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 New population of world’s rarest fish discovered off Tasmanian coast ... A team of divers from IMAS and the citizen science project Reef Life Survey (RLS) have discovered a new population of what is believed to be the world’s rarest fish. Red Handfish (Thymichthys politus) are found only off south east Tasmania and until last week only one remaining population of around 20-40 individuals had been identified. [hidden image - please register] The new site, which will not be disclosed until management options can be discussed, also contains an estimated 20-40 individuals and is a number of kilometres away from the previously known population in Frederick Henry Bay. Each site covers just 50 metres by 20 metres - about the size of two tennis courts - as the range of the handfish is limited by the fact it walks on the seafloor instead of swimming. The new population was identified after a member of the public reported seeing an individual handfish, with a team of seven divers spending two days searching the area. |
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 Noise coming from car engine turns out to be king cobra ... A man who heard a strange sound coming from the engine of his car in Thailand took a look under the hood and came face to face with a king cobra. Thaichai Kongnimit, 55, said his Nissan was parked outside of his Surat Thani province home overnight Wednesday and he heard the noise Thursday when he was preparing to drive to the store. [hidden image - please register] Thaichai said he popped open the hood and quickly slammed it shut again when he came face to face with a 15-foot king cobra. "The cobra could have killed me. I opened the bonnet to look down into the engine and I was about [12 inches] from its face," he said. [hidden image - please register] Thaichai called local authorities, who summed snake catcher Tanawat Num to the scene. Tanawat said the capture went smoothly and the snake will be safely released back into the wild. ''It is rare that we see a king cobra this big," he said. |
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At Japan’s suicide cliffs, he's walked more than 600 people back from the edge ... Almost no one jumps on rainy days. They jump when the sun returns and the masses step outside, reminding them of their misery. They jump during financial crises and in the early spring, when Japanese schools open and the pressures of life converge. Yukio Shige's routine, though, is the same regardless of the weather. Nearly every day, he clambers across the high basalt columns of the Tojinbo cliffs, the Sea of Japan thrashing 80 feet below. He peers into binoculars, seeking hunched figures on distant rocks, ready to talk them down. In 15 years, he's walked 609 people back from the edge. [hidden image - please register] Shige worked as a police officer for 42 years, and at Tojinbo, his final posting, he frequently had to remove corpses from the waves. In 2003, he spotted an elderly couple on a bench and approached them. They said they owned a bar in Tokyo and were deeply in debt; they planned to jump at sunset. Hi called his colleagues, who took them to the local welfare bureau. But the police then sent the couple away, and five days later, they hanged themselves in Niigata, a neighboring prefecture. [hidden link - please register] |
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Beggar bullying people for money caught by police with £500,000 in his pockets ... The man was threatening people who would not hand him money outside the Resecentrum bus and train station in Uppsala, 50 miles north of Swedish capital Stockholm. When apprehended by officers, bank notes began tumbling from his jacket pockets as they discovered he was carrying approximately six million krona - around £535,000. [hidden image - please register] Police chief Jale Poljarevius said: "I have never heard of so much money in a situation like this. There were just more and more bundles. "Anyone who walks around with six million in cash will be a suspect of crime." The largest note in Sweden is 1,000 krona, meaning he had at least 6,000 notes. It took officers more than a day to count it all. [hidden image - please register] A spokesperson for Uppsala Police said the 55-year-old Swedish man was trying to get pennies for enough money to get a train ticket to his home in the west of the country. She added: "He was arrested on suspicion of money laundering. The prosecutor is carrying out an investigation to see whether he will be freed or appear in court in a few days. "We don't know whether he got this money through begging, if he won it in a lottery or it is the proceeds of crime.” [hidden link - please register] |
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 Search for buried treasure linked to Illinois man's death at Yellowstone ... Last summer, 53-year-old Jeff Murphy was hiking in Yellowstone National Park when he disappeared. Park investigators found his body on June 9, where Murphy had fallen 500 feet from Turkey Pen Peak, after accidentally stepping into a chute. [hidden image - please register] But he wasn't on just any hike. He was looking for a treasure box of gold and jewels worth up to $2 million, buried somewhere in the Rocky Mountains by an eccentric millionaire named Forrest Fenn. Fenn, an art dealer and millionaire in his 80s, lives in Santa Fe, N.M. In his self-published memoir, Fenn included a poem that supposedly leads to the treasure he hid in the mountains. [hidden image - please register] "The ornate, Romanesque box is 10-by-10 inches and weighs about 40 pounds when loaded," NPR's John Burnett reported in 2016. "Fenn has only revealed that it is hidden in the Rocky Mountains, somewhere between Santa Fe and the Canadian border at an elevation above 5,000 feet. It's not in a mine, a graveyard or near a structure." Murphy is the fourth man to die while searching for the chest. [hidden link - please register] |
