Giant footprint in US woman’s backyard sparks Bigfoot rumours
New York: A gigantic footprint found in an Ohio woman’s backyard has led to speculation that it may have been left behind by the mysterious Bigfoot.
From toe to toe, the footprint measures 7.5 inches wide. Its length, however, appears comparable to a male human’s foot. Wendy, who did not give her last name, came across the imprint while doing yardwork, last month. It was planted about an inch and a half deep in the mud, said the Ashtabula County resident.
“It’s much larger than anything me or my husband has ever seen,” Wendy told NewsNet5. “I took a picture to show my mother’s husband, who’s a hunter, and he said it wasn’t a human’s. I’m not claiming that footprint to be anything. I don’t know what that is,” she said. However, Wendy has ruled out that the footprint belongs to a bear, ‘New York Daily News’ reported.
“The hunters agree, it’s not a bear. These are definitely toes. They are not claws,” she said. So, could this be the footprint of a Sasquatch, otherwise known as Bigfoot? For Wendy, this is not her first encounter with strange happenings in her neighbourhood. In the last five years, she said, she’s had a series of unusual experiences around her home ranging from strange sounds to dark figures.
Once she heard a growl unlike anything she had ever heard before and another time she saw what appeared to be a large man in all black running around before dusk.
She said she’s even heard a loud pounding on the outside of her house. Bigfoot is the name given to an ape-like creature that some people believe inhabits forests, mainly in the Pacific Northwest region of North America.
Bigfoot is usually described as a large, hairy, bipedal humanoid. According to the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organisation, which has documented sightings across the US, Ohio is ranked with Illinois as the fourth most-common state for Bigfoot sightings. (PTI)
90-year-old man gets free aeroplane ride in Nepal
Kathmandu: A 90-year-old Nepalese man has fulfilled his life time dream of flying on an aeroplane when a private airline selected him for a free ride on one of its flights.
“Majja Ayo, Aayo Majja” (I enjoyed the flight, I enjoyed very much),” said Master Nau, who is just 18 inch in height and weighs 18 kg, after a 30-minute flight from Bhairahawa to Kathmandu. Helpers of the airlines carried the tiny wrinkled man on the aircraft.
Born in a poor family in Rupandehi district of western Nepal, he had never thought of flying on an aeroplane, says Roshan Regmi, Marketing Manager of Yeti Airlines. During his brief stay in Kathmandu, Nau will visit the Narayanhiti Palace Museum, a Jama Mosque, Singhdurbar Secretariat and Budhanilkantha temple.
Nau said his last wish is to wear a digital watch after flying in an aircraft and the Yeti Airlines has promised to gift him a watch before he returns to his home. Nau is soon going to submit a document to the Guinness World Records claiming that he is the shortest living man in the world, Regmi said.
The airlines said in a statement that the company gives high priority to corporate social responsibility and as part of it the airlines has come forward to give Nau a whole new experience in life. The initiative comes less than 3 days after the airlines provided 18 orphans with a free mountain flight to see Mount Everest, the world’s highest peak. (PTI)
British police chief proposes ‘drunk tanks’
London: British police chiefs proposed today creating privately run “drunk tanks” to house revellers who drink so much they cannot look after themselves — and they would be given a bill for their care the next day.
Adrian Lee, a chief constable who leads police policy on alcohol harm, argued that too much time is wasted by officers and health workers dealing with people who have consumed so much alcohol they require medical treatment.
He made the suggestion at the launch of a new campaign aimed at highlighting alcohol harm, amid ongoing concerns about the pressure drinkers are putting on accident and emergency services and police.
“I do not see why the police service or the health service should pick up the duty of care for someone who has chosen to go out and get so drunk that they cannot look after themselves,” said Lee, chief constable of Northamptonshire Police, north of London.
“So why don’t we take them to a drunk cell owned by a commercial company and get the commercial company to look after them during the night until they are sober?
“When that is over we will issue them with a fixed penalty and the company will be able to charge them for their care, which would be at quite significant cost and that might be a significant deterrent.”(AFP)
China set to ferry record 10 million rail passengers
Beijing: China’s railways will carry more than 10 million passengers on peak days during the upcoming week-long National Day Holiday, official media said on Thursday.
From September 28 to October 7, the daily passenger volume will reach 8.1 million on average, up by 10.9 per cent, or an increment of 5.73 million passengers from a year earlier, China Railway Corporation said in a statement on Thursday.
The seven-day National Day Holiday, also called “Golden Week,” starts on October 1. Around 9.14 million people travelled by train on the peak day during last year’s National Day Holiday, the highest daily passenger volume so far, state-run Xinhua news agency reported.
This year, the peak is expected to fall on October 1, with about 10.1 million passengers carried by trains. Thirty-one pairs of additional trains will be put into temporary service during the holiday to cope with the surging demand, the statement said. (PTI)
Man drowns while trying to save camel
Dubai: A man in his early 20s drowned after he jumped into the sea to rescue a camel he thought was drowning, though the animal was unharmed.
Rescuers recovered the body of the Sudanese man who was drowned, the UAE police said. “The camel came out unharmed,” said investigation director Major Khalid Ali Obaid Al Ali.
Ali said the victim had taken the camel to the sea, along with his sponsor and two other Asians.
“On coming closer to the sea, the camel hurried towards the water, got into the water and the Sudanese man jumped into the water to rescue it… but instead the poor guy drowned and the camel floated,” he was quoted as saying in the local media reports.
Ali said residents informed the police about the incident as those accompanying the victim raised an alarm. Many people dived into the sea to rescue the victim but could not find or rescue him, he said.
The police rescue team and coast guards also rushed to the scene and were joined by the Sharjah air wing to locate the missing man, he said, adding that it took rescuers around four hours to locate the victim’s body about 200 m off the sea shore. (PTI)