Photo of the day.- October 1rst

A 500 euros fine for an Italian

For shuting the cat of his wife out in the balcony

Zigonet

Italy.- A man was sentenced to pay a fine of more than 500 euros after having shut the cat of his wife out in the balcony of the apartment.

Allessandro Marchesi would have locked the animal outside because this one had urinated on his suitcase.

When she came back home, Ms Marchesi had a violent fight with the man after discovering that her cat had been expulsed outside the apartment.

She contacted the members of an animal’s protection company, whose lawyers took the matter to justice.

The tribunal finally sentenced the man to pay a fine of 500 euros to his wife Laura.

The money will cover the veterinary costs and the emotional damages caused to the pet and the owner.

Photo of the day.- October 2

Elephants strolling around in a Zambia hotel

The Mfuwe Lodge welcomes special guests

Telegraph / Picture Mfuwe Lodge

It’s not everyday that you see a wild elephant standing next to you at the reception of a hotel.
But in the Mfuwe Lodge in the South Luangwa National Park in Zambia, the sight of one or even ten elephants strolling around the lobby is a regular occurrence.

Unwittingly built on the elephant’s traditional path in 1998, the Mfuwe Lodge stands directly en-route to this elephant herd’s favourite food - wild mangoes.

Andy Hogg, 44, Director at the Bushcamp Company that runs the Mfuwe Lodge, has lived in the South Luangwa national park since 1982.

But in his 26 years of dealing with wild animals in the Zambian national park, Andy has never seen such intimate interaction between man and beast.
This is the only place in the world where elephants freely get so close to humans, says the 44-year-old.

The elephants start coming through base camp in late November of each year to eat the mangoes from our trees.

Photo of the day.- October 7

First picture of Bao Xishun’s baby

The world’s tallest man became world’s tallest father

Reuters/ pictureMax PPP

The world’s tallest man, China’s Bao Xishun, became the world’s tallest father this week with the birth of his first child, a boy whose initial height seems a compromise between his gigantic dad and average-sized mum.

Although slightly taller than average for newborn children, Bao’s boy came up well short of the 29.5 inches (75 centimeters) claimed as a record birth length last year, also in China.

Bao is quite happy. The baby is healthy and a normal size, the hospital’s senior doctor Zhang told Reuters.
Bao, a 7-foot-9-inch herdsman from Inner Mongolia, last year married Xia Shujuan, a pygmy by contrast at 5-foot-6 inches.

I hope he or she can be about 2 meters tall, Bao, 57, said last year about his wishes for a child. Then he or she can play basketball.

Photo of the day.- October 8

Naked swimmer evades police in Tokyo palace moat

He got the attention of the passers-by

Reuters

A bald, naked man who said he was a British tourist went swimming in the moat of Japan’s Imperial Palace on Tuesday, climbing the palace wall, throwing rocks and splashing water at police before being taken into custody.

Television footage showed the tall man getting out of the water at one point, chasing police with a rock and a plastic construction site pole.

He then went back to the murky water and swam across to the other side of the moat, climbing up the 8-metre (9-yard) stone wall of the palace.He was caught by two policemen, after a chase media said lasted for an hour and a half.

I’ve never heard of anyone doing such a thing, an unidentified man at the scene told TV Tokyo. He must be a bit crazy.

Television showed passers-by gathering around the moat and watching the chase, giggling and taking photos on mobile phones.

Photo of the day.- October 9

Cargo plane flies 370 penguins to safety

After they mysteriously washed up on Brazil’s equatorial beaches

AP

More than 370 penguins that mysteriously washed up on Brazil’s equatorial beaches were flown south on a huge air force cargo plane and released closer to the frigid waters they call home, animal advocates said on Monday.

Onlookers cheered as the young Magellanic penguins were set free on a beach in southern Brazil and scampered into the ocean, the International Fund for Animal Welfare said in a statement.

It called the penguin release the largest ever in South America.

The penguins were among nearly 1,000 that have washed up on Brazil’s northeastern coast in recent months, said group spokesman Chris Cutter. About 20 per cent of the penguins died and the rest were not healthy enough send back.

The penguins, which had been kept at an animal rehabilitation centre in the northeastern city of Salvador, were flown on an air force C130 turboprop plane usually used for heavy military cargo to southern Brazil and set free on Saturday…

Photo of the day.- October 13

Blonde sues L’Oréal for becoming brunette

She claims l’Oréal put brown hair dye in a box labeled as blonde

Zigonet / Picture Legally Blond

A blonde woman’s lawsuit, claiming L’Oreal Inc. ruined her social life after one of its hair-dye products turned her into a brunette, was thrown out of court Monday when a Connecticut judge ruled it didn’t pass the strand test.

A Superior Court judge said Charlotte Feeney of Stratford never proved her allegation that L’Oreal put brown hair dye in a box labeled as blonde.

Feeney had claimed she was so traumatized after she accidentally used the wrong color dye and found she couldn’t return to her natural blonde hue, that she needed anti-depressants.

She also said she had to wear hats and stay home because she suffered from headaches and anxiety, not to mention that she missed the attention blondes receive.

Photo of the day.- October 15

Lingerie Football League

A Special Football League

Mike Seely

An offshoot of the uber-popular Lingerie Bowl halftime show that’s appeared during Super Bowls past, there’s now a fledgling league of extraordinary women who will play tackle football against one another in their underwear.