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 Police release security video of unusual skeleton theft ... Police in Australia have a bone to pick with a group of thieves caught on camera taking a fiberglass skeleton from a building. [hidden image - please register] South Australia Police posted a video [hidden link - please register] showing three men taking the skeleton from a building in Rundle Mall, located in Adelaide's Central Business District, and boarding a bus with their new bony buddy. [hidden image - please register] "Do you have a skeleton in your closet? Police are investigating the theft of a skeleton from the CBD and have released CCTV of the suspects," police wrote. Investigators are asking anyone who recognizes the suspects to contact police. |
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 Farmer believes this massive poster of a porn star in his field has boosted his crops ... A farmer has put up a massive poster of a porn star in his field to keep his crops safe. Chenchu Reddy says his alternative scarecrow works and he even believes the picture to be magic as it's helped his crops. [hidden image - please register] The 45-year-old is growing crops in 10 acres of farmland in Andhra Pradesh, India, and said they have been attracting the attention from villagers and passersby. So to ward off "their evil eye" he decided to put up a poster of the erotic actress Sunny Leone. [hidden image - please register] The poster reads: "Hey, don't cry or feel jealous of me!" and has a picture of the porn star posing in a red bikini. And speaking to the Hindustan Times , the superstitious farmer says his use of boob power has worked. [hidden image - please register] Now nobody is looking at his bumper cauliflower and cabbage crop as all attention is now on the scantily clad woman. He said: "Year after year, I would suffer losses because of poor yeild. [hidden image - please register] This year, I have a good crop on 10 acres. This has been attracting unnecessary attention of villagers and passersby." He added: "To ward off their evil eye, I thought of this idea of putting up the big flax poster of Sunny Leone a couple of days ago. [hidden image - please register] "The trick has worked. nobody is looking at my crop now." [hidden link - please register] |
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Thieving monkey snatches tourist's wallet ... A visitor to a Chinese mountain filmed a mischievous wild monkey pouring through the contents of a wallet it snatched from another tourist. [hidden image - please register] The video, filmed Tuesday, shows the monkey sitting on a fence at Mount Emei in Leshan, Sichuan province, and taking cash and other items out of a wallet. The filmer said the monkey snatched the wallet from another tourist, who can be heard shouting as the simian discards the contents of the billfold. The monkey eventually jumps down from the fence and flees with the wallet. |
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 BRONX FAMILY GETS CHANCE TO THANK A 5-YEAR-OLD'S MTA VALENTINE ... A heartwarming Valentine's Day story in the Bronx shows love comes in all different shapes and sizes — and in all modes of transportation.Stella, a 5-year-old living in the borough, stands on the platform at the Longwood Station every day. Her father says she waves to the operators, who then sometimes wave back and even honk as the 6 train rolls in. On this Valentine's Day, the train came in unusually slow and approached Stella and her father. [hidden image - please register] An operator's window opened and, to Stella's surprise, she was given a box of chocolates. The family had been trying to identify the operator to give him a full thank you for the kind gesture. Later Wednesday, NY1 found out that Stella's Valentine was Joe Moreno of Pelham Bay. [hidden image - please register] "To the average New Yorker, we're invisible — but not to Stella!" the 47-year-old train operator told NY1. Moreno said he was buying chocolate for his girlfriend and daughter and decided to get one for Stella as well. Stella's father apologizes to those who may have had a slightly delayed 6 train this morning. |
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Shanghai police releases surveillance footage of dumbest burglars ever ... On February 14, the official Weibo account of the Shanghai Public Security Bureau released a video on its channel that is going viral on Chinese social media today. The video was captured through surveillance cameras after midnight. [hidden image - please register] The video shows two burglars attempting to break in when something goes terribly wrong – see the video for yourself, although some viewer discretion is advised. “If all burglars were like this, we wouldn’t need to work overtime,” the Shanghai Public Security Bureau writes. “You might not need to work overtime, but the nurses and doctors at the hospital surely will,” some netizens reply. The video was watched 4 million times shortly after it was published on Weibo. Further information on how the unfortunate burglar is currently doing has not been released. [hidden link - please register] |
