World's Top Five Weird, Funny and sizzling News of May 29, 2013
Top 5-Mom finds baby photos from lost roll of film on Facebook
VICTORIA, British Columbia, May 28 (UPI) -- A Canadian woman said social media reunited her with a roll of film, which contained photographs of her newborn daughter, stolen nine years ago. The canister of undeveloped film was found on a roadside near
Victoria, British Columbia, this month by Helen Maslyk, who had stopped her car to deal with a tire problem. She had the film developed and posted the photos on Facebook to find the owner, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. reported Tuesday. The photos, lost during a vehicle break-in, were discovered by their owner Ann Perry-Smith. "My jaw just dropped. There's a picture of my husband, my baby who's only weeks old at the time, and my dog,' she said. Perry-Smith said her daughter, now 9, was happy but not surprised that social media brought the family and the photos together.
Victoria, British Columbia, this month by Helen Maslyk, who had stopped her car to deal with a tire problem. She had the film developed and posted the photos on Facebook to find the owner, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. reported Tuesday. The photos, lost during a vehicle break-in, were discovered by their owner Ann Perry-Smith. "My jaw just dropped. There's a picture of my husband, my baby who's only weeks old at the time, and my dog,' she said. Perry-Smith said her daughter, now 9, was happy but not surprised that social media brought the family and the photos together.
(Source- upi.com)
Top 4-J.C. Penney kettle looks like Hitler
J.C. Penney has officially denied that a tea kettle being advertised on a billboard on the 405 Interstate near Culver City, Calif., is intended to represent Adolf Hitler, the Nazi dictator during the Second World War. The company was forced to issue a statement denying the company purposefully fashioned a teapot that resembled Hitler. Using their Twitter account, J.C. Penney responded to multiple queries about the teapot:
(Source- News Point)
Top 3-Video of Goat angry rampage (very funny)
An angry goat filmed running amok in a Brazilian town near Sao Paulo has become an unlikely internet star. The animated animal was caught on camera attacking members of the public in an unprovoked rampage last week. Local residents were spotted running scared as the irate goat charged towards them at speed. With an ominous bell jingling around the animal’s neck as a warning to anyone in its way, many of the town’s residents were forced to shield behind cars and jump over fences. One woman who approached the goat was knocked to the ground, while another couple on a moped were also charged at. The clip has racked up more than two million hits on YouTube in just a matter of days, receiving thousands of likes.
(Source-metro.co.uk)
Top 2-Union president snoozes at his desk, works two hours a day
UNION heavyweight Mark Rosenthal has a relaxing work routine. Mr Rosenthal sidles into the office at 2pm every day, eats lunch and then goes to sleep at his desk. "Then he wakes up, looks at his watch and says, 'I have to get out before the traffic gets bad.' He's usually out by 4pm after being at the office two hours," union vice president Marvin Robbins told The New York Post. Mr Rosenthal earns $156,000 a year as president of a local municipal workers union in New York - a job he has held since 1998.
He has been in the news before. In 2009, Mr Rosenthal inspired a council bill requiring jumbo-sized ambulances for obese patients after he had a stroke at City Hall. Union officials say the 400-plus-pound (more than 180kg) president racks up $1400 in food bills every month at the union's expense. Executive board members told The New York Post Mr Rosenthal significantly over-orders at eateries and takes the extra food back to his apartment. "He's always walking off with a doggie bag or extra boxes of food," said one board member. Mr Rosenthal insists he works "12-to-14-hour days", and that allegations against him are "part of a smear campaign" by political opponents within the union.
He says it's normal for executives to take "power naps", and his meetings with the sandman can also be notched up to the effects of pain medication he takes for backaches, which he has suffered since falling through a chair at McDonald's last year. "I'm 60 years old, so if I eat during my lunch hour and take a little medication, can't I close my eyes?" Mr Rosenthal said."Is it so outrageous? “The union represents 3000 workers, many of whom are among the city's lowest-paid employees. Those workers fork out more than $1080 in annual union dues, which help fund Mr. Rosenthal's salary and perks.
(Source-couriermail.com.au)
Top 1-F1 Ace was budgie fancier who bedded 5,000 women
He was motor racing's first poster boy – ruggedly handsome, golden-haired and as unconventional on the track as he was colourful off it. At the peak of his fame in the 1970s, James Hunt’s death-defying antics on the racing circuit and party lifestyle won him
rock-star status and legions of devoted fans. Famous for his dishevelled, almost hippy style, he once boasted he had bedded more than 5,000 women. There were plenty of male fans, too. Motor racing aficionados loved Hunt’s laconic, understated approach to driving like a demon as well as his gripping rivalry with the great Niki Lauda.That rivalry is featured a film featuring Aussie star Chris Hemsworth who plays Hunt alongside German actor Daniel Bruhl's Lauda in the Ron Howard-directed film, Rush. Yet there was another side to him which few would guess at – a home-loving family man who was never happier than when with his wife and two young sons.
‘The father I knew was very different from the man the world knows,’ says elder son Tom, speaking for the first time of his famous father. ‘He had a very gentle, compassionate, loving side.’ Today’s Monaco Grand Prix marks the 40th anniversary of 1976 Formula 1 World Champion James Hunt’s grand prix debut and 20th anniversary of his death. Tom, who was just seven when his father died from a heart attack aged 45 in June, 1993, will be trackside for the race. ‘The footage and pictures give a very two-dimensional version of him. People concentrate on his wild antics and the glory days of his racing, and of course that was part of him, but there was another side of him that only his close friends and family saw, and that was a far more complex man. ‘He was a devoted dad who spent hours with my brother Freddie and me. We lost him young and it saddens me that as the years go on my memories fade and I feel like the images of him in the 1970s are what I know best rather than remembering Daddy from the 1990s.
(Source-couriermail.com.au)
