shot.
Thompson, who lived on the property, had orangutans and chimps in cages in his home, but they were still in their cages, Lutz said.
The deputies, who saw many animals standing outside their cages and others that had escaped past the fencing surrounding the property, began shooting them. There had been no reports of injuries among the public.
Staffers from the Columbus Zoo went to the scene, hoping to tranquilize and capture the animals. The sheriff said caretakers might put food in the animals' cages to try to lure them back.
Lutz said people should stay indoors and he might ask schools to close Wednesday. At least four area school districts canceled classes.
Lutz said his main concern was protecting the public.
"Any kind of cat species or bear species is what we are concerned about," he said. "We don't know how much of a head start these animals have on us."
A spokeswoman for the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, which usually handles native wildlife, such as deer, said state Division of Wildlife officers were helping the sheriff's office deal with the situation in Zanesville, a city of about 25,000 in the east-central part of the state.
"This is, I would say, unique," spokeswoman Laura Jones said.