Welsh ‘whale vomit’ rush
Welsh ‘whale vomit’ rush
North Wales is facing a gold rush after ‘whale vomit’ was found washed up on its beaches.
Valuable ambergris – known as floating gold – has recently been found at Rhos on Sea and Shell Island, reports the Daily Post.
Finds can be worth around £2,000 – and they could lead to a gold rush among would-be beachcombers.
Ambergris is used to produce perfume and can fetch more than £10 a gram.
It is produced when the whale has been eating squid and their parrot-like beaks have irritated the walls of its innards.
Rarely recovered on British shores, ambergris is usually found on the coasts of the United States and Australia.
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Snake shocks pregant woman
Snake shocks pregant woman
A pregnant German woman almost went into premature labour when a snake slithered into bed beside her.
Martina and Clemens Pelz, from Loerrach in Baden-Wuerttemberg, woke up to find a 4.5ft corn snake in their bed.
The 31-year-old woman, who is almost eight months pregnant, feared she had gone into premature labour when she started to get stomach pains.
Doctors treated her for shock and gave her and the baby the all clear before discharging her from hospital.
Police, who later captured the non-venomous reptile, are investigating the incident and say it is likely the snake either escaped from its owner or was deliberately set free.
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Homing pigeon’s 5,000-mile wrong turn
Homing pigeon’s 5,000-mile wrong turn
A homing pigeon got lost and ended up 5,000 miles away from her British home – on a Caribbean island.
Judy changed course while flying in a 600-mile race from Bourges, northern France to Northumberland, reports the Sun.
Instead she landed in St Eustatius in the Dutch West Indies.
Owner John Stewart, 69, from Hadston, feared she had been lost forever until he heard she had been found.
He said: “I’m glad she’s safe and in good hands – and probably having a lovely time.
“But I didn’t half get a shock when I found out where she was. I’m quite jealous really.
“I wish I was in the Caribbean rather than in Northumberland.She’s probably sunning herself on the beach.”
Mr Stewart, a member of East Chevington Homing Society, reckons Judy must have hitched most of the way on a ship
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TV’s Worst Talk Show Hosts
We know not everyone can bring the hilarity like Maury or Richard Bey, but these hosts bite the big one and we’ve got the videos to prove it.
10. Tony Danza Watching Tony Danza’s talk show is kind of like watching a spider try to get out of a wet bathtub. You kind of hope he makes it, but then you stop giving a crap and go put some damn pants on. The one redeeming element of the show was how genuinely mad he was after being cancelled, taking every chance to lampoon his own producers on-camera. So who got the last laugh, producers? Oh, right…the show is cancelled.
Virgin Mary ‘appears on turtle’
Virgin Mary ‘appears on turtle’
A Chicago woman claims the image of the Virgin Mary has appeared on the stomach of a pet turtle.
Shirley McVane, 81, says it appeared on a sand turtle bought by her grandson, reports the Chicago Sun-Times.
Shirley’s daughter, Dolly Fordyce, 58, said: “I thought we were going crazy the first time I saw it. I looked at it and said, ‘It can’t be.’ But then I looked again. I mean, you can’t deny it.”
Mrs McVane added: “She came to a holy house. I think she came to visit us so God knows she’s happy and safe.”
Dianne Dunagan, spokeswoman for the Archdiocese of Chicago, said: “If something like that causes people to think about God and pray, that’s a good thing.
“Time usually takes care of these things. If it gets to the point where people are flocking to this thing, the church will call in experts. If people forget about it, it may just fade away.”
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Ghost appears on TV
Ghost appears on TV
A woman claims she has a ghost in her TV discovered by her 18-month-old.
Tracey Taylor took a photo of her daughter Faith as she was dusting the TV.
When she got the photos developed she spotted a mysterious face on the TV screen.
She insists the TV was off and there was no one else in the room reports The Sun.
When she showed the photo to Faith she exclaimed: “That’s Ben.”
Tracey, of Lower Ince, Wigan said: “I think we should get TV ghost hunter Derek Acorah down here immediately. It really is dead weird.”
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Man saves dog thrown from window
Man saves dog thrown from window
A man was bruised but alive on Wednesday after a Saint Bernard dog thrown out a two-story window landed on him as he was walking down the street in the southern-Polish city of Sosnowiec.
The 110-pound dog was pushed out of the window by its drunken owner Monday, police said.
“The dog had a soft landing because it fell on a man,” said police spokesman Grzegorz Wierzbicki. “The dog escaped with just a few scratches.”
“The man was also more in a psychological state of shock than physically hurt,” Wierzbicki added.
The one-year-old dog, named Oskar, was placed in an animal shelter while police investigate its owners for animal abuse.
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