Amazing videos of Nik Wallenda and Woman throws alleged mistress off cliff

World's Top Five Weird, Funny and Hot News of June 24, 2013

Couple receive summons over bird feeder

 

RAMSEY, N.J., June 24 (UPI) -- A 77-year-old New Jersey man whose hanging bird feeder caused his wife to receive a summons said feeding birds is one of his few remaining pleasures in life. Alfred Rockefeller, 77, said he and his wife, Annette, 66, put up the hanging bird feeder last year after Ramsey borough officials told them they could not spread birdseed on the ground, The Record of Hackensack, N.J., reported Monday. However, the couple said they received a summons bearing Annette's name and dated May 2 ordering her to appear in court Tuesday on a charge of feeding

wildlife, which can carry a charge of $250 to $500. The borough contends complaints have been lodged by multiple neighbors about the feeder attracting deer, ducks, squirrels and other animals to the area. The couple said Leo Egan, the borough's environmental health specialist, told them the wire wreath-style feeder contains peanuts, which are not appropriate for birds. "He stated emphatically that birds do not eat peanuts," Alfred Rockefeller said of Egan. "I feel like we're getting picked on over here," Annette Rockefeller said. "To me it's like, what's going to be next? I'm going to be walking around my yard in shorts and be told I'm ugly and bringing down property values."Egan said the bird feeder was causing numerous complaints. "There were a lot of animals ... being attracted," Egan said. "The animals don't recognize the yard line between one house and another. There was spillover, and other neighbors had damage to their gardens from the animals. They were putting in expensive plantings and getting them decimated."

 

Nik Wallenda completes Grand Canyon high wire walk

LITTLE COLORADO RIVER, Ariz. – Daredevil Nik Wallenda completed a historic high-wire walk on a 2-inch (5-cm) steel cable over the Grand Canyon on Sunday and was greeted by wild cheers after his hair-raising stunt. Wallenda, the self-described “King of



the High Wire,” took 22 minutes and 54 seconds to walk 1,400 feet (427 metres) across the crimson-hued canyon with just a distant ribbon of the Little Colorado River beneath him. The event was broadcast live around the world. Wallenda, the first person to cross the canyon, made the walk without a tether or safety net.  Wallenda could be heard praying almost constantly during the walk, murmuring “Thank you, Jesus.” He kissed the ground when he reached the other side.

“It took every bit of me to stay focused that entire time,” Wallenda said. “My arms are aching like you wouldn’t believe.” He said he stopped and crouched down twice, first because of the wind, the second because the cable had picked up an unsettling rhythm. He spat on his hands and rubbed it on the sole of his shoe for grip as the cable had gathered dust.  Wallenda said the walk was stressful. But he also said the view, from 1,500 feet (457 metres) above the snaking river, was “breathtaking.”

Al Qaida magazine confused with Esquire at Guantanamo hearing

 

GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba - An Arabic-English interpreter confused the al Qaida magazine Inspire with the gentlemen's magazine Esquire during a pretrial hearing in the Guantanamo war crimes tribunal on Friday. The mix-up came in a hearing for five prisoners who could face execution if convicted of launching the Sept. 11, 2001, hijacked plane attacks that killed 2,976 people and propelled the United States into a global war against al Qaida.

 A week-long hearing has focused on whether military and intelligence agents at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base snooped into legal documents and attorney-client conversations that are supposed to be confidential. Defense attorneys said stringent restrictions on their communications had interfered with their attempts to prepare a defense.  The outgoing legal adviser for the Guantanamo detention operation, Navy Captain Thomas Welsh, testified that attorney-client mail was carefully screened to prevent the introduction of physical and informational contraband. He said the rules were tightened after a defense lawyer tried to send a copy of Inspire magazine to one of the defendants. "I'm told that the translation is wrong," interrupted defense attorney Cheryl Bormann, who was not the source of the intercepted magazine. She said the interpreter translating Welsh's testimony for the defendants had identified the contraband publication to them as Esquire. That magazine describes its focus as "beautiful women, men's fashion, best music, drink recipes."

 

Kids play centre allegedly used for sex parties

 

Parents in Cranbourne, Australia, are angry after a children's play centre was allegedly used for sex parties. Over the weekend, parents say they discovered advertisements for swingers to attend a party at a location featuring "a laser light show, fog machine, giant ball pit and jumping castle," the Melbourne Herald Sun reported.  The angry parents gathered at Casey Kids Play House demanding answers, the paper reported. One mother told the Herald Sun she'd hosted a party for her children's birthdays at the facility. "We're worried about what they could have been exposed to," Stacey Derks told the paper. The City of Cranbourne is investigating. A post on the centre's Facebook page says along with hosting kids parties, the centre is also used for private events with staff not present.

Video of Woman throws alleged mistress off cliff

Cheaters beware. There have been plenty of songs written about cheating lovers, but we still haven’t heard one that goes, ‘If you cheat with my man/ I’m throwing you off a cliff.’ After this video went viral this week, that might change. In the clip, which aired on Peruvian television, Lissette Lupo Mamani confronts her husband’s alleged lover and after the two get into a heated argument, she throws his supposed mistress off a cliff by her ponytail. Security camera footage shows the woman’s husband walking away just as the fight starts.