A toddler climbed right into a “Hi there Kitty” arcade machine and did not need to go away. (Representational)
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From some flighty pigeon paranoia to the fugitive who cheated justice to the tip… your weekly roundup of offbeat tales from all over the world.
Off their perch
A “spy pigeon” held by Indian police for eight months has lastly been cleared of being a Chinese language spy.
The chook sparked suspicion when it turned up in Mumbai with “messages written in a Chinese language-like script” on its wings. Officers suspected espionage and put it in solitary confinement.
After protests from animal rights teams, the jailbird — who seems to have been a completely harmless racing pigeon from Taiwan — has lastly been launched.
It’s removed from the primary time that pigeons have had Indian spy chiefs in a flap. One was intercepted near the border with Pakistan in 2016 carrying a threatening message to Prime Minister Narendra Modi years after one other turned up in the identical space with a Pakistani telephone quantity stamped on its physique.
Amelia’s huge mistake: trusting a person
Amelia Earhart, the primary girl to fly the Atlantic, mysteriously disappeared as she tried to turn into the primary to fly all over the world.
And it was all a person’s fault — if divers who declare to have lastly discovered her aircraft are proper.
Earhart’s huge mistake it seems was to belief a person with the map.
The aviator vanished on one of many final legs of her epic journey in 1937 after taking off from Papua New Guinea for Howland Island, a tiny speck of a US territory between Australia and Hawaii.
Now deep sea divers declare to have discovered the wreck within the Pacific at a spot which seems to substantiate a principle that navigator Fred Noonan miscalculated their route. Former NASA scientist Liz Smith reckons Noonan fatally forgot to show again the calendar a day once they flew over the Worldwide Date Line.
The final word escape
Considered one of Japan’s most wished males, who had spent a half century on the run, lastly gave himself up… then promptly died.
Leftist guerilla Satoshi Kirishima was such a fixture of contemporary Japanese mythology, together with his picture displayed outdoors police stations for many years, that he impressed a Halloween costume. However the 70-year-old managed to cover in plain sight as a constructing employee till he turned up at a hospital final week with most cancers to confess who he was.
“I need to meet my dying with my actual identify,” he informed workers.
Actually getting right into a recreation
A toddler who climbed right into a “Hi there Kitty” arcade machine “was in no hurry to get out” when Australian police turned as much as rescue him.
Three-year-old Ethan squeezed into the claw machine — which was crammed with cuddly toys — by means of the prize dispenser chute throughout a visit to a Queensland buying centre.
And he was having a lot enjoyable inside he was reluctant to go away earlier than police broke the glass.
“You received a prize, which one would you like?” an officer requested him after lifting him out.
Do not sweat it
In essentially the most Scandinavian of rescues, two individuals have been pulled from the freezing waters of the Oslo fjord when individuals in a floating sauna rushed to their help after their Tesla automotive drove into the drink.
“They saved our lives,” mentioned the proprietor of the automotive, who was in a position to heat up right away within the sauna.
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