THAT’S OUTRAGEOUS!
BIG GULP Marine conservationist
Rainer Schimpf was adjusting his
camera while snorkelling off the
South African shoreline last year
when everything went dark. Schimpf
felt a tight compression, and realised
what had happened: he was sitting in
the mouth of a Bryde’s whale.
Knowing that Bryde’s whales dive
after feeding, Schimpf prepared
for a descent. As they plunged
underwater, Schimpf ’s host clocked
its mistake and pushed the passenger
back out the way he’d come. Schimpf
was relieved to be free – and thrilled
that his boatmate had caught the
whale of a tale on camera.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY The lead-upto
Chris Ferry’s 62nd birthdayinMarch
last year was bizarre.Insteadofjust
notes from family and
Ferry estimates theNew
insurance agent receiv
250,000 calls and texts
around the world.
His sons, Chris and
Michael, had bought
billboard space
near Atlantic City
and posted “WISH
MY DAD A HAPPY
BIRTHDAY” along with his phone
number. It went viral, and constant
calls from as far away as Kenya tied
up his phone line for days. Ferry got
a new number – no word on if he’s
shared it with his sons.A SIZZLING SCOOP In August
2017, a kitchen worker at a Texas
juvenile detention centre noticed
a strange delivery – 375 kg of beef
fajitas, an item they had never served
on the menu. Turns out, since at
least 2008, the prison’s food services
administrator had been ordering
fajitas for the centre, but instead of
them going to the kitchen, he sold
them to a nearby restaurant owner
and pocketed the profits.
Six days after the delivery that
Gilberto Escamilla
failed to intercept,
hewas arrested,
swiftly ending
a decade-long,
US$1.2-million crime.
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