It’s a Weird World
FISHY MOBILE: A businessman who lost his mobile phone on a beach was amazed when it turned up — in the belly of a giant cod.
Andrew Cheatle thought it had been swept out to sea after it slipped from his pocket.
But a week later his girlfriend’s mobile rang and it was fisherman Glen Kerley saying he’d found the phone in a 25lb fish, reports The Sun.
Andrew got the handset back, dried it out — and amazingly it still works.
EYELID TOW: A Chinese man pulled a car by a rope attached only to his eyelids for more than five metres.
Yang Guanghe (35) of Guizhou was cheered and applauded at the Cherry Blossom Festival in Guangzhou as he towed the VW car.
Yang, who weighs only seven stone, said he had been practicing the stunt for more than 10 years.
“At the beginning it was a bit painful, but gradually I got used to it,” he told the Guangzhou Daily newspaper.
“I just want to know what the limit is of the weakest link in the human body.”
Pancake contest winner dies onstage - UPI.comCHERNYAKHOVSK, Russia, March 6 (UPI) -- A 48-year-old man who won a pancake-eating contest in the Russian town of Chernyakhovsk died while accepting his prize onstage, witnesses say.
Pravda reported Wednesday that Boris Isayev collapsed while walking on stage during last weekend's eating contest and began suffocating.
Witnesses said Isayev died on the stage despite attempts to save his live by paramedics.
Authorities did not offer a possible cause of death in the competitive eating tragedy, saying such findings would come in a post mortem examination.
The pancake eating contest had been part of Chernyahkovsk's recognition of the Russian holiday of Maslenitsa, also known as Butter Week.
Pravda said Maslenitsa is recognized by Catholics as the last week before the start of Lent, while in Slavic mythology it is seen as a sun festival honoring the coming end of winter.
