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THE NEWS

Odd news from around the world

Man kills his mother over Avril Lavigne tickets: “A Chicago man was sentenced today to 40 years in prison for killing his mother after she refused to buy him tickets to an Avril Lavigne concert. Robert Lyons, 39, was found guilty of first-degree murder in September 2011 after a six-day trial, the Chicago Sun-Times reported. Prosecutors said Lyons began to argue with his mother, Linda Bolek, when she refused to call a friend to arrange tickets for the concert in March 2008. Lyons hit his mother in the head with a cognac bottle, stabbed her nine times in the back with two knives, then poured insecticide and drain cleaner on her body. He was apprehended a few hours after the murder at a Hooters restaurant. During Lyons’ trial, his mother’s twin sister, Pat Lowry, said he had struggled with psychological problems and anger issues since he was a teenager.”

Handy carrots: “A gardener got her own unique high five-a-day in one go after digging up a hand-shaped carrot complete with five fingers. Dianne Neal from Essex couldn’t believe her eyes when she unearthed the bizarre root vegetable. The carrot, which resembles a right hand, has curved fingers of the right length, an outward pointing thumb and even a circular palm. Although unusual, a carrot with multiple taproots like this one is not a special cultivar. Instead its strange shape is due to damage caused by growing in rocky soil. And the handy carrot is not the first such human-like orange vegetable. In 2009, Peter Jackson, 66, found an almost identical carrot in the garden of his home in Shropshire. He promptly cooked it and served it to his amazed daughter Lindsay. Lindsay, 42, said: ‘We couldn’t believe it, it was quite a shock to see a carrot perfectly shaped like a hand.”

Bungling British Council ruins couple’s dream wedding: “A couple have told how their dream wedding turned into a day to remember for all the wrong reasons after an appalling series of blunders by the council registry office. Bride Michelle Rogers, 36, and Groom Peter, 41, had to wait two hours for a replacement registrar to turn up because the one who was due to attend was out walking her dog. Eventually when the registrar did arrive it transpired that she had brought the wrong vows. And she even got Michelle’s name wrong calling her by her middle name Tracey. To make matters even worse the CD player was broken so they couldn’t play the songs they had selected. Michelle and Peter finally tied the knot at 5.00pm – more than two hours later than they had expected. They had organised to have pictures taken in the grounds of Dover Discovery Centre, but the photographer said it was too dark. The couple from Dover had forked out £4,500 for the council’s ‘Simply Perfect’ wedding service.”

Cat who defeated an alligator: It looks like a good way for this cat to become a tasty snack. But when the bold feline decided to take on an alligator in New Orleans, he came out remarkably intact. He chose to take on the reptile at an wildlife park just as it was trying to eat some chicken, and began raining blows on its snout. It begins with the cat firing off three right jabs before the gator steps back to flash its most menacing stare down ever.
Growl: The gator flashes its bone-crushing jaws but the cat remains gloriously unimpressed. After the tense face off, the gator moves forward, grabs a piece a chicken and wham! gets a right hook straight in the mouth. As the ‘living fossil’ twists its head and picks up more meat, the cat unleashes three left hooks in quick succession. The gator tried coming at the chicken from a different direction, the cat threw an overhand right, the dazed gator sheepishly retreated into the water”

Pink sheep! “Parents should prepare for some tricky questions from their confused children if they head to a a New Zealand nature park and find this flock of pink wooly mammals grazing on the hills. The extraordinary sight is causing a sensation at SheepWorld, near Auckland. Park bosses originally dyed the animals as part of breast cancer awareness week, but it proved to be such a hit with visitors that they decided to keep them as a permanent feature. Only five sheep are coloured at one time and the dye washes out in the rain. John Collyer, from SheepWorld, said the food colouring they use is completely harmless to the animals and had even been approved by a local vet. SheepWorld is dubbed an insight into sheep farming in New Zealand. Visitors can watch sheep-dog shows and also watch as the flocks are shorn of their woolly fleeces.”

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