The Week Junior - UK (2022-06-11)

11 June 2022 • The Week Junior 27

*Rubbish! Bertie the pheasant did jump on the bus but he got an un-pheasant

reception. Libertybus has a “no birds on board” policy, so driver Miguel coaxed him

to the front and put him back on the pavement.

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Mona Lisa, one of the world’s most famous works of art, has been attacked before –
but never with cake. A 36-year-old man has been arrested after he disguised himself
as an elderly woman in a wheelchair and smeared cake on a glass screen that protects
Leonardo da Vinci’s painting at the Louvre Museum in Paris. He was apparently
staging an environmental protest, telling bystanders in French, “Think of the planet.
There are people who are destroying the planet, think about that. That’s why I did it.”
Luckily, the painting itself wasn’t damaged.

Randy needed

to be cut free.

SpongeBob snares a dragon

An animal hospital in the US had to deal with “the cutest emergency we’ve ever

had” when a pet lizard got its head stuck inside a toy pineapple. In order to free

the bearded dragon (which was called Randy), vets at the New England Animal

Medical Centre had to break open the pineapple, a model of SpongeBob

Squarepants’s underwater home. “We’re not laughing at you Randy, we are

laughing with you,” the centre wrote in a social media post. “The pineapple didn’t

make it, but Randy is back home happily laying in the sun.”

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A woman who lived on cheese and onion crisp sandwiches from the age of two has

finally started eating other foods. Zoe Sadler, who is now 25, ate two packs of her

favourite crisps every day for more than two decades but she decided to make a

change after developing a serious illness. With the help of hypnotherapy (a kind of

treatment involving a trance-like state), Zoe has started eating fruit and vegetables.

She says getting engaged to be married helped to motivate her. “I really don’t just

want to be eating crisp sandwiches on my wedding day,” she said.

If you could fly, you probably wouldn’t bother getting the bus – unless you were

treated like a guest of honour. That’s what happened to Bertie the pheasant when

he hopped on the No. 9 bus on the UK island of Jersey. The bus driver, Miguel, was

so amazed at his unexpected passenger that he brought Bertie to the front of the

bus and let the bird travel beside him all the way to the end of the route. The bus

company, Libertybus, said that from now on birds are welcome on all their services

• but is this story true or just a flight of fancy?*

Bertie was

left unruffled.

Crunch time for cured crisp lover

Zoe Sadler got

expert help.

Pheasant takes first-class trip

Art vandal given his just deserts