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Passengers in crowded bus let sleeping dog occupy seats
A video showing a dog occupying two empty seats in a crowded bus has gone viral on social media.
The clip was posted on Twitter and read: “Although the wagon was crowded and it was occupying two seats, nobody disturbed its (the dog’s) rest.”
The heartwarming video showed a number of passengers standing inside a crowded bus, waiting to get a seat. As the camera panned out, the clip then showed a canine peacefully sleeping on two seats, while passengers stood around it.
What melted the hearts was the fact that even though there were a number of people in the vehicle waiting to get a seat, none of them disturbed the sleeping pooch.
One user wrote, “Let sleeping dogs lie. Let every sleeping living thing sleep in peace and love. Be kind,” while another added, “Wow, kindness is still alive in this unkind world.”
Similar cute videos of animals are available on the internet. A while back a video clip showing a man singing a song for his dog to fall asleep surfaced on social media. —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
