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Sandwich gun, singer in a bottle, really stinky fish sauce, $7 to win a house
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Wandering: Singer Katy Perry found herself trapped in a giant inflatable water bottle during her concert in Malta, reports Fashion Times. Perry climbed into the bottle during the performance and was rolled out to crowd-surf across fans, directing them to take her to a matching giant straw located deeper in the audience. But the crowd seemed to ignore her instructions, taking her in random directions instead. She, and the bottle, eventually returned to the stage, having never reached the straw. “I was a little bit worried I was not gonna come back,” Perry said
Oops: A Canadian man spent 18 months in jail because police mistyped an online username, reports CBC. Investigators seeking an online sexual predator subpoenaed the records of Kik platform username fus_ro_dah instead of fus__ro_dah (the second one has an extra underscore after “fus”). This led to the mistaken arrest and conviction of Brandon Klayme, who was finally cleared by a court this week, The court said Klayme “should never have been charged, let alone convicted."
We don’t know you: A Colorado woman who’s health insurance claims keep getting denied has discovered the reason: Her name is too long. Carrie Ann Weinberger Morneault told CBS it took numerous phone calls to learn that her name exceeded a Medicare “character limit.” This has caused her name to be rendered in different ways on healthcare ID cards and insurance claims. "They are like, 'These aren't the same people,' and they wouldn't pay them," she said.
Take a chance: An English couple is raffling off their $2-million, 5-bedroom home outside London, selling tickets for just $7 each, so they can travel with their children, reports the Los Angeles Times. Daniel Leigh and Laurine Vaknine hope the sale of their home will allow them to travel the world, even though they say, “We’re not really travelers.” The winner gets a mortgage-free home with all legal fees and taxes paid, plus $45,000 for household bills. “While someone new makes memories in our home, we get to go and make some of our own,” said Leigh.
Food weapon: A Georgia elementary school suspended a 6-year-old boy with autism after he bit his sandwich into the shape of a gun, aimed it at another student and made shooting sounds, reports Atlanta News First. On other occasions, the school suspended the boy for pointing a water bottle at someone while making gun noises and disciplined him for drawing a pilgrim shooting a turkey. After the sandwich-gun incident, his mother said she was “baffled.”
Something stinks: A Canadian town that has lived with the smell coming from 110 tanks of rotting fish for 20 years is finally getting some relief, reports AP. When the Atlantic Seafood Sauce Company abandoned at St. Mary’s, British Columbia, two decades ago it left behind 3,000 gallons of fermenting fish, producing a smell that has only gotten worse. “The worst rotted fish you ever smelled in your lifetime, times 100,” said the town’s mayor. After years of pleading by local residents, a cleanup of the plant began this week.
