Quirky World: Netanyahu dog quarantined after biting two guests
Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his family had put its dog in quarantine because she bit two guests at a Jewish religious event they hosted.
“We were compelled, with sorrow, to put Kaiya into quarantine, as required by law,” Netanyahu said on Facebook. He added that he had found unspecified flaws in the conditions for canine custody in Israel that he wanted legislation to fix.
The post did not say what fate awaits the 10-year-old mixed breed, which was taken in by one of Netanyahu’s sons from a rescue home earlier this year.
Kaiya bit the husband of Israel’s deputy foreign minister and a lawmaker, both from Netanyahu’s Likud party, at a Hannuka candle-lighting on Wednesday. The latter victim dismissed the incident as “trivial”.
Israel’s Channel 10 TV said Netanyahu was also bitten — an account his spokesmen could not be reached to confirm.
As part of their campaign to bring wifi to crowded public spots in the capital, Moscow, authorities are connecting up cemeteries.
Moscow city hall said free wifi will be available at the city’s three main cemeteries, starting next year. Artyom Yekimov, from a state-owned funeral-directors company, said wifi would attract more visitors to the city’s historic cemeteries, where many illustrious Russians are buried. The internet connection will also help visitors “unwind” at designated places in the cemeteries.
A Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC) and Bar, awarded to Flight Lieutenant John Vere “Hoppy” Hopgood, prior to him taking part in the Dambusters raid in 1943, in which he was killed, are to be sold by auctioneers Morton & Eden, in London, tomorrow. The award, given to the 21-year-old pilot of one of the 19 Lancaster bombers that flew on the daring Second World War mission, could raise up to £40,000 for a project in Uganda that will supply 100,000 people with clean water.
Authorities say three suburban Detroit teachers got sick after eating marijuana-laced brownies put out in a school lounge.
Oakland County sheriff’s officials said on Friday that deputies were called to Spring Mills Elementary School, in Highland Township, on a tainted food complaint. A teacher became ill the day before, and later tested positive for marijuana at a hospital.
Police say two other teachers felt sick, but didn’t seek medical treatment. The deputies recovered the remaining brownies. Tests revealed they contained the active ingredient in marijuana.
Huron Valley Schools officials say they are working with law enforcement to determine who brought the brownies to school. District officials say they don’t know whether they were put out intentionally or by mistake.
A 15-year-old Swiss boy who five years ago turned in a 1,000-Swiss franc (€952) banknote, which he had found in the street, can celebrate a merry Christmas after nobody claimed the money.
“He was very happy. At 15, you know what to do with 1,000 francs,” Thomas Winkelmann, public safety director in the Zurich suburb of Dietikon, said on Friday. The teenager, who was not named, was given the same banknote he had found when he was 10 years old.
Swiss law says property lost in a public place only belongs to the finder if no-one has claimed it after five years. But valuables found on trams or trains belong to the train operator, Winkelmann said.
“Money gets turned in now and then, maybe 50 or 100 francs. But a 1,000-franc note is very rare.”
