 ‘McHuggin’ squeezes his way to a record
Jeff Ondash, 51, who calls himself ‘Teddy McHuggin’ worked the Las
Vegas Strip outside the Paris Hotel-Casino for an entire day getting
cozy with passers by. He shared the love at a rate of 324 hugs an hour -
about 5 and a half per minute, beating the previous record holder,
Dublin’s Siobhan O’Connor, by a full two hugs per minute.
McHuggin, from Canfield, Ohio, already holds a place in the Guinness
Book of World Records after achieving the most hugs in one hour - 1,205
cuddles.
He now has his sights set on the world’s longest single hug -
currently 24 hours and 1 second, as well as breaking his previous two
records. McHuggin aims to raise money for the American Heart Association
during February, its Heart month, a cause close to him as both his
father and brother have died of heart-related problems.
- Sky news
Emergency exit!
Caroline Meech, 32, and her husband Mike raced to the Royal Hampshire
County Hospital in Winchester for the birth of her third child – just in
the nick of time. As Mrs. Meech stumbled into the foyer she found
herself simply unable to take a step further and fell to the floor in
the last stages of her labour. Midwives came to her aid and within ten
minutes her daughter Alice Harriet was born - just inside the doors, by
the water cooler.
Mrs Meech, said “I knew the baby was coming so I told Mike to take me
to hospital. My waters broke in Hursley and I saw her head coming down.’
We screamed into the car park. The midwives tried to persuade me to get
in a wheelchair. But there was no way I could move. Adding an element of
the ridiculous to the situation, Mrs. Meech found that every time she
pushed, the automatic doors would slide open. It was a comedy situation.
Teen sucked into river drain and weir found alive!
A 15-year-old boy had been walking his dog by the Nerang River in
Queensland, Australia, when he slipped into the water. The current
dragged him further in and he got sucked into a drain inlet. The
terrifying situation got even worse when the boy’s leg became wedged
inside the pipe.
A passer-by heard the teenager’s screams for help and threw him a
snorkel in a desperate attempt to help him breathe over the water.
But the teen was still struggling to stay alive so the rescuer
clambered down to the pipe and held the boy’s head above water. Ev
entually, the boy managed to wriggle his leg free, but the current
rushed him away from the inlet and through the intake pipe, before
spitting him out the other side of a weir.
After a frantic few minutes, the exhausted boy struggling in the
raging water was thrown a rope and pulled to safety. The boy, suffering
from hypothermia and a suspected broken pelvis, was taken to hospital. |
