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March 01, 2006

Soccer legend dumbfounded... (and other weird news clippings)

I've been very lax in posting of late, so as filler, here are some snippets from the news that I found entertaining in the last week.

Yahoo news - Grandmother Wrestles Croc Australian grandmother was honoured with a bravery award for wrestling a giant saltwater crocodile as it dragged her friend from a tent. Seeing her friend in the jaws of a 4.2 metre (14-foot), 300 kilogram (660 pound) crocodile, Sorohan "did what anyone would do" and jumped on its back. "It was pretty scary. But it's one of those things -- if you see someone in trouble you've got to help them," Sorohan said. "He was a big one. But I would do the same thing again."

IC Wales (UK) - David Beckham (soccer player) comes to terms with innumeracy "Their homework is so hard these days," Beckham said. "I sat down with Brooklyn (aged 6) the other day -- and I was like, 'Victoria, maybe you should do the homework tonight' ... it's done totally differently to what I was teached when I was at school, and you know, I was like, 'Oh my God, I can't do this.'"

He is due to take key-stage tests later this year which may include questions such as subtracting 11 from 50.

Another typical homework question for his age group is working out the change from 50p after buying a pencil costing 24p and an eraser priced at 7p.

Sydney Morning Herald - Person outstares cat nibbling on leg A female rubber tapper working on a Malaysian estate escaped death when she engaged a tiger in a staring match in which the predator was the loser, a newspaper reported today.

"I was tapping a tree and was not aware of the tiger until it sank its teeth on my thigh," said Kaliyama, 57, who lived to tell her story to the Mandarin-language Sin Chiew newspaper.

"Being caught in an awkward position, with hands held high, all I can do was to shout ama ... ama," she said.

At this point, the tiger released its hold on her and stared at her instead. The staring match lasted several minutes, with both human and predator slowly backing away from each other, with the tiger finally disappearing into the estate.

Sify - Paris Hilton is Mother Teresa. Its so perfect, you'll be surprised you didn't think of it first. Malayalam director, T. Rajeevnath, who was searching for a suitable actress to play Mother Teresa in his film on the Nobel Peace laureate, has decided to ask American actress Paris Hilton to play the Saint.

According to sources, the director was impressed when he read a report that the hotel heiress had refused to pose nude in Playboy magazine and decided then to shortlist her. The movie will be mostly shot in West Bengal and several foreign countries.

SBS (Australia) - Sportsmen treated like meat. Romanian second division club UT Arad sold a player in exchange for 15 kilograms of meat, local sport daily Pro Sport reported.

However, fourth division Regal Horia made a bad deal because defender Marius Cioara decided to end his footballing career and take off to Spain to find a job in agriculture or construction.

"We are upset because we lost twice - firstly because we lost a good player and secondly because we lost our team's food for a whole week," a Regal Horia official was quoted as saying by the daily in its electronic edition.

Scrawled illegibly by Meathe at March 1, 2006 02:07 PM

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