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June 26, 2013 at 11:49 am | Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

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THE NEWS

Odd news from around the world

Robber goes straight immediately: “A ROBBER who held up a bakery in northern Victoria with a pretend gun placed an order and paid for it when staff refused to hand over cash. The bakery bandit waited in line to be served and intimated that he was holding a gun when he got to the front of the line. He demanded that staff hand over cash, but the staff member refused, and the man then placed an order and paid for it before leaving the store. Police said no one was injured during the incident that occurred on Blake St, Nathalia, at 10.45am last Friday. The Caucasian offender was wearing tradesman type clothing and a blue beanie with yellow writing. He is described as being between 168cm to 178cm tall with a stocky build and a thick Irish or Scottish accent.”

Magician Dynamo has a novel way of catching a bus: “With a smile on his face, and a stiff breeze running through his heavily waxed barnet, the celebrity illusionist Dynamo floats serenely across Westminster Bridge while ‘levitating’ from the side of a double-decker bus. Pictures of the audacious stunt were splashed across the news pages yesterday, in a fresh PR coup for the ‘street conjurer’ from a Bradford council estate who has used his fast hands and gift for mesmerising displays of old-fashioned trickery to gain international celebrity. He’s also ‘walked’ across the Thames, turned Austrian snow into diamonds, made cardboard butterflies come alive, turned Fanta into Coke, and somehow managed to convert lottery tickets into banknotes on live television. All of which means that the recent bus ride through Central London is only the latest remarkable journey that Dynamo — whose real name is the rather less exciting Steven Frayne — has completed in recent years. Steven was raised largely by his great-grandfather, Ken Walsh, a keen amateur magician.”

Actor pulled over by police for having comedy blow-up doll in car: “The driver of a replica Only Fools and Horses van was pulled over by police and threatened with arrest – for having a comedy blow-up doll in the back. Police in Bognor Regis, Sussex, told Richard Foster, 34, to remove the ‘offensive’ blonde doll visible in his Trotters Independent Trading Company van’s rear window. An officer told him the doll could cause ‘alarm or distress’ and threatened him with arrest if he didn’t do as he was told. Mr Foster, who hires out a replica of the iconic three-wheel Reliant Regal that features in the series, was outraged by the claims and at first refused. But he was on his way to pick up a groom and best man for a wedding and had to give in or risk ruining the happy couple’s day if he was locked up.”

Woman killed by runaway supermarket trolley: “A horrific video has emerged of a grandmother being killed by a runaway supermarket trolley. The accident, which was caught on CCTV, happened on Friday morning at Lianhua supermarket in Shanghai. The 60-year-old, who was shopping alone, died from horrific injuries after being hit by the metal trolley at the Chinese store. In the video, the woman, wearing pink, is seen pushing her trolley down a flat escalator. She reaches the bottom and calmly pushes it off before walking ahead. But seconds later a trolley is seen speeding down the escalator behind her. A sound must have alerted the woman as she is seen looking behind her in the split-second before she is hit. A few seconds later, two panicked men can be seen running down the escalator to help the woman, followed closely by another bystander. According to a report on Stomp and QQ two men had loaded a trolley of their own with 15 crates of drinks, instead of using a supermarket trolley – store trolleys are adapted to lock onto the ridges on the escalator.”

‘White-robed religious sect is keeping us awake’: “People looking for an extra hour in bed can often be left frustrated by noisy early-morning risers. Loud postmen or binmen are often blamed for ruining a lazy lie-in. But when fed-up residents on a Barnsley housing estate decided to complain about noise recently, it was for something altogether different. The South Yorkshire community has been left tired and stressed after being woken at 5.30am by a white robed religious sect praying and chanting in woodland behind their homes. The robed individuals are Learnard Radzokota and his Christian group the Friday Apostles, and they regularly go into the trees to pray and chant at 5.30am. Now some residents of New Lodge estate have written to Yorkshire Housing, Mr Radzokota’s landlord, to complain about the disturbance. Mr Radzokota, known as Father Isaiah, said the group didn’t really have a choice but to pray outdoors, because they have no building to worship in.”

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