Nice-Cat home safe in Ohio after Florida trip
Lucky-Man credits shark for saving him from 15 weeks at sea
Anger-Man shoots golfer who broke his window
Big Change-South Korean host bars - for women
Lesson-2-year-old given ticket for public urination
Nice-Cat home safe in Ohio after Florida trip
A stowaway cat that snuck into its owner's suitcase and flew from Ohio to Florida is home safe and sound after its unplanned week-long vacation, its owner says. Bob-Bob, a 14-month-old male cat from Circleville, Ohio, snuck into owner Ethel Maze's suitcase as she packed for her trip to Orlando last week, the Circleville Herald newspaper reported. Maze's suitcase — and Bob-Bob — made it through luggage screening and was loaded on the plane. The suitcase arrived in Orlando at 10:30 a.m., but Maze didn't discover the cat was there until 2 p.m., when she was able to check in to her room. She opened the suitcase and was shocked to see her cat.
Lucky-Man credits shark for saving him from 15 weeks at sea
A Kiribati policeman, who was stranded at sea, adrift on a small wooden boat for 15 weeks, credits an unusual saviour for his rescue - a shark. Toakai Teitoi, who had flown from his home island Maiana to the Kiribati capital of Tarawa for his swearing-in as a policeman on May 27, decided to make the trip back by boat with his brother-in-law - a two-hour journey by sea, Agence France Presse reported. The pair stopped along the way to fish and sleep overnight but woke the next morning to discover they had drifted out of sight of Maiana, AFP reported. They soon ran out of fuel. "We had food, but the problem was we had nothing to drink," Teitoi told the news agency. His brother-in-law fell sick and died on July 4.
Rainfall allowed Teitoi to collect fresh water to drink, but he continued to drift. On Sept. 11, he said he awoke from a nap to a scratching sound and looked to the water where he saw a six-foot shark circling the boat and bumping the hull. The shark swam off after it got his attention, AFP reported. "He was guiding me to a fishing boat," Teitoi told AFP. "I looked up and there was the stern of a ship and I could see crew with binoculars looking at me." Kiribati is an island nation in the central tropical Pacific that straddles the equator.
Anger-Man shoots golfer who broke his window: Police
RENO, NEVADA - An angry homeowner apparently had better aim than a Nevada golfer whose errant ball broke the window of a home that overlooks the course. Jeff Fleming, 53, of Reno is accused of opening fire with a shotgun on a golfing twosome, hitting one man who was treated at a hospital and released, police said on Friday.
Lesson-2-year-old given ticket for public urination
He is learning to potty train, so when a 2-year-old has to go... he has to go. His mother asked workers in the store they were in if her son could use the bathroom only to be denied. So they went outside where the toddler peed. That's when they were approached by a Philadelphia police officer and handed a $50 ticket for public urination.
Big Change-South Korean host bars - for women
South Korea's rapid economic development has meant some startling changes within its conservative social structure, including the rise of so-called host bars, where wealthy women pay the equivalent of thousands of dollars for male company. In the dim light of an underground room, a dozen perfectly groomed young men kneel in rows, calling out their names.Muscular, with shiny boy-band hairstyles, they cram side by side into the narrow space, waiting for us to make our choice. Outside in the corridor, more of their colleagues are arriving for another night at work. It is 2am, and we are their first customers.
Hidden beneath the pavements of Seoul's ritziest postcode, Gangnam, the men at Bar 123 are part of a growing industry, which grew out of the long traditions of Japanese geisha and Korea's kisaeng houses but with one crucial difference - the customers here are all women.Known as "host bars", these all-night drinking rooms offer female customers the chance to select and pay for male companions, sometimes at a cost of thousands of pounds a night. One of the women I meet at Bar 123 is Minkyoung, a waitressing manager for a five-star hotel. She says she comes to host bars once or twice a month.
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