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Woman labelled ‘uncivilised’ for shooting and killing dog in front of her children
A Lebanese woman has been dubbed “inhuman and uncivilised” after a video that showed her shooting and killing a dog outside her home went viral last Friday. She now faces legal action.
The video showed a woman armed with a hunting rifle shooting twice at a dog, believed to be a German shepherd, and killing it in Lebanon’s Western Bekaa Valley region. It sparked outrage as it spread on social media, along with calls from users and animal-right activists for the woman to be arrested.
The outcry prompted Minister of Agriculture, Abbas Al-Hajj Hassan, to call on the local authorities to launch an investigation. He said he had contacted the region’s general prosecutor, “who will direct officials to take appropriate action.”
The woman had deactivated her Facebook account but before doing so she posted a message saying that she killed the animal as “an act of self defence” because a month ago the animal bit her daughter while she was feeding it.
She posted photos of her daughter’s injuries to corroborate her story and said that the girl had been hospitalised and undergone surgery.
Nevertheless, animal right activists want the woman “punished for her brutal and inhuman act.”
Antoine Kanaan, a lawyer and editor-in-chief of the Lebanon Law Review, said the woman’s act was punishable under the provisions of existing animal welfare laws. –arabnews.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
