Police said they believe the man was in a physical altercation, and may have hit his head as a result.

Officials in the coastal Oregon town of Astoria have come up with a unique and colourful way of dealing with the town’s sea lion infestation.

An effort to use a fake orca to scare off hundreds of sea lions crowding docks off the Oregon coast has ended, at least temporarily, with the fiberglass creature belly-up after it was swamped by a passing ship.