Twist of fate saves two lives

Will he jump? Or will he not? These were the confusing riddles that were troubling the onlookers.

A man was on the London Bridge threatening to commit suicide by jumping into the Thames from such a height.

One person who had been having a stable mind immediately alerted the police and the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) who promptly arrived at the scene.

The police went up the bridge and convinced the depressed man to give up his suicidal feat, and helped him to safety.

It is said that fate takes strange paths. This depressed man was not aware that he inadvertently helped another human being to be saved from sure death. After being alerted by a passer-by who pointed at the river the volunteers with the RNLI spotted the head of a person bobbing in the water not far from the bridge.

“It was clearly a person under water,” said Toni Scarr a RNLI crew member, who added: “We brought him aboard the lifeboat and found he was wearing a large duffel coat that had weighed him down.

“He was struggling to keep his face above the water. Although he seemed alert and spoke to the crew, he was apologetic and wasn't sure who he was or how he came to be in the river.” Back at Tower lifeboat station, a waiting ambulance crew found the man was suffering hypothermia, with a body temperature of 33.1C.

“There were no other boats in the area at the time and I don't think anyone was actually aware he was in the water. Chances are if it hadn't been for the lifeboat crew launching to the original incident - he would never have been spotted and would have drowned.”

“He was incredibly fortunate in that respect. We still don't know how he came to be in the water but due to an unusual twist of fate we managed to avoid one more fatality on the River Thames,” Scarr said.

She said that the fact that the man was suffering from hypothermia may explain his state of confusion. The RNLI recorded the incident as a “life saved”, which applies when a person would most likely have lost their life were it not for the intervention of a lifeboat crew.

Python swallows dog with its chain

It was the most shocking encounter she had experienced in her life - a massive python with a chain hanging out of its mouth! It was there in her pet dog's kennel but Chinhuahua-Maltese dog was nowhere to be seen.

Wildlife Information Rescue and Education Service (Wires) volunteers were called to the home, in rural Caniaba, in New South Wales, Australia to find an eight foot carpet python with a bulge in its body and the dog's chain hanging from its mouth.

Wires spokeswoman Sue Ulyatt said the dog owner realised she had made a “dreadful mistake”.

“She hadn't thought about the possibility of a snake taking the dog,” she said. The lady went out to let the dog off the chain, but instead of the dog being on the chain, what she saw was a large carpet python.

“It's only the second incident like this we've had in over 10 years. Usually it's the other way around, the snake comes off second best.” The python, which is believed to be about 50 years old, is under observation at Currumbin Wildlife Hospital and had to undergo surgery to remove the chain.

Senior vet Michael Pyne has told the Northern Star that the snake is “very happy”. “The chain was there until the snake had digested it all,” he said.

Heaviest bee suit

Would you like to wear a bee suit?

This suit will have to comprise over 184 live bees and will have to weigh over 72 pounds. If you wear this special suit with these angry prickly creatures all over you, you will be recognised as world record holder.

Zheng Wei from Zizhou county in western China wore this suit consisting of 184 live bees.

He actually had to make a special frame covered in foliage to hold that many bees. Believe it or not Zheng Wei actually broke the old world record. Just a few days ago another Chinese bee keeper ShenZonghong wore a 72 lbs bee suit. But beware! Don't ever try this. You'll either end up in hospital or...

Police seal mouths of suspects to prevent collusion

The mouth of a suspect is sealed by police in Huizhou, Guangdong province.

Police in Huizhou, Guangdong province, taped the mouths of suspects during interrogation to avoid collusion, because they could not understand the suspects’ dialect.

Officers at Chenjiang police station detained 23 suspects in two mahjong parlours on Saturday, the Southern Metropolis News reported.

The suspects, from Weng'an county, Guizhou province, are believed to have been involved in a string of thefts.

ZouChaolu, a lawyer in Guangdong, said sealing their mouths is not prohibited explicitly but there may be better ways to ensure collusion did not take place.