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How is that even possible?

This mysterious plumbing incident happened at around 2a.m. local time in Manchester, UK on February 1, 2021.



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A cargo ship was broken in two by a huge wave off Turkey’s Black Sea province of Bartin earlier this month. Three sailors died when the Ukrainian-owned Arvin sank in heavy seas on Jan. 16 after the wave snapped its keel near the bow.

 

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Lightning kills 25 cattle

Chipinge commercial farmer Mr Dawie Joubert was left counting losses after his 25 cattle were struck by lightning on Thursday afternoon.

The district’s Department of Agricultural, Technical and Extension Services livestock promotion officer Mr John Mwandifura confirmed the incident and said he had liaised with the Chipinge district development coordinator Mr William Mashava over the case.

Mr Mashava confirmed the incident.

“Yes, I can confirm the 25 cattle owned by commercial farmer Mr Dawie Joubert were struck by lightning cattle at his farm, popularly known as Chibonere Farm, on Thursday,” he said. “The carcasses of the 25 cattle were ferried to a crocodile farm in Chiredzi.”

Heavy and violent storms have hit Chipinge in recent weeks, causing flooding in low lying areas.

Incessant and heavy rains being experienced countrywide have seen increased incidents of lightning affecting both animals and humans.

(More on the link)

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Koala rescued after 5-car pileup on Australian freeway

Koala rescued after 5-car pileup on Australian freeway
A koala has been rescued after causing a five-car pileup while trying to cross a six-lane freeway in southern Australia
By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press
February 9, 2021
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CANBERRA, Australia -- A koala has been rescued after causing a five-car pileup while trying to cross a six-lane freeway in southern Australia.

Police said the crash in heavy Monday morning traffic in the city of Adelaide caused some injuries but no one required an ambulance.


The animal’s rescuer said she got out of her car to investigate what had caused the pileup. Nadia Tugwell, with her coat in hand, teamed up with a stranger clutching a blanket in a bid to capture the marsupial. A concrete highway divider had blocked the koala’s crossing.

“The koala was absolutely not damaged in any way,” Tugwell said. “It was very active, but very calm.”

Once the koala was in her trunk, Tugwell drove to a gas station to turn the animal over to wildlife rescuers. In the interim, the koala was able to climb from the trunk into her SUV's cabin.

“It decided to come to the front toward me, so I said, ‘OK, you stay here. I’ll get out,’” she said.

“It started sitting for a while on the steering wheel: (as if ) saying: ‘let’s go for a drive,’ and that’s when I started taking photos,” she added.

Tugwell said she had learned from past experience how to calm koalas by covering their eyes. She lives near a eucalyptus forest outside Adelaide and has twice called animal handlers to rescue koalas injured in fights with other koalas.


“I live up in the hills, and if you let them do what they want to do and you don’t chase them or something, they’re OK,” Tugwell said.

The leather trimmings of her luxury vehicle were scratched by the animal, but Tugwell said the happy ending was well worth the damage.

The koala later was released in a forest — well away from the freeway.



What, you don't think they'd hurt a f'ing koala bear, do you?
 

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Lightning kills 25 cattle

Chipinge commercial farmer Mr Dawie Joubert was left counting losses after his 25 cattle were struck by lightning on Thursday afternoon.

The district’s Department of Agricultural, Technical and Extension Services livestock promotion officer Mr John Mwandifura confirmed the incident and said he had liaised with the Chipinge district development coordinator Mr William Mashava over the case.

Mr Mashava confirmed the incident.

“Yes, I can confirm the 25 cattle owned by commercial farmer Mr Dawie Joubert were struck by lightning cattle at his farm, popularly known as Chibonere Farm, on Thursday,” he said. “The carcasses of the 25 cattle were ferried to a crocodile farm in Chiredzi.”

Heavy and violent storms have hit Chipinge in recent weeks, causing flooding in low lying areas.

