Daily Mail [UK]
30 December 2019
Antiques Roadshow expert is left stunned after discovering what he
thought was 150-year-old port when he tasted it was actually urine and brass
pins
An Antiques Roadshow [expert]
tasted what he thought was a 150-year-old bottle of port - only to discover it
was actually full of urine, several brass pins and one human hair. Glass expert
Andy McConnell was handed the mysterious bottle during an episode in
Trelissick, Cornwall, after a local found it buried in the threshold of their
house. […] Host Fiona Bruce […] revealed the object was actually a witches'
bottle - which had been buried by the front door of the house to guard against
evil spirits. […]
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Times Herald-Record [Newton, NJ]
31 December 2019
Horse farm owners unsettled
by suspicious activity
An animal sanctuary in Columbia is one of several
farms in Sussex and Warren counties at which employees have recently observed
suspicious behavior from unidentified individuals who they speculate may be
looking to slaughter horses and sell their meat. […] [Tamala Lester, founding
director of The Barnyard Sanctuary,] urged local residents to be alert for ribbons,
chalk marks or any other signs left on fences facing public land, which animal
thieves often use as a signal to others in the group that there is an animal on
the property to be taken. If such markings are found, she said, the person
should immediately notify police. […]
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Daily Mail [UK]
2 January 2020
Passenger is ordered to pay an airline £13,000 as compensation for
throwing two coins at a plane's engine to pray for a safe flight
A Chinese passenger has
been ordered to pay an airline company more than £13,000 as compensation after
throwing two coins at the plane's engine, causing the flight to be cancelled
and more than 160 passengers stuck overnight. The 28-year-old man, named Lu
Chao, was travelling by air for the first time with his wife and son when he
tossed the coinage towards the aircraft in eastern China, according to a
regional court. […] The superstitious man was travelling with his wife and
one-year-old child and was hoping for a safe journey when he threw the money,
Anqing police said in a previous statement. […]
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