Tryouts for the Seattle team, the Mist, are this Friday at Greenlake, although official league play won’t start for another year and games will be played indoors, ala arena football. Then there will be a party on Saturday night at Venom, where the public an meet the lucky 12 in full uniform. Fully-clothed details after the jump. It’ll be really interesting to see how this goes over in Seattle.

Horizon Productions requests your coverage of the Lingerie Football League’s (LFL) Seattle Mist mini-camp try-out on Friday, October 3rd at Greenlake Field. The Super Bowl halftime special called ‘Lingerie Bowl’ has become one of television’s most watched properties and apart of Super Bowl Sunday festivities for millions worldwide.

Due to the overall viewership/commercial success’ of the past Lingerie Bowls, a new professional football league has formed called the Lingerie Football League (LFL) with 10 franchises across the country which include Los Angeles, Phoenix, San Diego, Seattle, Dallas, Chicago, New England, Atlanta, Miami and Tampa.

Photo of the day.- October 16

A Chimpanzee mom of two white tigers

A cute relationship

Daily Mail / Picture Barry Bland, Barcroft Media

When two white tiger cubs were born during a hurricane they had to be separated from their mother after their sanctuary flooded.

However they have since found an unlikely surrogate mother in chimpanzee Anjana, who has taken on the role of caring for the cubs.

These adorable images will melt even the most cynical of hearts.

The two-year-old chimp has been helping keeper China York care for the 21-day-old cubs at The Institute of Greatly Endangered and Rare Species (TIGERS) in South Carolina.

Mitra and Shiva, were born during Hurricane Hannah, said Dr Bhagavan, founder of TIGERS.

During that time everything flooded in the sanctuary and they had to be moved into the house as their mother became stressed.

It was important for their safety that they were separated.

Placed into the care of infant animal care giver China and her chimpanzee companion, Anjna, the cubs have become almost inseparable from their new motherly figures.

Photo of the day.- October 22

New therapy: Massages with snakes

A new…special relaxation way

Lemon Drop / Picture Getty Images

We’ve heard of the fish pedicure and the butt facial, but one spa treatment gives new meaning to making your skin crawl

At Ada Barak’s Carnivorous Plant Farm in northern Israel, patrons lie on a massage table while Barak places snakes all over their bodies.

The size of the snakes depends on the type of massage : large snakes alleviate deeper muscle tensions, smaller ones create a fluttering effect.

Barak, who began offering the service at the Talmey El’Azar tourist attraction last year, believes that the relaxing power of the $80 massage comes from the customer’s initial fear and then subsequent flood of relief upon discovering that the snakes are not only harmless but, yes, silky smooth.

Photo of the day.- October 23

Artist wins gold and silver in the culinary Olympic games

Thanks to her wonderful creations

Metro.uk/ Picture DR

Michelle Wibowo celebrated a double triumph in the Patisserie Showpiece section of the International Culinary Olympics.

She cooked up a storm with a lifesize hound dog-shaped sugar sculpture, which won her gold, and picked up silver for a cake of Elizabeth I.

It took Ms Wibowo four days and 20kg (44lb) of sugar paste to make the dog.
She said: It’s really heavy. I got the inspiration from the Elvis song You Ain’t Nothing But A Hound Dog.

It was fun making it and putting on little details like the drool.

It was the first time the 30-year-old, who is a trained architect turned cake maker, had attended the Olympics in Erfurt, central Germany. About 1,600 cooks from more than 50 countries battled for the culinary crown.

She won’t have much time to bask in her Olympic glory though – she has been commissioned to make a 120kg (265lb) cow for a wedding and a tasty version of London’s Museum of Childhood.

Photo of the day.- October 27

Manuel Uribe married his girlfriend

The Mexican who was the fattest man of the world

Times Online / Picture Notimex

It was a Big Fat Mexican Wedding with a low-calorie reception when the world’s fattest man married his long-term girlfriend in Mexico on Sunday.

Manuel Uribe, 43, wed hairdresser Claudia Solis, fulfilling a birthday wish for the Mexican man who has shed an enormous 570 pounds (230 kg) from his former weight of 94 stone (590kg) over the past 12 months.

Despite his impressive weight loss, Mr Uribe, named the ’World’s Fattest Man’ by the Guinness Book of Records in 2007, remains confined to his bed which he has not been able to leave in the past four years.
But that didn’t stop him making the 30-minute trip to the civil ceremony at a makeshift altar in a local town hall in his home town of Monterrey.

The former car parts dealer was transported to the wedding on his specially-reinforced four-poster bed, draped with cream and gold and adorned in bright sunflowers, on the back of a truck.

Dressed in a white satin shirt and with a sheet covering his legs, Mr Uribe smiled broadly, gave the thumbs up and waved to passers-by as the truck headed towards the wedding.
His bride, wearing in a strapless ivory satin dress, a tiara and holding a bouquet of fresh lilies, looked equally as excited, smiling for the swarm of international photographers.

As the couple was declared husband and wife, Mr Ubide broke into tears.

Photo of the day.- October 29

Man sells wife on internet

On a Rumanian website specialising in used cars

Crazy Funny/ Okazzi.ro

A Romanian man got fed up of his wife nagging and put her up for sale on a website specialising in used cars.

The ad that he put on the website www.okazii.ro reads: Wife for sale. Model 1983, good condition. Full option, nice suspensions, spacious boot, second owner.

Price is negotiable, comes with three-year-old and five-year-old accessories. Seriousness demanded.

He was hoping to get around $6,000,000 but has lowered his price to $4,700 for a quick sale. ( nice discount don´t you agree ?)

So far he had received few unacceptable offers such as low price or buyers wanted to buy her in instalments.