Israeli magician breaks Blaines icy record
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| People pause to watch as
Hezi Dayan as he attempts to remain inside a cube of ice for
a record-breaking 64 hours on December 30, 2009 in Tel Aviv,
Israel. |
An Israeli illusionist has broken magician David Blaines record for
being entombed in ice by spending 66 hours in an eight-tonne frozen
block. Hezi Dayan, 29, had himself sealed inside a specially constructed
transparent ice cube in Tel Avivs Rabin Square.
He apparently stayed there for nearly three days, wearing just jeans
and a thin T-shirt.
At the stroke of the New Year, assistants cut open the ice block and
removed a weak-looking Dayan, taking him straight to a waiting
ambulance.
His condition was not immediately clear. Some 200 onlookers
celebrated the arrival of the new decade with Dayan. Blaine spent 63
hours in a similar ice cube in New Yorks Times Square in 2000.
- Sky news
Road hogs
 A busy motorway had to be closed after a herd of pigs escaped and ran
on to the carriageway. The southbound M11 towards London was shut after
a lorry carrying a consignment of 82 pigs crashed.
Essex Fire and Rescue Service attended the scene of the collision at
Junction 8 near Stansted Airport to discover about 12 animals had
escaped from the lorry and were running free on the road. A spokesman
said the carriageway was closed at 5.21 am while emergency crews tried
to round up the animals and secure them in a makeshift pen.
An Essex Police spokesman said about 50 of the animals, each weighing
about 20st, were trapped in the wreckage which was blocking two lanes,
while the runaway pigs were grazing on the embankment. He said the lorry
driver received head and shoulder injuries in the collision and was
taken to Princess Alexandra Hospital, Harlow.
Sky news
Christmas trees showing up with live ornaments
Forget the plastic icicles, brightly coloured balls and tinsel. Some
Christmas trees for sale in Anchorage, Alaska are adorned with something
truly different this holiday season - live Pacific Chorus frogs.
While the small frogs are very cute, measuring an inch or two with
lovely moss-coloured green sides and black spots, state officials are
asking residents to practice some tough love. If you find a Christmas
tree frog, kill it.
“They identified it as a Pacific Chorus frog,” said Tracey Gotthardt,
a zoologist with the universitys Alaska Natural Heritage Program.
The frogs are found from British Columbia to southern Baja
California, but are not native to Alaska. But Tammy Davis, leader of
Fish and Games Invasive Species Program, said the Alaska Natural
Heritage Program will accept live frogs as well. The important thing is
that people dont keep the Christmas frogs, she said.
- AP
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