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Celebrity photos that were the last known to be taken before they died ... It's easy to think of famous people as somehow immortal, but beneath the fame and the glamour they're just as human as the rest of us. They might live in a different world than most, but when the time comes they all go to the same place as everybody else. In homage to these icons of music, film and sport, [hidden link - please register] has compiled this list of the final photographs taken of many of the most famous people who have ever lived. From Hollywood actors and rock stars and sporting heroes, the pictures below serve to remind us that life is short and death is certain, so make the most of it while you can. Robin Williams, 63, 1951-2014 [hidden image - please register] Freddie Mercury, 45, 1946-1991 [hidden image - please register] Carrie Fisher, 60, 1956-2016 [hidden image - please register] Jimi Hendrix, 27, 1942-1970 [hidden image - please register] John Lennon, 40, 1940-1980 [hidden image - please register] Muhammad Ali, 74, 1942-2016 [hidden image - please register] Marilyn Monroe, 36, 1926-1962 [hidden image - please register] Martin Luther King, Jr., 39, 1929-1968 [hidden image - please register] Amy Winehouse, 27, 1983-2011 [hidden image - please register] Michael Jackson, 50, 1958-2009 [hidden image - please register] Bob Marley, 36, 1945-1981 [hidden image - please register] Paul Walker, 40, 1973-2013 [hidden image - please register] Kurt Cobain, 27, 1967 – 1994 [hidden image - please register] John Candy, 43, 1950-1994 [hidden image - please register] Whitney Houston, 48, 1963 – 2013 [hidden image - please register] Jim Morrison, 27, 1943-1971 [hidden image - please register] Elvis Presley, 42, 1935-1977 [hidden image - please register] Prince, 57, 1958-2016 [hidden image - please register] Tupac Shakur, 25, 1971-1996 [hidden image - please register] George Harrison, 58, 1943-2001 [hidden image - please register] Brittany Murphy, 32, 1977 – 2009 [hidden image - please register] Frank Zappa, 52, 1940-1993 [hidden image - please register] Cliff Burton, 24, 1962-1986 [hidden image - please register] Dale Earnhardt, 49, 1951-2001 [hidden image - please register] Keith Moon, 32, 1946-1978 [hidden image - please register] We remember ... |
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Driver tried to cheat police with help a mannequin ... The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said a traffic officer ticketed a van driver caught using the carpool lanes with a mannequin passenger. The RCMP said a Port Mann Traffic Services officer on Highway 1 in the Langley/Surrey area of British Columbia spotted a white van speeding and crossing into the high-occupancy vehicle lanes without signaling. [hidden image - please register] The officer stopped the van and discovered the driver's passenger was a mannequin dressed in sunglasses and a hoodie. "This is one of those cases where the RCMP got their mannequin," police said. "The passenger exercised the right to remain silent." "The driver of the vehicle was issued several tickets for the alleged offenses and the passenger, who did not protest, was given a ride to her new home...in a police car," police said. [hidden image - please register] Police said users of the HOV lanes must have at least two actual humans in the vehicle. "In this case, the mannequin was seized to prevent the continuation of the offense of Illegal Use of HOV lane," RCMP said. |
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Sneaky dog steals pancakes — and almost burns down family's home ... The Southwick Fire Department in Massachusetts recently posted a video from a local homeowner who nearly lost everything on account of their dog's insatiable tummy. [hidden image - please register] The family wasn't home at the time, but footage taken by a home security camera shows exactly what happened. The dog is seen entering the kitchen before hopping up to nibble on pancakes that had been left on top of t he stove. In so doing, however, the unwitting pup accidentally ignited one of the gas burners, sparking a fire. As the home begins to fill with smoke, the guilty dog and her canine companion try their best to play it cool. Luckily, the house was equipped with a monitored alarm system, so first responders were soon on the scene. [hidden link - please register] |
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Dear friends,
I also wanted to bring my contribution to this beautiful page: While customers of a famous restaurant are eating lunch quietly look what happens... [hidden link - please register] Kind regard. Johnbirracchio |
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The live tiger cub was wanted to be mailed ... Tiger cub found in mail box by Mexican sniffer dog. Mexican inspectors have found tigers in all sorts of situations: on leashes, in neighbors' yards and wandering the streets. But the office for environmental protection announced a new twist on Wednesday: someone tried to express-mail a tiger cub. |
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