Bunny Love
Another one of those crazy animal stories now from the Metro website, is all about a 47-year-old western, lowland gorilla called Samantha, who was very depressed and lonely after the death of her long-term partner Rudy.
Being too old to place with other gorillas, the zoo staff at Erie Zoo in Pennsylvania, USA, decided to put a Dutch rabbit called Panda in with her to see how they got on.
“Right off the bat, they hit it off,” explained zoo director Cindy Kreider.
According to zoo staff, it is always beneficial to have animals sharing space, as long as they are not dangerous to one another, being able to observe and interact is good for both beasties.
The aging Samantha is often seen dropping hand down to the rabbit to give it a stroke, and they even share their food with each other.
The zoo is extremely pleased with the result of their experiment, and the public seem to love watching the pair, “It was amazing to see, and the reaction from the public has been amazing too. Please are intrigued by it,” zoo executive Scott Mitchell told the local press.
FCB Arms Smuggling?
It has been our pleasure to report on some of the world’s most ridiculous stories, but I don’t believe that I have said, “this one really is the stupidest,” for at least a month… well try and get your head round this one:
A national television channel in the troubled country of Syria has been using footage of a FC Barcelona game against Real Madrid, with the commentator explaining that the formation and play represented an arms smuggling plot.
Madder than a bag of frogs? I told you! Well, in one of the clips, Lionel Messi is dribbling the ball around a gaggle of Real Madrid players before a perfectly placed pass to Pedro, who duly slots the ball into the net. At several points in the clip the commentator stops the action and claims that the position of the players represents arms smuggling routes to the Syrian rebels with the players representing the smugglers and the ball is the actual location of the weapons.
And that brilliant pass by Messi? Well that, according to the delusional commentator indicates that the weapons are in Dir al-Zur.
Now, I am no Syria expert, but I don’t believe for one moment that the Syrian people would pay any heed to such rubbish, and I’m sure they probably laughed as much as the rest of the world (but quietly, at home, obviously.)
Facebook Found Out
Love it or hate it, Facebook has had a huge impact on our society. However, it has also had a huge impact on one man in particular, Alan L. O’Neill.
Mr. O’Neill married a woman in 2001 and then left her in 2009. He then changed his name and got married again and settled down to his new life… hoping to forget that he had failed to divorce his first wife.
No such luck… when wife number one got a prompt from Facebook, with their ‘People You May Know’ feature which showed her that her ex was now remarried.
With one quick click, wife number one was looking at wife number two’s photos, including one of her Ex standing with wife number two behind a wedding cake.
So it was that corrections officer Alan L. O’Neill was charged with bigamy. With a history of altercations between the first wife and her Ex and even a complaint made against her for an attack on the woman who was later to become wife number two, it was inevitable that wife number one would ‘grass’ on him.
Confused? Me too… let’s just stay off Facebook and mind our own business.