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  • VIDEO: McDonald’s customer enraged after delivery boy ‘cancels order’, eats it outside her home

    VIDEO: McDonald’s customer enraged after delivery boy ‘cancels order’, eats it outside her home

    A delivery boy enraged a Mc Donald’s customer after he cancelled a food order and ate it outside her house in Kentish Town, London.       

    According to details, the food chain’s delivery partner ‘Just Eat’ rider ate the customer’s food after cancelling the order.

    A video shared by the customer shows the delivery boy eating the food right outside the customer’s house after cancelling the order. She recorded the video of the driver herself.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88JS-fsrgtE&feature=emb_title

    Later, her brother, CJ, shared the video on Twitter, tagging Mc Donalds and Just Eat in the caption.

    A spokesman of the food chain told The Mirror: “At Just Eat we’re committed to providing a positive experience for all of our customers. When we become aware of any practices that fall below the high standards we expect, we will always take steps to address this. As such, we were concerned to hear about this incident. We are investigating, will take action as appropriate, and are also in contact with the customer.”

    “Most delivery drivers delivering food to customers’ doors are employed directly by independent restaurants. But we do engage with third-party courier companies, agency couriers, and self-employed independent contractors to deliver on behalf of restaurants that don’t have this service,” the spokesperson added.

  • Woman fined for walking husband on leash to escape curfew rules

    Woman fined for walking husband on leash to escape curfew rules

    A Canadian woman took her husband out on a leash in Sherbrooke city, Quebec to evade curfew rules amid COVID-19 lockdown.

    Authorities in Quebec have imposed a curfew between 8:00 pm and 5:00 am in the province with certain exemptions. Essential workers are allowed to travel and people who need to walk their pets are also allowed to go out.

    A woman went out on a walk with her husband on a leash to escape the curfew rules. When the police spotted the couple, they reportedly said: “We are following the rules for pets.”

    The woman claimed that she was walking her “dog”.

    Speaking to a local newspaper, police official Isabelle Gendron said: “The couple did not collaborate with the police at all. Statements of violation of the municipal by-law were given to them. The lady affirmed that she would not pay the ticket and even that she would accumulate them. The number of findings for recidivism can go up to $6,000.”

    They were each fined over Rs 0.194 million, said the police.

  • Surgeon removes 9-inch toothbrush from patient’s stomach

    Surgeon removes 9-inch toothbrush from patient’s stomach

    An Indian surgeon removed a nine-inch long toothbrush from a patient’s stomach after a surgery.

    According to reports, doctors at the Medical College and Hospital (Ghati Hospital) in Aurangabad removed the toothbrush under the supervision of Muslim surgeon Junaid M. Sheikh.

    Rajesh Jadho, 33, had swallowed a toothbrush by mistake. After his ultrasound and MRI were conducted, Dr Junaid, after consulting with other doctors, recommended him to get an operation done immediately.

    Sheikh told Indian media that Rajesh was brought to Ghati Hospital on December 26 at 11 am. The surgeon said that if the brush had not been removed from the abdomen on time, it could have resulted in  an internal rapture. 

    The rupture could have been life threatening, he said. 

  • ‘Angry’ over a family dispute, farmer wills half his property to pet dog

    A 50-year-old farmer in India, Om Narayan Verma has named his second wife Champa Bai and pet dog Jacky as the heirs of the ancestral property after his death as he was troubled by a sustained family dispute.

    The farmer’s will states that he loves Champa Bai and Jacky as they are the only ones who take care of him.

     The will adds that whoever takes care of Jacky will be permitted to use the pet dog’s share in the property to ensure the dog’s well-being and the whoever takes care of Jacky will get the pet’s share of the property after his demise.

    According to details, Verma was angry over a family feud when he made the will but the problems were later resolved.

    “The notarised will not only includes my dog’s name but also my wife Champa Bai’s name. I gave a share of my inheritance to my dog’s to ensure my family takes Jacky’s care even after my death. But, the entire matter has been resolved now,” stated Mr Verma, a former chief of the village.

    Verma owns around 21 acres land and has two wives. While he has two daughters and a son from the first marriage, he has two daughters from the second wife – the one who takes care of him.

  • Blind mystic woman who foresaw 9/11 predicts cure for cancer, assassination attempt on Putin in 2021

    Blind mystic woman who foresaw 9/11 predicts cure for cancer, assassination attempt on Putin in 2021

    A blind Bulgarian mystic Baba Vanga who allegedly foretold the event of 9/11 has predicted a cure for cancer and the attempt to murder Vladimir Putin in 2021.

    She has also claimed that a “strong” dragon will overcome humanity next year.

    The “Nostradamus of the Balkans”, Baba Vanga died in 2000 but is thought to own a mysterious skill to see the coming events.

    Her history, as far as her followers tell, is that this shadowy woman was brought up on a farm known as Macedonia now and was blinded in a dust storm giving her the very “second sight”.

    People say that she foretold the President Donald Trump’s coronavirus illness in October earlier this year and that the Russian submarine Kursk would sink in 1989.

    Preceding her death at the age of 75 in 1996, the Bulgarian mystic told that 2021 would be the year when a cure for cancer would be known claiming that with the start of the 21st century, people will get rid of cancer. “The day will come when cancer will get tied with iron chains.”

    One of her predictions included that the Russian President Vladimir Putin will be the target of an assassination attempt next year, also said that Islamic radicals will step to attack Europe and that the extremists will use an collection of chemical weapons on Europeans also that the world will go through a lot of calamities and excessive tragedies.

    She claimed that the perception of people will have a transformation.

    “Difficult times will come. People will be divided by their faith.”

    The strangest of all her predictions yet is that a dragon will be overcoming humanity in 2021.

