That’s one way to spoil your appetite [News of the Weird] – Reading Eagle
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On Nov. 7, the South China Morning Post reported an uproar following a social media post depicting a small child urinating on a table full of food. The baby’s mother captured the moment on video when her child sprayed the breakfast table with urine, then proudly revealed that the family had continued to eat the food. The Beijing mom commented that they “rarely put disposable diapers on him … We do not cover it because it is better not to interrupt the child while he is urinating.”
Recurring theme
On Nov. 8, police in Los Angeles arrested a man who had apparently been living in the crawl space beneath a 92-year-old woman’s home, The New York Times reported. She had heard unusual noises from inside her house and assumed they were animals, but when family members heard knocking, they called police. When officers arrived, the alleged squatter, Isaac Betancourt, 27, who was naked, would not come out from under the home. Betancourt had to be forced out with gas; he was released after his arrest for trespassing. The homeowner’s son-in-law, Ricardo Silva, said the entrances to the crawl space would be secured.
“It’s probably not uncommon, you know,” Silva said, “in this day and age, people are looking for shelter.”
Auction house Reeman Dansie in Colchester, England, announced that a slice of wedding cake from the marriage of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip has been purchased for $2,831, United Press International reported. The little slice of history, part of a 500-pound cake served at the Nov. 20, 1947, wedding, had been given as a gift to Marion Polson, a housekeeper at Holyrood House in Edinburgh, Scotland. It was preserved in a box bearing the then-princess’s insignia and included a letter from the bride. No word on how it tasted.
Mattel is scrambling after releasing its new line of “Wicked” dolls in packaging that included a link not to the upcoming movie’s official page, but to a porn website, United Press International reported.
“We deeply regret this unfortunate error,” the company said in a statement.
It was unclear how many dolls carried the misprint, but the company said they were mostly sold in the United States. Mattel helpfully advises people who have purchased products with the misprint to dispose of the boxes.
Aaron Fowler, a surfer in Denmark, Western Australia, was riding the waves on Nov. 1 when he spotted an unusual bird, the Albany Advertiser reported.
“There was this big bird in the water … and it just stood up and waddled right over to us,” he said.
The emperor penguin had swum thousands of kilometers from Antarctica and was malnourished; it was given into the care of the University of Western Australia’s School of Biological Sciences, where its rehabilitation is expected to last a few weeks. One expert there said the penguins are never observed north of the 60th parallel south.
“It was kind of funny,” Fowler said, “like as he came out of the water, he went to do a tummy slide — like I guess he’s used to on the ice — and he just did a kind of face-plant in the sand … and looked a bit shocked.”
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