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29 March 2024

Bizarre: 'He is wider than he is tall'

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BRITAIN: A 25-year-old young man has been warned by doctors he could die unless he loses some fat.

Rob Gillett is 5’ 3” tall but measures 6’ 6” around his girth, reports Mirror.

Addicted to sweet food, he eats junk food which contain more than 7,000 calories per day. His usual diet comprises cream doughnuts, chocolate, biscuits and cake washed down with fizzy drinks. He just can't stop eating and cries himself to sleep because he cannot live a normal life, has not got a girlfriend, cannot fit into fashionable clothes and go out and meet friends. 

A doctor told the daily that it is extremely rare for any person to have a waist circumference greater than height.

 

Prisoners enjoy adult TV viewing in jail

TEXAS: Inmates in a prison in Texas rewied their television to watch porn every night for three months. The guards complained about the racy content but no one from the cable company responded to their complaints, reports Daily Mail.


"4 dorm watching porno channel again," the Daily Mail quoted one complaint as saying. "One of the TVs had porn on it. Told them to change the channel," another complaint said. According to Liberty County, they complained to Comcast, the facility's cable provider, for weeks but it wasn't taken seriously.

The nightly viewing of adult content led to several fights inside the prison.


Finally a cable scrambler was attached last month after the prison authorities threatened to terminate their service altogether. "I believe that Comcast just couldn't believe that their system had been manipulated," Captain Rex Evans with the Liberty County Sheriff's Office, told the daily.

Some inmates who had some knowlege of cable connections, disconnected the cable to bypass the set-top control box, and directly connected the cable wire into the television. This gave them access to adult channels.

 

Vomit bird throws up a defence against predators

PARIS: Babies of a bird species called the Eurasian roller vomit a foul-smelling orange liquid as a defence mechanism against predators, biologists have discovered.

Offspring of the bright-blue jackdaw-sized bird -- Latin name Coracias garrulus -- throw up the repugnant fluid when they are frightened in their nests, according to a paper appearing on Wednesday in the journal Biology Letters.

Covered in vomit, the nestlings not surprisingly become less attractive as a snack, the team says.

But the smell also alerts parents, returning to the nest, that a threatening incident has happened in their absence, they believe.

The scientists tested the "olfactory cue" theory by visiting nests with 10-day-old nestlings inside.

They used a small paintbrush to daub a tiny amount of either lemon juice or vomit on the inside of the nest. Parents returning to a vomit-treated nest reacted with great caution, delaying the time when they would settle in the home.

Previous research has found that birds have a surprisingly wide range of defensive reactions.

For instance, the northern fulmar (Fulmaris glacialis) yawks up stomach oils against intruders that makes them lose their waterproof coating.

And the common eider (Somateria mollissima) and northern shoveler (Anas acuta) have the ability to spray faeces on their eggs to deter mammal egg-thieves.

However, the Eurasian roller is the first bird that has been found to use a scent, derived in response to a threat, as a means of communication, says the paper.

In that regard, it joins many other animals, from insects to humans, that use the "smell of fear" to warn fellow members of their species of an attack.

The study is led by Deseada Parejo of Spain's Estacio Experimental de Zonas Aridas.

 

Elevator prank goes viral

French prankster Remi Gaillard decks out the inside of a lift to look like an apartment.

When a woman calls a lift, she finds Gaillard making himself at home and watching what looks like a TV inside the elevator. The woman tries to call the other lift, but finds a pantry inside it. Again Gaillard's doing.

The video clip has received more than 1.8 million hits on YouTube so far.

Gaillard has earlier created viral videos by disguising himself as a player in the Coupe de France final and bringing Mario Kart to life.

 

Father cheats blind daughter

INDIA: A man used forged documents to cheat his daughter of Rs1 crore worth of property. He used falisified paperwork to show the dealers that he had the power of attorney for his blind daughter, reports Mid-Day.

He wrested the property from his 21-year-old daughter. The girl filed police complaint against her father. Her grandfather had gifted her the property. The proprietorship of the 500-sqft apartment, was formally transferred to her via a gift in 2011, said the paper.

After her father managed to get the deeds transferred to his own name using a bogus thumbrpint and forged document, he threw the mother and daughter out of the house in the middle of the night in December. The duo now live at the mother's parent's house.

The girl is nowing going to court to complain about the delayed tactics employed by the police despite making several complaints to them about her father's underhanded means. She alleges, the police hasn't done anything in her case as her father knows several police officials and his using his proximity to stall the probe.

 

Dog gets cosmetic surgery worth £10,000

BRITAIN: A grumpy old dog has received a new lease of life as his owners spent £10,000 on his makeover.

The five-year-old bloodhound named Junior, resembles the cartoon dog Droopy. He has already had tummy tuck as well as a facelift. The procedures have already produced a bill of more than £10,000 in the last two years, reports Daily Mail.

Junior suffers from a disorder which causes excess skin to develop which almost led to him becoming blind. The owners had to opt for surgery.

The disorder also led to the dog adding more fla around his tummy. It was restricting his movement and he had given up running. This led to his second surgery.

Junior's facelift in 2010 cost £1,200, while the latest surgery, a tummy tuck cost £1,500. Further surgery and vet bills come to £6,000 while medication tops £1,000, the paper said. The owners are not too woried about the bills as they consider Junior as their child.

They are just glad that Junior is looking more like his old self.