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Video – Crocodile which wandered into religious temple was ejected by villagers
A 12ft crocodile which wandered into a religious temple was ejected by villagers - who wrestled it out with their bare hands. The croc walked into the Hanuman temple in search of food after drought caused the nearby Krishna River in southern India to dry up. So locals in the village of Sonna teamed up to evict the unwanted tenant - using ropes and pieces of wood to tie up the beast. Luckily the reptile was exhausted by a lack...
Watch – Couple’s home invaded by a…racoon!
Dad-of-one Marek Chapanionek, 44, was defrosting his freezer at around 11.30pm on Monday (15/5) night when the woodland critter entered his house. The animal then "terrorised" the account manager's property, eating a Nutri-Grain bar from the handbag of wife Caroline, 47, and terrifying two-year-old cat Dotty. Marek even called daughter Katherine, 19, who is a second-year politics student at the University of Reading, as the creature rummaged through her bedroom drawers. Eventually the unwelcome guest settled down in Dotty's cage,...
Watch – Controlled detonation carried out on WW2 bomb
Incredible footage of the Birmingham Second World War bomb being detonated - from a drone flying hundreds of feet above the scene. West Midlands Police released the astonishing clip, hours after a two-day drama came to an end when army experts safely blew up the 550Ib German bomb . The clip shows the potentially-deadly explosive being detonated - with huge plumes of sand and smoke flying into the skies. Meanwhile, it has been revealed the device was one of the...
Watch – Pig that was given weeks to live taken in by a kind-hearted owner
A pig that was given just weeks to live has been saved after being taken in by a kind-hearted owner. Emily Keates, 25, fell in love with wild boar cross Fella after fearing he was destined for the slaughter house. She paid £70 to take him home – only for him to be diagnosed with depression and three tennis-ball sized cancerous tumours on his abdomen. But despite being given just a fortnight to live in January, he has shown no...
Watch – Naked woman spotted drunkenly dancing around a war memorial
The mystery nude was seen shouting at a group of young men before stripping off and cavorting around the memorial and street. Liam Rogan, 22, filmed the lairy luvvie at the war memorial in Sheerness, Kent, just after 8pm on Sunday. The next day marked the surrender of Nazi Germany and its allies ending the war in Europe. The kiosk worker, who lives in Sheerness, said: "I was waiting for my mum to pick me up from my girlfriend's house...
Villagers left baffled by £50k Maserati left abandoned in village hall car park
Villagers have been left baffled by a £50,000 Maserati which has been parked in the same place for more than a week. The luxury white sports car first appeared in a village hall car park last weekend - but still hasn't been moved eight days on. The two-door Maserati Ghibli was perfectly parked by the driver who reversed the vehicle into a bay before abandoning it. But the car has a private registration plate which residents in East Hanningfield, Essex,...
Watch – Boy vying for world record for most flexible man
Yash Shah, 18, started training himself in contortion as a child by watching videos and tutorials online. He claims he can turn his head half way round and videos show him bending him arms and legs into bizarre shapes which make it look like he has no bones. He can do front press ups with his legs facing the 'wrong' direction, and wrap his arms around his waist - despite them being crossed behind his back. The flexible lad can...
Watch – Car rolls backwards in heavy traffic & mounts a tree
A hapless driver was caught on dashcam running down a steep hill after his car - that rolled backwards through traffic and smashed into a tree. The silver car ended up half way up a tree after miraculously avoiding two lanes of stop-start traffic as it rolled at speed down the steep road. The driverless motor, which was being chased by a man and a woman, thought to be the driver and a passenger, clipped the sloping edge of a...
Watch – Herd of alpacas given hilarious hairdos
A herd of alpacas have been given hilarious hairdos - including one styled to look like a poodle and another like a DINOSAUR. Helen Kendall Smith, 53, cut ten of the 30-strong flock's locks to celebrate her tenth year of breeding the animals. The mum-of-three, of Cirencester, Glos., sketched some whacky designs before professional shearers turned her ideas into reality using clippers. One of the alpacas was fashioned to look like a poodle, another was given a stripey coat like...