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Daring group of men try to take selfie with tiger
One of them got close to the tiger
A video showing a bunch of people getting too close to a tiger in order to take pictures with the wild animal is gaining traction on the internet.
Shared by Indian Forest Service (IFS) officer, Susanta Nanda, on Twitter, the short clip showed a group of men following a tiger trying to cross a forest road. One of them tried to take a selfie with the wild animal without thinking about the consequences.
The tiger was in close proximity and the encounter could have been fatal. However, regardless of the danger, the group of men kept edging closer to the tiger instead of running away.
Fortunately, the wild animal ignored the bunch of men and continued on its way, without causing any harm. However, in the caption, Mr Nanda pointed out that the incident could have gone horribly wrong.
Mr Nanda shared the clip which had since accumulated more than 82,000 views. Internet users slammed the commuters for their irresponsible behaviour.
“How come they have come out from their vehicle and walking in a Tiger Reserve? These people should be glad that it wasn’t looking for meat!” one user wrote. —ndtv.com
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Message in bottle floats from Canada to Ireland in 13 years
A message in a bottle launched by visitors to Newfoundland’s Bell Island was found washed up on an Irish beach nearly 13 years later, after apparently crossing the Atlantic Ocean.
Kate Gay said she was walking a Dingle Peninsula beach this week when she spotted the wine bottle with a sheet of paper inside.
Gay showed the bottle to members of Creative Ireland NeartnaMacharaí during a meeting at her house that evening, and they broke the bottle open.
The note, written by a couple named Brad and Anita, was dated Sept. 12, 2012. The letter described the couple’s day trip to Bell Island.
There was a phone number on the letter, but there was no answer when group members tried to call.
The Maharees Heritage and Conservation group posted photos of the bottleto social media on Monday, and within an hour group members were messaging with Anita.
Group member Martha Farrell said Anita reported that she and Brad had married in 2016 and are still together to this day. -upi.com
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Woman earns world record for collection of 15,485 egg cups
A Spanish woman who has been collecting egg cups for over 50 years earned a Guinness World Record when her collection was tallied at 15,485 items.
María José Fuster recruited two witnesses to help her tally her collection at a community center in her hometown of Campo, Spain.
Fuster’s collection includes multiple patterns, colors, designs and even novelty cups bearing the images of characters including Superman, Betty Boop and Garfield.
Fuster maintains two blogs related to her hobby — one to catalog each piece, and one to list the names of the people who have donated egg cups to her collection.
Some of her most prized egg cups, about 1,143 of them, are currently on display at a local museum.
-upi.com
