-Elephant Makes Daring Escape from Zoo. An elephant briefly escaped from New Zealand?s Auckland zoo on Friday after dropping a log on an electrified fence and crashing through a gate.

Twenty-year-old Burma, one of two elephants at the zoo, was free for about half an hour, forcing some road closures during the morning commuter rush, but posed no threat to people and did no damage to any other property.

The 2.8-ton Asian elephant, which stands about two-and-a-half meters tall, was found in a park behind the zoo and keepers walked her back to her enclosure to join the other elephant.

?When the keepers found her she vocally responded ? it was almost a ?thank goodness you?re here?,? said Maria Finnegan, the zoo?s director of life sciences.

?She was a little shaken and both the girls were clearly happy to be reunited.?

Burma had neutralized the electrified fence around the elephant enclosure by dropping a large log onto it, then climbed into a moat and walked along the perimeter fence before pushing through a gate to enter the neighbouring park, she said.

?We think it was an opportunistic thing, not a deliberate action, she?s realized the fence was not there and then decided to roam....?

Finnegan said the elephants had recently been allowed to roam their enclosure during the warm summer nights, but the zoo would now strengthen the fence and keep the pair indoors overnight under the control of keepers.

-You?re in a good mood today, officer... Israeli police had to close an entire floor of their station because the pungent scent of tons of confiscated marijuana was making them high, an Israeli newspaper said on Friday.

The drugs, smuggled from Egypt, are kept in a storeroom of a police station in the southern town of Dimona. Police have confiscated so much, that the room is filled up almost immediately after its contents are sent to be incinerated.

?Every time I came to work I felt...like I was high,? the Maariv newspaper quoted one officer as saying. ?The smell of marijuana was killing us ? it was impossible to work.?

The newspaper said a police medical officer ordered personnel to move to another floor until the drugs could be shipped out.