Teen’s train adventure Down Under
 A 19-year-old American is thanking his lucky stars after surviving
for two-and-a-half-hours clinging to the outside of a train as it sped
through the Australian Outback. Tourist, Chad Vance, had hopped off to
stretch his legs but lost track of time.
He then spotted the train pulling away and decided to run after it
and climb on.
Chad squeezed himself into a small stairwell, but as the train
gathered speed to more than 112 kph, he began to panic. Chad banged on
the windows until finally, more than two hours later, someone spotted
him and alerted the driver who brought the train to an emergency stop.
High on love
 The world’s getting stranger by the day! Two space boffins will
become the first people to get married FLOATING in zero gravity.
Americans, Noah Fulmor and Erin Finnegan, will exchange vows on a
specially-adapted plane, which performs a daring series of swoops to
allow eight minutes of weightlessness – like a spaceship in orbit.
Noah will offer his bride a ring made of fragments from a meteorite
that crashed into the Earth 30,000 years ago. And Erin will wear a
designer wedding dress with trousers to protect her modesty in zero-G.
British space tourist Richard Garriott will officiate on the Boeing 727,
taking off from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, US, on 20 June. The
adventurous pair will then head off on honeymoon – in Antarctica.
By George! He’s not impressed!
 A British man who bears a striking resemblance to George Clooney says
his celebrity look-a-like status ruined his 14-year marriage! Restaurant
owner, Abdullah Simsek, hit the headlines last year after it was
revealed how he was constantly being mistaken for Clooney.
Now he’s told the *Daily Telegraph*, his new-found fame and the
accompanying attention from women has taken its toll: “My wife thinks
I’m going to be famous now and I am heading off to Hollywood.
I don’t think I’ve changed but she thinks I have. Because of this, we
have separated after 14 years of marriage, so I am back to being
single.” He says he’s going to Hollywood to try his luck.
2010’s unexpected consssssequence!
 The huge number of construction projects underway across South Africa
as they prep for the 2010 Soccer World Cup is having an unexpected
consequence: snakes are being driven into suburban homes in search of
peace and quiet!
ReptiRescue, an organization that responds to snake alarms in Gauteng,
says the upheaval caused by the upgrading of roads, airports and
stadiums is driving snakes from resting places.
In the past two months alone, experts had to catch 24 snakes in the
Joburg area, an unusually high number for winter, when snakes are
usually less active. Last winter, the organization only had three such
cases. It’s believed snakes are fleeing the noise and tremors caused by
the construction to homes, gardens and schools. |
