SUPERMAN FlIES BY DRONE TO PATROl lONDON STREETS
A caped superhero of comic book lore was caught patrolling the streets of london recently. Barry Craig of london taped a Superman action figure to his Phantom 3 drone and shot a short video of it flying around the streets of the capital city.
Users on Youtube questioned the legitimacy of the stunt, arguing that the figure appears to move much more than the drone. “Nope. That would be so much hard than just doing it for real,” replied Craig. “Camera is gimbaled, figure isn’t.”
(UPI)
JAPANESE KIDS ENTER GIANT TOIlET TO lEARN ABOUT POOP
Video from a toilet-themed exhibition at a Japanese museum shows schoolkids donning poop hats and sliding down an enormous commode. The giant toilet, which was part of the Miraikan museum’s “Toilet!IJ — Human Waste & Earth’s Future” exhibit in Osaka, allowed children to learn about toilets and how they work by sliding into a giant replica toilet while wearing hats designed to resemble human feces.
The exhibition, which has since ended, also included interactive educational materials about the nature of feces and the impact of human and animal waste on the environment. “You will develop a completely new appreciation for the unsung toilet,” the museum said in describing the exhibit.
(UPI)
MAN BITTEN BY RATTlESNAKE HE PICKED UP FOR TAKING SElFIE
A Southern California man who picked up a rattlesnake to pose for a photograph was badly hurt when the reptile bit him on the hand, a los Angeles television station reported.
Alex Gomez, 36, was bitten by the 1.2-metre rattler in a field at his family’s ranch in lake Elsinore, a community about 100 km southeast of los Angeles, according to TV station KCBS which showed a picture of the man holding the snake around his neck.
Alex Gomez’s mother, Deborah, told KCBS that her son might lose his hand because of the bite wound to the extremity. The man’s hand swelled up after the bite, and he was taken to a local hospital and treated with anti-venom, according to the station.
“I’m shocked that he would have that thing around his neck,” she told the station. “It could’ve bit his neck, and that would have been it. That’s just being a fool.”
Rattlesnakes, whose bites can be fatal, are found in many parts of California. The peak season for rattle snake bites, which occur about 800 times a year in California, is from April to October, state officials say.
(Reuters)
UNDERWATER WEDDING HONOURS CHRIST STATUE
Kimberly Triolet and Jorge Rodriguez exchanged their wedding vows underwater beside a 9-foot statue of Jesus. The Miami couple were wed beneath the waves on August 25 to help mark the 50th anniversary of the installation of the Christ of the Deep statue. The bronze sculpture is a subsea icon in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary.
For the traditional wedding kiss, the bride and groom removed their SCUBA breathing mouthpieces. The 9-foot-tall statue was submerged on August 25, 1965. It became a symbol for Key largo’s John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park, created in 1960 as America’s first underwater preserve. It is now part of the sanctuary. The statue is a replica of the Italian ‘Christ of the Abyss’ that was placed in a shallow bay near Portofino, Italy, in 1954.
(AP)
SANTA GOES BUST OVER FINNISH TAX BIll
Finland’s Santa Claus Office has been declared bankrupt over unpaid taxes after a sharp drop in visits from recession-hit Russians, once the centre’s best customers. But Managing Director Jarmo Kariniemi said he believed the company, which employs around 20 people, could yet avoid closure over its 200,000 euro ($223,980) tax bill.
“We have one more week to come up with the money. I’m confident that we can handle this,” said Kariniemi, whose firm offers the chance to be photographed with Santa Claus for a fee.
The Santa Claus Office, one of several Santa-themed businesses in lapland, had some 300,000 visitors last year and revenues of about 2 million euros. Japanese tourists have replaced Russians as the centre’s leading customers, as sanctions imposed over Moscow’s role in the Ukraine crisis and a sharp decline in the price of Russia’s major export, oil, have hit its economy hard.
(Reuters)