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2019 BITS
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25th, Wacky PIECES

December World A Georgia couple shared

culprit behind the theft of their
| World doorbell camera footage of the
Christmas decorations - a bah
EXAMINER News humbug deer.
News
Ashley and William Pratt said
the Christmas decorations out-
side their Dunwoody home
IRISH went missing Saturday, so they
checked the security camera
footage.
The Ring camera recorded a
Snake stows away on flight from family in the Canary Islands in 2004 and Wayne Sherlock, 38, was named the deer dragging their decorations
Australia to New Zealand 2017. champion at the contest organized by Veg off into the nearby bushes.
A snake successfully stowed away in the Dennis and his family traveled to UK Ltd. at The Crown Inn pub in “Apparently, the deer was not
undercarriage of a plane from Australia to Newfoundland this month, taking Riggs Finglesham when he ate 33 Brussels a fan of our Christmas decora-
New Zealand, but it wasn’t given much up on a longstanding invitation for the sprouts in one minute, two more than the tions,” Ashley Pratt tweeted. C
time to enjoy its vacation. families to spend Christmas together. 31 downed by current Guinness World
A representative for Queenstown “Siobhane would be very happy,” Riggs Record holder Linus Urbanec in 2008. A reporter in Spain who was
Airport confirmed the snake was spotted said. “She wanted to celebrate Christmas, “It definitely takes a technique,” handling a segment on that
on the runway by a pilot preparing to land, everybody’s birthday, everything had to be Sherlock told Kent Online. “I just chewed country’s lottery found out she
was among the winners on live
and a Biosecurity NZ representative said a celebration. like a pig and while doing that looked TV.
the python is believed to have stowed “I really do feel that this message land- around for the smaller sprouts.” Natalia Escudero, a reporter
away in the undercarriage of a plane that ing over in Tenerife and Patrick getting Sherlock was required to use a tooth- for RTVE, was delivering a
arrived from Brisbane, Australia. this bottle and making this connection pick to skewer each sprout individually in report on the National Lottery’s
Biosecurity officers searched the plane gives me some closure. It gives me a clo- accordance with Guinness rules. annual Christmas drawing
and ensured there were no more snakes sure that she’s not far. She is always here “I kept the bowl close to my mouth and Sunday when she discovered she
hiding in the undercarriage. with us,” she said. tried to give myself five seconds at the end had won a cash prize.
It was initially reported that the snake to digest them,” he said. “I had some pains “I’m not coming into work
was decapitated with a shovel, but Woman tracks down owner of in my chest once I’d finished but washed tomorrow,” Escudero
exclaimed.
Biosecurity officials said that was not the wrapped gift found in the road them down with a pint of Fosters.” Escudero said her winning
case. A South Carolina woman was able to Veg UK said video and other documen- ticket was not one of the
“The snake appeared to still be alive brighten a family's Christmas by returning tation from the event is being submitted to $436,000 grand prize winners,
when it was retrieved by our officers. The a wrapped gift she found in the middle of a Guinness for official recognition. but rather worth $5,545 - not
officers did not decapitate the snake but it busy road. quite enough to quit her job. C
was humanely euthanized,” the represen- Lauren Harper said she was driving British woman reunited with ring
tative told Stuff.co.nz. near a Walmart and Burger King in dropped in ballot box A researcher at Canadian uni-
Greenville when she jumped out of her car A British woman who accidentally versity said he used an electron
Message in a bottle brings families to retrieve a wrapped Christmas gift she dropped a family heirloom ring into a bal- microscope to carve the world's
together for Christmas spotted in the road. lot box while casting her vote was reunited smallest “gingerbread house” in
a piece of silicon.
A cross-continental friendship being cel- The tag on the gift read: “To: Mom & with the ring by local officials. The Canadian Center for
ebrated along with Christmas in Dad, From: Kennedy.” Trafford Council said the woman, Electron Microscopy at
Newfoundland began with a message in a Harper shared photos of the gifts on Charlotte, 22, cast her vote in the Dec. 12 McMaster University said
bottle and a young girl’s tragic accident. Facebook and her post was shared thou- general election at Cloverlea Primary research associate Travis
Patrick Dennis said he found a message sands of times before someone suggested School in Timperley, near Manchester, Casagrande carved a smiling
in a bottle on the shore of Tenerife, a it looked like the gifts sent home from La England, and didn’t notice until later that snowman smaller than the width
Spanish island off the coast of West Africa, Petite Daycare. the heirloom ring given to her by her of a human hair out of silicon and
in 2002 and attempted to contact the She contacted the facility and discov- mother had vanished from her finger. etched the tiny “gingerbread
Newfoundland girl who authored the ered Kennedy is a 3-month-old and the Charlotte said she searched for the ring house” structure atop the snow-
man’s head.
note. wrapped gift was a framed footprint for but it didn’t occur to her that it could have The university said the house
The letter, signed by 5-year-old her parents. fallen into the ballot box until a friend is half the size of one that was
Siobhane Riggs, had been tossed into the “My mom still has a handprint poem at called her attention to a post on the declared the world’s smallest
water off the Nova Scotia coast and made her house from when I went to a La Petite Trafford Council’s Facebook page. when it was created last year in
its way across the ocean. in North Carolina probably 25 years ago,” “The penny dropped and I realized it France.
“I felt very very privileged and lucky,” Harper told The Telegraph newspaper. must be mine. I phoned Trafford Council “I think projects like this cre-
Dennis told CBC News. “In fact, the mes- “So, that was kind of special when I found and described the ring and they said they ate science curiosity,”
sages were addressed to ‘the lucky person.’ out it was a footprint painting from a baby had it at the Town Hall,” Charlotte said. Casagrande said. “I think for both
And I felt very lucky.” at La Petite.” She said the ring must have fallen off children and adults, it’s impor-
tant to be curious about science.
Dennis called the number on the letter Harper said she returned the gift to the when she cast her ballot. Looking into how this was made
and was told by Carolanne Riggs, daycare Thursday to be sent home with “The ring was on my index finger and leads to more interest in science,
Siobhane’s mother, that the girl had died Kennedy again. was slightly loose so it must have fallen off and that builds more science lit-
in an accident at the age of 6 earlier that as I posted my vote into the box and pulled eracy, which allows everyone to
year. British man eats world record 33 my hand away,” Charlotte said. make better decisions.”
“I didn’t believe what I was hearing,” Brussels sprouts in one minute “I am delighted to have found it, I didn’t Casagrande previously used
Dennis told VOCM. “I went from being on A participant in an eating contest at a want to face my mum’s wrath. I’m going similar methods to create a tiny
top of the world to ... absolute tragedy.” British pub broke a Guinness World to be a lot more careful in the future, Canadian flag mounted on a pole
The two struck up a friendship and Record by downing 33 Brussels sprouts in thanks to the Council for helping me with in a minuscule hole on the side of
a penny. C
Riggs ended up visiting Dennis and his one minute. this.” C