Fun in the News:
I remember a newspaper article once about the elderly Maurice (or something similar) who had a "funny turn" while on his electric mobility scooter and jammed the throttle to the max. His Wife was quoted saying how she desperately tried to keep up with him...but as she was also very elderly she could not. He was picked up by the Police motoring down a dual carriageway (which is a small freeway).
"Plates and furniture were reportedly used as weapons after a mass brawl broke on a British cruise ship. The alleged fight took place as P&O's Britannia returned to Southampton from a week-long trip to Norway's fjords. Good Morning Britain journalist Richard Gaisford, who was on board, said he had been told the incident was sparked by a passenger taking offence at another holidaymaker dressed as a clown."
Between 19 and 21 December 2018, Gatwick Airport was closed to all flights after sightings of small drones being flown near the airport's southern perimeter. As a precaution, all aircraft movements were halted in case the drones were part of a plot to bring down an airliner. From those initial sightings the whole thing descended into farce very rapidly. Police eventually confessed that most of the drone sightings after the initial ones were probably caused by them flying their own drone around in a fruitless attempt to spot the rogue craft.
The league table near the bottom in this one. Played 34. Points.....negative seven.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-49082796
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-49082796
TV Interview of a scientist about the Planet of the Apes reboot some years back. They were asked were the Apes realistic? They replied “No” and explained that in the Movie they regularly knocked out their human captors so that they could escape...whereas real Apes would have horribly disembowelled the humans instead. Hollywood for once greatly toning down the violence levels...
News Article about mosquitoes :
“I don’t know if mosquitoes get drunk, but we see it with fruit flies,” says McAlister. “They do get drunk but they do have very high tolerance. In smaller doses they get very hyperactive – and flirty. And they get less choosy about their partners as well.
Give them a larger dose and they just pass out."
........Sounds pretty much like humans then!
A nice tale of 2 sisters:
Not possible to make this one up in a million years. Was number one on the BBC news site that day:
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-bristol-41167296
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-bristol-41167296