Incessant and heavy rains being experienced countrywide have seen increased incidents of lightning affecting both animals and humans.

(More on the link)

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I had an uncle that lost about 10 cows from lighting back in the 70s.
 

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Florida Metal Musician Turns Uncle's Skeleton Into 'Skelecaster' Guitar | HuffPost

Florida Metal Musician Turns Uncle’s Skeleton Into ‘Skelecaster’ Guitar
Tampa musician Prince Midnight made the ghoulish guitar to honor his Uncle Filip, “the biggest metal head I’ve ever known.”

leftover Fender Telecaster and the bones of his dearly departed Uncle Filip, the man who introduced him to the rock genre back in the 1990s.
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Filip died in a motorcycle accident in Greece in 1996 at the age of 28, and his skeleton was donated to a local college.

“After 20 years, he ended up in a cemetery my family had to pay rent on. Like, literally in a wooden box,” Midnight told HuffPost. “It’s a big problem in Greece because the Orthodox religion doesn’t want people cremated.”

So, with the help of a local funeral home, Prince Midnight had Uncle Filip’s bones sent from Greece.

But the plot thickened when he declined to buy a cemetery plot for Uncle Filip.
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The bones were in pieces, and after a few weeks of showing them to his friends, Prince Midnight decided that since Uncle Filip was a metal head “we’d turn him into a guitar.”

Friends familiar with making guitars from scratch warned him that a bone guitar wouldn’t sound as good as one made from wood, but Prince Midnight was undeterred.

“I didn’t care,” he said.

Turning Uncle Filip’s remains into a ghoulish guitar was a challenge. First, Prince Midnight had to weld a metal bar to the spine to attach the neck to the skeleton.

Then he had to make sure the neck and bridge would be exactly parallel so the guitar strings would freely ring.

He also had to put a jack for the cord into Uncle Filip’s hip bone.
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Although Filip’s skull was included in the remains, Prince Midnight said it was damaged and couldn’t be added to the head of the guitar.

Prince Midnight is forbidden by law from selling the “skelecaster,” but he’s having fun stringing along Uncle Filip.

Still, he admits his project caused some awkward moments with his mom.

“At first, she said it was sacrilegious and the work of the devil ― you know how moms are,” Prince Midnight said. “But I asked her, ‘Uncle Filip was the biggest metal head of anybody. Where would he rather be? In the ground or shredding?’”

“She said, ‘shredding.’”
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It's astonishing the things people will do sometimes lol...

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Snowbound Man Confesses to Fake Murder Hoping Police Will Plow His Road

With the road outside his home having not been cleared for days following a huge snowstorm, a housebound Ukrainian man came up with an audacious plan to rectify the problem: confess to a fake murder so that police would have to plow his street in order to arrest him. The ill-conceived idea was reportedly put into action this past Saturday when the unnamed homeowner in the village of Grybova Rudnya called an emergency hotline and shared a rather grisly tale.

In the midst of a particularly vicious fight with his stepfather, the man told authorities, his temper got the best of him and he proceeded to stab the senior citizen in the chest multiple times. The unfortunate victim, the homeowner lamented, was now unresponsive on the floor and seemingly dead. Deeply repentant for what he had done, the man asked the operator to dispatch the police so that they could come and arrest him as well as remove his stepfather's remains.

However, he 'helpfully' cautioned them, the road outside his home had yet to be cleared following the recent storm and, therefore, the cops would need to be accompanied by a snowplow in order to ultimately take him into custody. Alas, it would seem that karma quickly got the best of the man as, in the brief window of time between when he placed the call and the police arrived at his home, a plow actually made its way down the street and freed him from his snowbound predicament.

As such, when the cops showed up at the residence to investigate the call, they did so with ease and soon learned that the murder confession had been an elaborate ruse concocted by the man in the hopes of getting his road cleared. While the authorities were presumably relieved that there had not been a brutal slaying in their community, they were also understandably irritated by the entire affair and charged the homeowner with filing a false police report.


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