SFGate: Day in Pictures
Tuesday, Jun. 19, 2012
Kick up your heels, ladies! At Euro 2012 in Gdansk, Poland, Spanish fans celebrate as their team gets a leg up on Croatia with a late goal that proved to be the game winner.
Beware of the demon kangeroo of Lauenhagen: Police are asking for the public's help in apprehending a fugitive who escaped from a private residence in Lauenhagen, Germany, by bounding over a 7-foot-high fence. The suspect, who goes by the name of Bernhard, is gray-haired, jumpy and apparently possessed.
Is he the next Uggie? In Los Angeles, Fairfield the fox terrier auditions with writer/director Brandon Camp (right) and animal trainer Mark Forbes for the starring role in the film remake of "Benji." Camp's father created "Benji," the story of a lovable stray who rescues children from kidnappers, nearly 40 years ago.
Take the photo already! We can't hold this pose forever. (Meercats at Lion Park, Johannesburg.)
Show-off: Most people rappel feet first, but not this cop descending the 252-meter-high Donauturm (Danube Tower) in Vienna.
Fred and Ginger: Playful Tembo dances with keeper Thomas Chalice, who has been raising the orphaned 5-month-old baby at Tony Fitzjohn's Mkomazi rhino sanctuary in Mkomazi, Tanzania.
Brew chew: Milwaukee Brewer Carlos Gomez having a career year at the plate despite leading the league in popouts.
Unless you have cobra insurance, handling venomous snakes should be left to experts like Grant Kemmerer of Wild World of Animals, who can charm a viper without even playing a tune. (Community Days in DuBois, Pa.)
Burning rubber: Coal miners lower a flaming tire to a barricade blocking a road next to the Santiago mine near Oviedo, Spain. Some 8,000 mineworkers at more than 40 coal mines in northern Spain are striking to protest government cuts in coal subsidies.
So a priest, a rabbi, a minister walk into a bar ... Nuns crack themselves up during the International Eucharistic Congress at Croke Park in Dublin.
Eat your veggies: Britain's Prince William feeds carrots and celery to Zawadi, a 5-year-old black rhino, at England's Port Lympne Wild Animal Park. The Duke of Cambridge called people involved in the illegal trade of rhino horn "extremely ignorant, selfish and utterly wrong."
Here's to minglin' with bow-headed women: At the Royal Ascot horse meeting near Windsor, Berkshire, a race-goer wears a bow big enough for a Christmas Lexus.
Don't let him near your ear, Spike! Mike Tyson puts up his fists as Spike Lee frames the shot after the pair announced that the former heavyweight champ will star on Broadway in an autobiographical one-man act called "Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth." Lee will direct the show.
No vacancy: All nests appear to be taken on Bass Rock, the world's largest single-rock gannet colony, in Scotland's Firth of Forth. Gannets return with the same mate and often use the same nest each year.