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Lion bites off zookeeper’s finger as he teases it through cage
A zookeeper in Jamaica recently had his finger ripped off by a lion after he poked his hand through the bars of its cage.
Viral footage captured the horrifying moment in which the man was seen desperately trying to pull his hand away, while the lion continued to hold on.
The clip showed an attendant at Jamaica Zoo sticking his finger into the chain-linked cage in front of around 15 visitors. He tries to touch the lion as if he was playing with a cat.
The zookeeper ignored the animal’s snarling and continued to play with and tease the lion. However, seconds into the clip, the dangerous animal is seen striking and clamping its jaws around the man’s finger.
The man ended up losing his ring finger entirely. Speaking to Jamaica Observer, an eyewitness said that the zookeeper was showing off to onlookers when it all went horribly wrong.
“When it happened, I thought it was a joke,” the woman said, adding, “I didn’t realise the seriousness of it, because it’s their job to put on a show.”
The incident had sparked concern for the lion’s welfare and treatment by the staff. – 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
