Craving-Woman is addicted to Eating Sofas

  Mother-of-five Adele Edwards, from Florida, is addicted to another kind of snack - the suite kind, which most people normally just sit on to eat their dinner.

Ms Edwards apparently loves chomping on household items - such as elastic bands and rubbers.However, her biggest weakness is snacking on the polyester stuffing in her sofa.

Shockingly, during the course of her lifetime, Ms Edwards believes she has eaten her way through eight settees and five chairs, consuming almost 16 stone of cushion in the process.Doctors have warned the 30-year-old mum that her addiction could kill her, but she just can't stop herself.They said Ms Edwards has a disorder called Pica, where sufferers often eat inedible items.She even had to have emergency treatment recently, so chunks of foam could be taken out of her intestines.Ms Edwards said: 'I was ten years old when I was first introduced to cushion.'At first, I thought it was strange but, after sucking it for a while, I came to like the texture.'The mum said from that point on, she began eating cushions quite regularly and would frequently swallow chunks 'as though it was candy floss'.

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Lucky-Driver Chokes on Apple, crash saves his life

A U.S. trucker was saved from choking to death on an apple by slamming into a median.

Richard Paylor, 55, blacked out and smashed his tractor-trailer into a concrete barrier in Reading, Penn., on Tuesday as he choked on a piece of fruit, police said.The impact is believed to have dislodged the apple chunk from his throat."I guess I have to thank the wall," Paylor told the Reading Eagle.Police recovered a chunk of apple on the dashboard.

Paylor, a 23-year truck-driving veteran, was taken to hospital with minor injuries.

Lucky-Dog mummies found in catacombs

 

An excavation of catacomb under the Egyptian desert has revealed the remains of millions of mummified dogs and jackals, British researchers say.The team from Cardiff University in the U.K. said the existence of the dog catacomb has been known for several decades, but has never been properly excavated before."The excavation team's latest estimate is that some eight million animals - most of them dogs or jackals - were buried there," researchers said in a press release Thursday.Work on the animal bones suggests they were just hours or days old when they were killed and mummified. Researchers said it's likely the dogs were bred in the thousands in special puppy farms around the ancient Egyptian capital of Memphis.Dr. Paul Nicholson from Cardiff said the findings indicate a "different view" of the relationship between people and animals.

Woman finds squirrel's nest under hood of car

  A Massachusetts woman made a startling discovery under the hood of her car Wednesday--a cluster of newborn squirrels.

XXXX beer brings horse back from the dead

IT sounds like a load of XXXX but beer saved this horse's life.

Diamond Mojo, a six-year-old Australian waler, had been given up for dead by his owner Steve Clibborn after being struck down with a bout of potentially deadly colic.

So, as desperate men do in desperate times, Steve turned to the bottle not for himself, but for his horse."I had pretty much kissed him goodbye," he said."I had spent 23 hours straight with him but nothing worked and then I remembered an old bush tale that said you could feed them beer."I don't know whether I really believed it or not but it was worth a shot and as soon as he had that beer, he burped and perked right up. So I gave him another couple."Over the following days, Steve repeated the dose using Queensland's own XXXX lager until his prized endurance horse rediscovered his mojo.

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