In the movies, when an animal gets shot with a tranquilizer dart, it succumbs quickly. That’s not how it goes with Scrim, the Crescent City’s celebrated escape-artist dog. When Scrim was stung with ...

Rocker Billy Idol once had to be subdued by Thai police with a tranquilizer dart after he partied for three weeks in a Bangkok hotel suite. Billy Idol did go to Thailand in 1989 on a self-described, ...

A black bear roamed through the Hudson Valley village of Pleasantville on Oct. 5, ignoring intial attempts by authorities to ...

It was 5 a.m. on a July morning on Banks Street. Using a tranquilizer dart gun that looked like an assault rifle, a volunteer veterinarian drew a bead on a wire-haired terrier mix named Scrim. The dog ...

It was the Instagram post heard around New Orleans. “WE GOT HIM!!!” reads the exhilarated caption, below a photo of the city’s most wanted fugitive: a scraggly, dirt-stained dog named Scrim. Beneath ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio—In order for an animal tranquilizer gun to work, it has to fire darts at a rather particular speed. Too slow, and the dart bounces off the animal without injecting the sedative. Too ...

Lions, tigers, and trapped bears in trees, oh my! A young female bear was rescued from a tree in Tracy, Calif. this Wednesday after being shot with tranquilizer darts. The homeowner said that he ...

TRAVERSE CITY, MI – A 350-pound black bear relaxing in a tree in a Traverse City neighborhood was shot with four tranquilizers before it fell asleep and eventually fell out of the tree as dozens ...

North Carolina deputies shot a lion eight times after it killed an intern. It took eight shotgun blasts by sheriff's deputies to kill a lion that got loose at a North Carolina wildlife center and ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. Lucy’s handy-dandy silver-plated tranquilizer gun in the Fallout TV show is a mostly original creation designed for the new Amazon Prime adaption. But ...