QUIRKY WORLD ... Happy divorce: Now let’s throw a party
Event planners, bakers, lawyers, and academics have noted the rise of ‘divorce parties’ over the last few years, many with cakes featuring weapon-wielding brides or gloomy black frosting on inverted tiers.
“I’ve taken to naming them freedom fests, as you aren’t celebrating the end of the marriage but the freedom you have chosen in your life,” said Richard O’Malley, a New York-area event planner who organised one divorce party that cost a woman about $25,000
Forty-one people in Philadelphia are facing charges in what prosecutors call an elaborate insurance fraud scheme that used dead deer to fake car accidents.
Ronald Galati Sr is accused of running a $5m scam out of his auto body shop.
District Attorney Seth Williams said that Galati coached customers to claim they’d struck a deer rather than a car. That way, insurance companies would consider them ‘no fault’ accidents and pay the claims without raising the customers’ premiums.
Investigators say Galati stored deer carcasses, blood, and fur in the back of his shop to use as props.
Also charged are Galati’s wife, son, and daughter, several insurance adjusters, tow truck drivers, a city official, and a police officer.
Following a dismal performance in the local and European elections Nick Clegg scored a morale-boosting victory over Ed Miliband by maintaining his dignity when confronted by a bacon sandwich.
The deputy prime minister managed to avoid the Labour leader’s fate as he tucked into his breakfast live on air.
Unlike Mr Miliband, whose efforts to eat a bacon butty on the campaign trail led to a series of unflattering pictures and online mockery, Clegg appeared to cope with the challenge — although he then went on to talk with his mouth full as the LBC radio interview continued.
A zoo in southern Michigan is selling a composted mixture of manure produced by exotic animals.
Binder Park Zoo in Battle Creek is hosting a Zoo Doo event. Horticulturist Frank Cummins said the zoo has compost available from herbivores that will sell at $25 a load to zoo members and $30 for non-members.
A classical trio are hoping to send their audience to sleep with the first performance of a new work.
The group have written the piece especially to encourage listeners to start snoring, and are even supplying cushions and rugs at the Salisbury venue to help them along.
The work, called ‘Sleep’, is by Finnish violinist Pekka Kuusisto, singer Joanna Wallfisch, and sound artist Teemu Korpipaa.
Astronaut Scott Kelly is gearing up for a one-year space station stint next spring. And his twin brother will be offering more than his usual moral support.
Retired astronaut Mark Kelly will undergo medical testing before, during and after his brother’s American record-setting flight.
It is part of an unprecedented study of identical twins. Researchers hope to understand better how prolonged weightlessness affects the body by comparing the space twin with the ground twin.
A welly boot decoration at the entrance of a playground has been chosen as home for a family of birds.
Slimbridge Wetland Centre grounds manager Nathan Dixon spotted the pair of blue tits flying to and from a gatepost leading to the playground Welly Boot Land.
To his surprise, he noticed the pair were flying into one of the boots to feed chicks in the toe.
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