THAT'S OUTRAGEOUS!
BY Nathaniel Basen
BIG GULP Marine conservationist Rainer
Schimpf was adjusting his camera while snorkelling off the South African
shoreline last year when everything went dark. Schimpf felt a tight
compression, and realised what had happened: he was sitting in the mouth of a
Bryde's whale.
Knowing that Bryde's whales dive after
feeding, Schimpf prepared for a descent. As they plunged underwater, Schimpf's
host clocked its mistake and pushed the passenger back out the way he'd come.
Schimpf was relieved to be free - and thrilled that his boatmate had caught the
whale of a tale on camera.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY The lead-up to Chris Ferry's
62nd birthday in March last year was bizarre. Instead of just notes from family
and friends, Ferry estimates the New Jersey insurance agent received 250,000
calls and texts from around the world.
His sons, Chris and Michael, had bought
billboard space near Atlantic City and posted "WISH MY DAD A HAPPY BIRTHDAY”
along with his phone number. It went viral, and constant calls from as far away
as Kenya tied up his phone line for days. Ferry got a new number - no word on
if he's shared it with his sons.
A SIZZLING SCOOP In August 2017, a kitchen
worker at a Texas juvenile detention centre noticed a strange delivery - 375 kg
of beef fajitas, an item they had never served on the menu. Turns out, since at
least 2008, the prison's food services administrator had been ordering fajitas
for the centre, but instead of them going to the kitchen, he sold them to a nearby
restaurant owner and pocketed the profits. Six days after the delivery that
Gilberto Escamilla ho failed to intercept,
he was arrested, swiftly ending a
decade-long, US$1.2-million crime. Escamilla pleaded guilty to theft by a
public servant and was sentenced to 50 years in prison, meaning the case was
all wrapped up.
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