Quirky World ... Tourist guide jumps into swamp to feed alligators

USA: Tourists on a swamp boat tour in south Louisiana gasped as their guide jumped into the water to feed chicken and marshmallows to two alligators-

At one point, the guide put a marshmallow in his mouth and lets one of the alligators snatch it away.

The scene was captured on video by Stacy Hicks of St Helens, Oregon, who visited the area in May.

“When he jumped in, I was a little scared, more for him than us though. I am surprised at the attention this video has gotten. I just thought that this was a thing that happens all the time on the tours.”

The video has been shared more than 100,000 times on Facebook. It also has attracted attention of local and state wildlife officials.

There is no state law prohibiting luring and feeding of alligators, but it’s against local law in Jefferson Parish, where the Airboat Adventures tour company is based.

A spokesman for the company declined to comment.

USA: Three people, including a daughter, are accused of ransacking the grave of a New Hampshire businessman in search of his “real will”, only to find a pack of cigarettes in his hand.

Eddie Nash died of a heart attack in 2004 at age 68. His cement vault at the Colebrook Village Cemetery was found cracked last month, the casket opened and his remains searched through. The body was left intact.

Ginette Dowse, 71, Michael Day, 37, and Nash’s daughter, Melanie Lynch, 52, have been named.

SCOTLAND: More than £10,000 (€12,400) of whisky has been stolen from a distillery’s visitor centre.

A number of bottles of “unusual” whisky were taken from the Glenglassaugh distillery in Portsoy, Aberdeenshire, during the incident earlier this week. Among the bottles taken were 37-year-old and 40-year-old Glenglassaugh malt whiskies.

Four pot stills& are also missing. Constable Geraint Kalies said it was “a very unusual theft”.

USA: A woman wants to give her daughter an awesome middle name — literally.

Lisa Flores, from Juneau, Alaska is seeking court approval to legally change her daughter’s middle name to Awesome, to replace the given middle name of Contea for Viviana Flores, two.

Her mother allowed her 11-year-old brother to initially pick out his sister’s name. Dominic initially wanted her first name to be Danger. He came back with Awesome but Lisa picked Contea, but she now wants the name changed to honour her son’s wishes.

ENGLAND: Bats are causing a “menace” to churches and it is time for a fightback against nature lovers, a Conservative peer has said.

Lord Cormack warned against turning “historic churches into bat barns”. He said the animals were “a particular menace to many old churches” pointing to cases where “remarkable 15th-century brasses” were being corroded by bat droppings.

USA: Volunteers have set up a “toad detour” in Philadelphia to ensure the safety of thousands of baby toads as they hop across a busy residential street.

They are trying to get to woods on the other side during their annual migration through dense vegetation from an abandoned reservoir where they were born.

The roadblock reroutes cars so the animals — each about the size of a raisin — can cross the two-lane road safely.

USA: An Arizona man arrested for unlawfully discharging a firearm told authorities that he was trying to shoot the moon.

Police responded after a woman and her teenage son told police her boyfriend was talking about seeing Halley’s Comet and fired a round out of the window. They heard more shots before fleeing.