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Russian ‘wedding police’ tackle unruly guests
A
special police unit has been set up in
southern Russia with the sole purpose of
ensuring security at weddings.
The 40-strong detail will patrol in the North
Caucasus region of Adygea, making sure that
wedding motorcades observe the highway code
and that nobody fires weapons from car windows, the Tass news agency reported.
The people of Adygea have a reputation for
partying hard, and weddings there often involve
celebratory gunfire and driving around in noisy
convoys that pay little heed to traffic rules.
“The creation of the ‘wedding police’ should
put an end to uncontrolled expressions of joy by
people in wedding motorcades,” Adygea’s Interior Minister Aleksandr Rechitsky said. This
is the first such unit in Russia, he adds, and its
members will be strategically placed along wedding parties’ routes. They will also police registry offices and “places frequented by wedding
celebrations”, such as squares and parks.
Some newlyweds have welcomed the new measures. “Setting up this police unit was the right thing to do because people have been
killed by wedding shootings,” one bride tells regional TV channel. The latest shooting incident in Adygea occurred on August 15 when a
man discharged his pistol in celebration outside a registry office in Maykop, the region’s capital. He was fined 50,000 rubles ($700, £480)
and his gun was seized.
Perfectly skinning a watermelon
is your new favorite party trick
The shortest man in history has died from
pneumonia at the age of 75.
Chandra Dangi of Nepal, who was just
21.5ins, was declared the shortest human
adult ever documented and verified in
2012, mirror.co.uk reported.
He died at the Lyndon B. Johnson
Tropical Medical Center in Pago Pago in
American Samoa in the Pacific following a brief illness.
Family friend Sujit Dilip, owner of India’s well-known Rambo Circus, based
in Pune, said: “Today, our circus is flooded with tears at the loss of the world’s
smallest man, whom we lovingly called
Prince Chandra.”
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Dangi broke the record in 2012 when he
was crowned by Guinness World Recordsin Kathmandu, Nepal.
A spokeswoman at the hospital said he died of an undisclosed disease but it was believed he’d been suffering from pneumonia.
He was being treated in Nepal but traveled the 7,500 miles to American Samoa for an appearance and
had to be rushed to hospital after his symptoms worsened.
Dangi became a local hero when he was crowned shortest man — allowing him to travel the
world and send money home to his impoverished village Reemkholi, 335 miles southwest of
Kathmandu.
Before that he made placemats and head straps for villagers carrying heavy loads.
A primordial dwarf, Dangi was the height of six cans of baked beans.
PICTURE OF THE DAY
LUCIANO CANDISANI/MINDEN PICTURES
A tough looking anteater pumped itself up for a confrontation with a Jeep when it bravely stepped out in front of the car on a dirt track.
Photographer Luciano Candisani said the animal was making itself look ‘bigger’ and ‘stronger’ after spotting the vehicle.
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Sudoku was inspired by the table devised by Iranian mathematician
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each of the nine 3×3 sub-grids that compose the grid, contains all of the
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Want a juicy party trick
to wow your friends?
Former NASA engineer
Mark Rober has just the
thing.
Tell your pals you’ve
learned how to perfectly skin a watermelon
and watch their jaws
drop when you unveil
this feat, Huffington
Post reported.
As Rober’s step-bystep instructional video
shows, the ‘peeled’
watermelon is actually
two fruits, both carefully prepped beforehand.
The trick involves using two similarly-sized
watermelons — one
‘skinned’ by a knife
and scoured with dish
scrubbing pads, and the
other cut in half and
completely
hollowed
out.
You then put the
fleshy bit into the two
rind bowls, and voilà!
World’s shortest man dies at age 75
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