    “A strong dragon will seize humanity,” she says. “The three giants will unite. Some people will have red money. I see the numbers 100, 5, and many zeros.”

    Followers of the mystic like to point to her 85 percent accuracy in previous predictions, drawn from research by a former director of the Bulgarian Institute of Suggestology, Professor Georgi Lozanov.

    However, a 2012 Washington Post investigation uncovered that many of the predictions attributed to the mystic have their origins in viral Russian social media posts.

    No credible written version of the Baba‘s predictions is available to view, either.

    According to one Bulgarian newspaper, her neighbours were quick to spike the idea that she predicted 9/11 or the sinking of the Kursk.

  • Picture of widowed penguins comforting each other will warm your heart

    Picture of widowed penguins comforting each other will warm your heart

    A picture of two widowed penguins appearing to comfort each other in Australia has won Oceanographic magazine’s Ocean Photography Awards.

    The photo was taken by German photographer Tobias Baumgaertner in Melbourne.

    He was told that the two penguins had recently lost their partners and they often appeared to be comforting each other through a warm hug.

    The German photographer won the magazine’s Community Choice Award.

    “A volunteer approached me and told me that the white one was an elderly lady who had lost her partner and apparently so did the younger male to the left,” the photographer wrote in an Instagram post.

    “Since then they meet regularly, comforting each other and standing together for hours watching the dancing lights of the nearby city.”

    The photographer spent three nights with the penguin colony to capture this very moment.

    “Between not being able or allowed to use any lights and the tiny penguins continuously moving, rubbing their flippers on each other’s backs and cleaning one another, it was really hard to get a shot,” he said.

    “But I got lucky during one beautiful moment.”

  • Indian police arrest Muslim teen under ‘love jihad’ for walking home with Hindu friend

    Indian police arrest Muslim teen under ‘love jihad’ for walking home with Hindu friend

    The Indian police in Uttar Pradesh arrested a Muslim teenager for walking home with his former classmate, a Dalit girl, from a birthday party after a case was registered for ‘love jihad’ under the state’s new ‘anti-conversion’ law. The boy has been in the custody for a week. 

    The Love Jihad law in India is an Islamophobic conspiracy theory alleging that Muslim men target women belonging to non-Muslim communities for conversion to Islam by feigning love.

    According to details, the 16-year-old girl has constantly rubbished the allegations of ‘love jihad‘, telling the police that the boy was a friend of hers.

    “I have told this to the magistrate and I will say this again. Those men had a problem with me walking with my friend. They made videos of me and are now calling it love jihad. I did nothing wrong. I went of my own free will.” 

    The complaint was allegedly registered by the girl’s father and stated that the accused “induced the girl to elope with him” with the “intention to marry and convert her”.

    However, the girl’s father has denied filing any complaint.

    “I trust my daughter completely. What wrong did she do? Why must she be made part of politics? Is it unlawful for a boy and a girl to walk together now?”

    As per details, the two were walking home from a friend’s birthday party around 10 pm on December 14 when they were allegedly chased by a group of right-wing Hindu men, beaten with sticks and questioned. When the group came to know that the two belong to different religions, they forced them to go to a police station.

    The Muslim boy works as a welder’s apprentice in Dehradun. The police say he is 18 years old but his family says is 17. They have no documents to prove his age.

    “The accused is in judicial custody. If he is a minor, they will have to produce documents to show that. We have invoked appropriate sections in this case after questioning the girl and based on her father’s complaint,” Station House Officer, Dhampur Arun Kumar told The Indian Express.

  • Airline flies passengers to wrong destination

    Airline flies passengers to wrong destination

    A Nepali airline flew its passengers to the wrong destination. Sixty-six passengers who booked their flights to Janakpur reached Pokhara instead.

    As per reports, Buddha Air, a domestic airline, flew from Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu to Pokhara that lies on the northwest side of the country instead of its assigned destination Janakpur, which is in the southern part of the country. The two cities are more than 400-kilometers away from each other.

    An executive officer at the airline Astha Basnet said that the confusion happened due to “lapses in communication and failure to follow detailed standard operating procedure.”

    The airline made the arrangements for the passengers to reach the actual destination. Even though there are no direct flights between Pokhara and Janakpur, the airline was granted special permission to fly there.

    The commuters reached their destination Janakpur a few hours late than the schedule. No mechanical issues with the plane were reported.

    The officials confirmed that the airport staff will receive additional training after the error.

  • COVID-19 reaches the last continent

    COVID-19 has finally reached Antarctica, making it the last continent to be hit by the pandemic.

    Thirty-six people on the continent tested positive for the novel virus. Of those infected, 26 are members of the Chilean army and 10 are civilian maintenance personnel.

    According to Chile’s army and health ministry officials, infected patients were evacuated to the city of Punta Arenas where they have been put in isolation and are under “constant monitoring”.

    Chilean officials are investigating how the virus reached there, said a spokesman for the Health Ministry. He said that so far none of the infected men have had severe symptoms.

  • Kid spends over Rs 2.5 million on video game from mother’s credit card

    A six-year-old boy in the United States who loves playing video games spent nearly $16,000 (Rs 2570393) from his mother’s credit card to buy additional features on his favourite video game Sonic Forces.

    According to reports, Jessica discovered that the transactions worth $16,000 were made in July when her son had started using the iPad for his games and bought add-ons on the games.

    Some of the major transactions were made on July 8 when her son made purchases worth $2,500 on a single day.

    Unaware of the financial burden of her son’s virtual shopping over the month of July, his mother registered fraud claims after she saw that Apple and Paypal were withdrawing huge sums of money from her account.

    However, it was only in October that she got to know that the charges were hers and she needed to get in touch with Apple.

    On blaming Apple, she said that her son did not understand that the money was real.