It wasn’t Natalie Portman who kissed Thor!
Natalie Portman recently revealed that she was unavailable to film the kissing scene found at the end of the Thor: The Dark World credits. Rather than eliminate that moment, Chris Hemsworth recruited his wife, actress Elsa Pataky, to stand in for the actress. Hemsworth’s wife — who has starred in the two most recent Fast & Furious movies — donned Portman’s attire and stepped into the role of Jane Foster.
“It was for reshoots (after the film was finished), and (Hemsworth) was working in Hong Kong and I couldn’t get there because I was working on my own film,” Portman said. “And so they put his wife in my wig and costume — that’s why it was so passionate.” Director Alan Taylor pulled it off well, seeing as no one has pointed out any glaring inconsistencies with the love scene. (New York Daily News)
Family Goes On Trip, Man Takes Their Home
A family was in for surprise after a trip when it found a stranger living in its house. Robert said that he filed what is called a “quiet title,” laying claim to the house, which he said, was abandoned. “When you abandon something, you forfeit all your rights and title to it, and title is not a piece of paper, title is when you grab it and say ‘Mine,’” said Carr.
The family is in the process of going to court in the hopes of getting their home back. Police said Carr has pulled similar stunts to lay claim to at least two other houses. (Huffington Post)
Man Has Sex With Goat, Faces Victim In Court
The victim of a sexual assault showed up to court to face her attacker. She was a goat. Katana Kitsao Gona, a 28-year-old man from Kenya, was sentenced to 10 years in jail after admitting he had sex with a goat.
The goat Gona was convicted of sexually abusing was present, brought there by prosecutors as evidence in the case. Gona was caught committing the crime last week, Prosecuting Chief Inspector Jimmy Kema said. The neighbour told prosecutors he went to urinate behind a bush, when he noticed clothes hanging on a tree. He investigated and found Gona, naked, having sex with the goat.
Though Gona asked for a pardon in court, saying he had a disabled wife who depended on him, Magistrate Mrs. Muthoni Nzibe gave him the 10-year sentence — a record sentence in that court for bestiality. Gona isn’t the only busted goat abuser to make the news in recent months. In August, UK man Robert Newman served a six-week sentence after admitting he had sex with a goat. He also had to register as a sex offender.(Huffington Post)
Eagle Steals Camera, Records Stunning 70-Mile Flight For You
A brazen bird snatched a video camera that was recording crocodiles in northwest Australia and captured fascinating footage of its 110 km journey across the country’s remote landscape.
Wildlife rangers in Western Australia’s Kimberly region released video that reveals the sea eagle’s caper. The bird’s flapping wings can be seen as it grabs the device and takes off, and the eagle later poses for a selfie, poking its face into the camera lens. Rangers set up the motion-sensor camera along the Margaret River in May, hoping to record images of crocodiles. The camera, which is about 10 to 15 cm long and 5 cm wide, disappeared soon after and the rangers figured it had fallen into the water. The rangers recently found out that the device had been found near the Mary River, about 110 km away, ranger Roneil Skeen said. When they examined the video inside, the real culprit was revealed. (AP)
‘legal personhood’ for chimps sought
A US animal rights group recently filed what it said is the first lawsuit seeking to establish the “legal personhood” of chimpanzees. The non-profit Non-human Rights Project asked a New York state court to declare a 26-year-old chimp named Tommy “a cognitively complex autonomous legal person with the fundamental legal right not to be imprisoned.” The lawsuit seeks a declaration that Tommy’s “detention” in a “small, dank, cement cage in a cavernous dark shed” in central New York is unlawful and demands his immediate release to a primate sanctuary.
Chimpanzees “possess complex cognitive abilities that are so strictly protected when they’re found in human beings,” Steven Wise, the president of Nonhuman Rights Project, said. “There’s no reason why they should not be protected when they’re found in chimpanzees,” he added. The lawsuit on Tommy’s behalf is among three the group is filing on behalf of four chimps across New York. The other chimps are Kiko, a 26-year-old chimp living on a private property in Niagara Falls, and Hercules and leo, two young male chimps used in research at Stony Brook University on long Island, the group said. (Reuters)