Odd News
Dog filmed holding “black lives matter” sign at US protest
A video of the golden retriever holding a “Black lives matter” placard in his mouth as he marched along with anti-racism protesters in the United States has attracted over 8 million views on Twitter and invoked mixed reactions from viewers.
Sarah Emrick, 23, took to the streets with her dog to join hundreds of others protesting the death of an African-American man, George Floyd, who died after being pinned beneath a police officer’s knee for nine minutes.
Footage showed Ms Emrick walking her dog on a leash along with several other protesters on Sunday afternoon.
The dog was filmed walking calmly along with its owner, holding the cardboard sign in its mouth.
Ms Emrick later took to Twitter to respond to criticism about bringing her dog to a protest, saying that she would “never let it be harmed”.
– ndtv.com
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
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
