UK : East : Up on the roof.. First this...
AN adult and a child were rescued by firefighters after getting stuck on the roof of a house.
Fire crews were called to High Beach in Felixstowe at 11.12am today.
On arrival they found one child, aged around seven-years-old and one adult, stuck on the ridge of a roof at a three-storey house.
Two fire engines from Felixstowe and one from Ipswich attended the incident and crews were able to rescue the pair.
Firefighters stood down from the scene at 12.31pm.
Pair rescued from house roof - News - Evening Star
and then this
A 10-YEAR-old boy had to be rescued from the roof of Woodbridge railway station today by firefighters.
A crew with a turntable ladder from Colchester Road fire station, in Ipswich, was sent to the scene after the youngster had managed to clamber on to the roof. The drama happened just after 4.50pm.
Boy stuck on roof rescued by fire crew - News - Evening Star
(these places aren't too far from each other). can any of the locals explain why these kids and adults alike are scaling the roofs? are they afraid the North Sea is about to inundate half the region, or waiting for aliens to land?
UK : LDN (N) : Snake on a doorstep! The homeowner said that a young woman knocked on her door in Cricklewood, north London, in the early hours of Thursday morning. When she answered the door, the woman asked for 'Andrew' before walking off, leaving a pillow case on the doorstep.
Confused, the homeowner spotted that the pillow case appeared to be moving. Looking inside, she discovered that it contained a four-foot-long South American boa.
At that point, she quite sensibly decided to call the police.
Mystery boa constrictor left on woman's doorstep | Metro.co.uk
in 2001 a female Lynx was found in Cricklewood (she was also taken to London Zoo, and eventually ended up in France for the European Lynx breeding project)
UK : East : Rare bat visits Norfolk pub… Volunteers who spent the past two weeks tracking rare barbastelle bats in Norfolk found they visited a pub, a museum and a town council.
Transmitters the size of a sunflower seed were fixed to the bats' fur to allow experts to understand more.
They allow the bats to be heard up to two miles away on receiving equipment and drop off in time.
Researchers found one bat had visited Sheringham Town council, the seafront, a golf course and a local pub.
BBC News - Rare bat observed visiting local pub in Norfolk
IN : Trainee government workers essay on the cow. An Indian chap wrote this essay for the Civil Service Examination (in India you still have to sit an exam before being interviewed for a public sector job).
He passed (if you read the following with the "right accent" it makes more sense) and got the job :laugh_at:
I think this occured some years ago in the last part of the 20th century, so I expect the man who wrote this is middle aged now. He is probably a call centre manager :laugh_at:
"The cow is a successful animal. Also he is quadrupud, and because he is
female, he give milk,but will do so when he is got child.He is same like
God,sacred to Hindus and useful to man.But he has got four legs together.
Two are forward and two are afterwards.
"His whole body can be utilised for use. More so the milk. What can it do?
Various ghee, butter,cream, curd, why and the condensed milk and so forth.
Also he is useful to cobbler, watermans and mankind generally.
"His motion is slow only because he is of asitudinious species. Also his
other motion is much useful to trees, plants as well as making flat cakes in
hand and drying in the sun. Cow is the only animal that extricates his feeding
after eating. Then afterwards she chew with his teeth whom are situated in
the inside of the mouth. He is incessantly in the meadows in the grass.
"His only attacking and defending organ is the horn, specially so when he is
got child. This is done by knowing his head whereby he causes the weapons
to be paralleled to the ground of the earth and instantly proceed with great
velocity forwards.
"He has got tails also, but not like similar animals. It has hairs on the
other end of the other side. This is done to frighten away the flies which
alight on his cohoa body whereupon he gives hit with it.
The palms of his feet are soft unto the touch. So the grasses head is not
crushed. At night time have poses by looking down on the ground and he shouts
his eyes like his relatives, the horse does not do so.
"This is the cow."
found on another site.. some years ago a friend of mine (who also dealt cannabis) had a pet rabbit in the house. This rabbit used to regularly eat whatever careless folk dropped on the floor..
it actually lived the longest out of any captive rabbit I have known (about 15 years), and when her house got raided the cops actually herded it into a locked room using one of those small shields used against dogs "to preserve the health and safety of officers" :laugh_at:
UK : Mids : Fire Brigade rescue snake hunter from mud.. oops!
Ambulance crews called to the lake near Larford Lane in Stourport-on-Severn found fire crews already trying to get the 25-year-old out of the mud.
A fire spokesman said the man, who was looking for snakes, had been in the mud for 50 minutes when they arrived and it was nearly up to his chest.
Emergency services were called by the man's mother after he phoned BBC News - Man 'up to waist in mud' in Stourport-on-Severn rescued
there are easier ways of finding snakes..
BBC - Wildlife Finder - Grass snake (video, facts and news)
Bruce Airhead Saw this guy last weekend at Cambridge folk fest,
Marcus had seen him before at Glasto and he's amazing!!!
Certainly worth watching til the end....... great!! :weee::weee:
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MY : 20-somethings go back to school.. A tudung is an Islamic headscarf worn in Malaysia..
AMPANG: Seven men, one of them impersonating a schoolgirl, went back to their alma mater as they apparently missed their student days.
All of them, aged 20, were in school uniforms and sneaked into their co-ed secondary school here yesterday.
One of them wore a girl's uniform complete with tudung.
"The school principal caught them in several classes at 8.30am," Ampang OCPD Asst Comm Abdul Jalil Hassan said.
Investigations revealed the men had left the school after completing Form Five in 2007.
The men claimed that they decided to sneak back into the school because they were nostalgic about their student days.
However, ACP Abdul Jalil said they did not rule out the possibility that they might have other motives.
The men were released on police bail at 6pm after having their statements recorded and urine samples taken which tested negative for drugs.
According to another report, they were so effective in their disguise that security guards in the school were fooled.
Man impersonates schoolgirl and sneaks into school
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