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SUPER SMASH BROS SUCCESS
BIG BLANKET BUSINESS
A noise complaint at an American apartment resulted in a fun-filled
twist when investigating police officers joined a group of gamers
playing the Nintendo game, Super Smash Bros. Jovante Williams
updated his social media account posting, “neighbours called the
cops on us and now we’re fighting them” along with a video that
has since been shared thousands of times. Noise coming from the
Minneapolis unit reportedly irritated some nitpicking neighbours in
the complex despite the friends reducing the volume multiple times.
When five police officers and a
security guard arrived, gamer,
Storm McKee, explained the
situation and invited the group
to play - and they accepted.
Police officer, Isaac Palmer,
said, “I had never played the
game, so I said, ‘Why not?’
Not every call is chaos. Some
days we can just sit and chit
chat with people.”
Two blanket-related Guinness World Records have been
set recently with the first awarded to students at Britain’s
Warwick University who successfully constructed the largest
blanket fort. Measuring over 4,651-square-feet, hundreds
of blankets were used to build the fort which surpassed the
previous record of 3,303-square-feet. Meanwhile in Ireland,
a group of knitters have assembled the largest blanket in the
world measuring over 21,471-square-feet. Record attempt
organiser, Valery Larkin, created a Knitters of the World
Facebook group requesting donations of segments that she
then transformed into the giant blanket. The pieces came
flooding in from 32 countries including Britain, America,
Turkey, Germany, Sweden, South Africa, Singapore, Japan
and Australia. The record-breaking blanket was confirmed by
Guinness World Records before being cut into smaller pieces
and donated to the Red Cross.
ASPARAGUS ANTICS
A woman claiming to tell the future using asparagus has revealed her predictions
for the upcoming year. 63-year-old, Jemima Packington, from Bath in the United
Kingdom, throws asparagus spears into the air and interprets how they fall to fuel
her forecasts. Packington recalled making predictions since the age of eight and
believes to have inherited the gift from her great aunt who could allegedly read
tea leaves. The so-called ‘asparamancer’ said, “I take what I do seriously but I
never take myself seriously. When I cast the asparagus, it creates patterns and
it is the patterns I interpret.” Some of Packington’s latest predictions include the
return of Britain’s Big Brother television series, World Cup success for England,
extreme temperatures to become a regular occurrence and the folding of well-
known British businesses. Only time will tell!