Story #1 – Stolen Pumpkins Returned Carved
Someone played a Halloween trick on at least two Virginia families, stealing pumpkins from front porches and returning them carved.
Chrissi Blasius of Manassas says that she had a basketball sized pumpkin on her front porch. It was taken and returned with: “two triangle eyes, a triangle nose and a mouth with two teeth missing.” Her neighbor, Lisa Harlow, also reported one of her pumpkins was taken during the night and returned. Her pumpkin was taken from her porch and came back with one eye carved like a star. “It’s Halloween and I guess people do strange and weird things,” Harlow said.
Story #2 – 112 Year Old Man Marries A 17 Year Old
A Somali man who claims to be 112 years old has married for the sixth time, and he hopes to have children with his 17 year old bride. Hundreds of people attended the wedding this week in the town of Guriceel in central Somalia. “Today God helped me realize my dream,” groom Ahmed Muhamed Dore said, according to The Guardian.
The bride, Safia Abdulleh, did not comment, but her family said she was “happy with her new husband” even though he is nearly a century her senior. BBC reporter Mohammed Olad Hassan, who is based in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, said Dore told him he was born in 1897 and he has a traditional birth certificate, written on a goat skin by his father. Dore has 13 children by his five previous wives. His oldest son is 80. Three of his wives have died, but the remaining two consented to the new wedding, as did the bride’s parents and the groom’s children. Altogether, Dore has 114 children and grandchildren. But he said he hopes to have more children with his new wife, who is young enough to be his great-great-granddaughter. “It is a blessing to have someone you love to take care of you,” he said. Although it’s not unusual for Somali girls to marry older men, the reports cited historians in the Horn of Africa nation as saying this wedding was the first marriage with such a great age disparity in more than a century. Dore said he and his bride are from the same village, and he waited for her to grow up. “I didn’t force her, but used my experience to convince her of my love, and then we agreed to marry,” he said.
Story #3 – Chemistry Student Blows Head Off With Exploding Gum
A chemistry student has been found dead with his jaw blown off by what is believed to be exploding chewing gum, reports have said. A forensic examination established that the chewing gum was covered with an unidentified chemical substance, thought to be some type of explosive material. The student apparently had a bizarre habit of chewing gum after dipping it into citric acid, Russian news agency Ria Novosti said. Officers found both citric acid packets and a similar looking unidentified substance, believed to be some kind of explosive material, on a table near the body, the agency continued. Investigators suspect that the student simply confused the packets and put gum covered with explosive material into his mouth. Forensic experts were to travel from Kiev to investigate the substance, as local authorities feared it may explode if transported. The 25 year old’s disfigured remains were discovered at his parent’s home in the northern Ukrainian city of Konotop, reports in the Eastern European country said. The young man, who studied at Kiev Polytechnic Institute, was working at a computer late on Saturday when the alleged explosion happened. “A loud pop was heard from the student’s room,” the city’s police chief said. “When his relatives entered the room, they saw that the lower part of the young man’s face had been blown off.”
Story #4 – Playful Dolphin Getting Bad Rap
An aggressive four year old bottlenose dolphin has been accused of bullying swimmers and waterskiers in New Zealand. Rescue services had to be called after the animal’s intimidating behaviour prevented six people from swimming back to shore in separate incidents in the past week. Moko, who weighs some 250kg and used to live off Mahia on New Zealand’s east coast, was initially praised for his friendly nature. But since making Gisborne his home in September he has trapped swimmers, overturned kayaks, tipped over waterskiers, and interfered with surf lifesaving training. Marine Science expert Professor Mark Orams has compared Moko’s personality change to humans going through puberty. He’s doing what we all do as teenagers,” he said. “He’s testing his boundaries, but he’s testing them on humans, and humans are coming off second best.” However, he expressed sympathy for the animal. “Here you’ve got a very lonely bottlenose who loves human contact, but he’s getting way too big and strong for it,” he said. The expert said he was worried the situation would get worse, with either Moko being hurt or causing major injuries. In one incident last month the dolphin stole a 16 year old boy’s surfboard while the boy was 500m offshore. Olympic kayaking double gold medallist and surf lifesaving instructor Alan Thompson said “If you don’t like the way he plays, then don’t go out in the water.”
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