Naked Job interview and Big Bra hunt in UK

Very Lucky-Woman's silence fuels $656 million lottery claim doubts

Very nice deal-Buy your own zip code: U.S. towns for sale

What a new way to get interview-Boss faces jail for naked job interviews

What a scary surprise-Pilot: 'I've got snakes on a plane'

What a nice idea-Big bra hunt for UK charity Oxfam

Very very strange-Petrified postmen ordered to stay away from Snowball the cat

What a scary surprise-Pilot: 'I've got snakes on a plane'

An Australian pilot had to make an unplanned landing only 20 minutes after takeoff after a snake slithered out of the dashboard into the cockpit. Pilot Braden Blennerhassett spotted the snake about 20 minutes after takeoff from the Darwin Airport on an Air Frontier cargo flight Tuesday afternoon, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation reported. "Lo and behold, in between the instrument panel and the dashboard, a stowaway came on board and it took me a while to register that it was actually a snake," Blennerhassett told the broadcaster Thursday. "I turned (the plane) around and got it headed back towards Darwin there and said, 'Look, you're not going to believe this. I've got snakes on a plane." A character played by Samuel L. Jackson found himself in a similar situation in the widely parodied 2006 action-thriller Snakes on a Plane.

At first, air traffic control didn't believe him, Blennerhassett said, but they started to take him seriously when he asked for a snake handler to meet the plane.

 Blennerhassett was alone on the plane, flying a solo cargo flight, when the un-ticketed passenger popped out.  Air Frontier director Geoffrey Hunt told ABC the plane will be grounded until staff find -- and remove -- the snake.

Very nice deal-Buy your own zip code: U.S. towns for sale

SALMON, Idaho – Buford, Wyoming, the nation’s smallest town, will lose its long-time - and only - resident on Thursday when the outpost along Interstate 80 is auctioned off to the highest bidder. The minimum bid for Buford, 10-plus acres with a convenience store-cum-gas station situated between the capital city of Cheyenne and Laramie, Wyoming, is $100,000 for a sale to take place in town at noon local time. Buford is one of two tiny Western towns to be sold by owners whose spouses have died and whose adult children have moved on.

Pray, Montana, population 8, is on the market for $1.4 million, a price realtors say is a steal for property just north of Yellowstone National Park in the scenic Paradise Valley.

Both communities sprang to life amid Western settlement in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when railroads brought people, supplies and prosperity to frontier towns, some of which failed to flourish despite hype by land speculators. “It’s a quintessentially American story, with westward expansion and land speculation so tightly entwined and towns that boom and bust,” said Stephen Aron, professor of history at University of California, Los Angeles and chair of the Institute for the Study of the American West at the Autry National Center. Don Sammons and his wife, Terry, set out from Los Angeles to a ranch near Buford in 1980 seeking a relaxed rural lifestyle.

The couple drove into the high-elevation town - then owned by an elderly rancher - in a lipstick-red Lincoln Continental. The vehicle, ill-suited to the area’s deep snows and high winds, led locals to surmise Sammons would leave within six months.

What a new way to get interview-Boss faces jail for naked job interviews

A COFFEE bar owner in northern England tried to conduct face-to-face interviews with female job hunters while he was naked. David Richards was facing a jail sentence today after he admitted inviting three female would-be baristas to Rioco's coffee bar in the city of York, then greeting them in the nude.The 53-year-old sent text messages to two teenagers, aged 15 and 16, and a woman in her 30s, who were interested in a job, and arranged to "interview" them on separate days, The York Press reported.When each applicant knocked on the door of his office, Richards was naked, Prosecutor Rob Galley told York Crown Court.

He told them he was in the middle of getting dressed but then attempted to proceed with the job interview without any clothes on. All three of the shocked applicants fled the premises and

complained to the police, who arrested the businessman. Richards initially protested his innocence, but on the day of his trial, he changed his plea and pleaded guilty to three charges of indecent exposure. Judge Stephen Ashurst ordered probation officers to assess the risk Richards poses to other women before sentencing takes place later this month. He said of the three victims: Each was effectively tricked into going to his work premises.

What a nice idea-Big bra hunt for UK 

THE British charity Oxfam is calling on women in the UK to donate their unwanted bras to help females in West Africa. British women are hoarding nearly STG1.2 billion ($A1.85 billion) worth of unworn bras, or nine each, according to Oxfam. The charity's Big Bra Hunt aims to collect one million bras during April with the support of celebrities including Dame Helen Mirren, Zoe Ball and Miquita Oliver.Many of the bras will be sold in Oxfam's high-street shops across the UK to raise money for

the charity's work worldwide. Others will be sent to the charity's Frip Ethique (ethical second-hand clothing) project in Senegal. Oxfam said the complex manufacturing required to make bras meant very few developing countries produced their own, making them one of the most desirable items in West African second-hand clothing markets.A poll for Oxfam found that one-third of all women who have bras they no longer wear keep them because they forget they own them. Ten per cent did not know charities accepted second-hand bras.Oxfam's head of retail brand Sarah Farquhar said: "The Big Bra Hunt hopes to highlight that whilst these bras may not be of use to the average British woman, the jobs created and profits made from the trade and sale of these bras provide a unique opportunity for women in West Africa to provide for their families, send their kids to school and afford vital medicines.''

Very very strange-Petrified postmen ordered to stay away from Snowball the cat

Following a thorough investigation the Royal Mail has stopped its workers from delivering mail to the address after labelling the black and white moggy a 'health and safety risk'.

Despite being described as 'absolutely harmless' by owner Ian Wilkinson, the UK's postal service said Snowball posed an 'unacceptably high level of risk'.

Royal Mail said three employees suffered 'quite deep cuts' after all being attacked by the 10inch tall feline. Mr Wilkinson, 46, said he was shocked when he received a letter from Royal Mail saying its workers would no longer be delivering mail to his home in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire. The letter said the postal ban will continue until he has found a way of stopping Snowball from attacking its workers. The computer analyst said: 'It’s utterly ridiculous.

'I have never seen her attack a person. Sometimes she sniffs people’s feet when they come over for dinner - that’s as vicious as she gets.'

Very Lucky-Woman's silence fuels $656 million lottery claim doubts

Baltimore woman who says she holds one of three winning tickets in the record $656 million lottery held her own news conference on Wednesday but declined to answer questions or produce any proof of the winning ticket — fuelling doubts about her bizarre story.

Mirlande Wilson, 37, arrived at her lawyer’s office nearly an hour late dressed in a stretchy pink shirt, Capri pants and a baseball cap emblazoned with a cartoon pig and the words “Sweet Swine.” Wilson sat silently - sometimes fiddling with her cell phone - while her lawyer pleaded with the media to let his client return to a “normal life” and deflected questions surrounding her bizarre story about winning the Mega Millions jackpot. Wilson has yet to produce the ticket, and even her attorney said he has no visible proof of the ticket. Lottery officials have said three winning tickets were sold in Illinois, Kansas and Maryland but no one has produced a winning ticket yet. “I have not seen it,” said her lawyer, Edward Smith, Jr. “In fact, I don’t think I want to see it until the lottery people have it in their hot little hands.”  He said Wilson showed up late because she had gone to her physician due to “all of the pressure that she’s experienced over the last couple of days.” He would not answer questions about her background, but said she is originally from a village in Haiti.

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