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A knee-high celebrity cow that became a sensation in Bangladesh has won posthumous recognition as the shortest on the planet just weeks after its untimely demise.
Rani, just 50,8 centimetres high, became an instant internet celebrity with tens of thousands of people rushing to the farm she lived on outside Dhaka for a glimpse of the miniature cow.
But just after its owners applied to Guinness World Records, tragedy struck on August 19 when the beloved bovine suddenly died due to a sudden internal build-up of gas.
The cow’s owner, Kazi Mohammad Abu Sufian, said he received an email on Monday from Guinness World Records saying that Rani’s application had been accepted.
A statement on the Guinness website confirmed the miniature Bhutti world-record cow’s status, beating the previous holder, an Indian cow named Manikyam that stood 61 centimetres from hoof to withers.
“We sent several video of Rani in line with Guinness World Records prescriptions. We have also sent the post-mortem report to the Guinness authorities to see that there was nothing unusual about her death,” Sufian told AFP.
Sufian said he had also sent Guinness Rani’s medical records after they asked whether she had received hormone injections.
“We have mixed feelings after Rani got the recognition. We are happy that she got her due honours. But we are at the same very sad because she is no more with us,” Sufian said.
“Her carer burst out crying as soon as we told him the news.”
‘Fired’ man goes berserk
A video of a man who used a tractor-loader-backhoe, more commonly referred to as a TLB, to destroy a fleet of trucks in spectacular fashion after he was allegedly fired has sparked a lot of comments on social media.
The video has been viewed over 70 000 times on Twitter, with some people commenting that his “selfishness” would cause other people to lose their jobs. Employees and people in the vicinity who came running can be seen looking on aghast at the spectacle.
It was unpaid wages that triggered the destruction.
According to Turkish news site Konhaber, it was a furious coal miner, identified only as Hakan M, who crushed the roofs of five tipper trucks, claiming his boss, who is also his uncle, had not paid his wages for a month.
The incident happened near Mount Cudi, in Turkey’s Sirnak Province, last month.
The trucks are reportedly valued at around US$93 000 each. It is not clear yet whether Hakan will be facing any legal action.
At least Hakan did not go as far as a Florida resident who went totally berserk after being fired.
In 2019, Errol Gray was arrested after he punched and kicked his supervisor numerous times, then threw a chair at a woman outside the office before stealing a truck.
He jumped in the truck and stopped just short of hitting the group of women outside the city hall.
Then there was the notorious Seth Aaron Ator (36) who opened fire after a routine traffic stop in Texas in 2019, killing seven people and injuring 22.
He was fired just hours before the deadly shooting.
Ator had been fired from his job at Journey Oilfield Services after a disagreement, according to police.
The shooting rampage ended when Ator was killed by police.
Four die during
lobola ceremony
A Limpopo family are reeling after four people died when a wall collapsed on guests during a lobola ceremony in GaChuene Thokgwaneng (South Africa) on October 2.
“As the Yika family, we are still in shock about what happened on Saturday. It was supposed to be a celebration day as they were paying a bride price for my sister … it was a lobola negotiation ceremony,” said family spokesperson and brother to the bride, Phinias Yika.
People attending the ceremony were seated in a tent which was positioned next to an unroofed building when strong winds blew.
The wall collapsed, killing three instantly and injuring several others.
One of the injured later died in hospital.
SAPS spokesperson Brig Motlafela Mojapelo said the police in Lebowakgomo have opened an inquest docket, and had identified the deceased as Tiisetso Bushy Macheka (36), Lesego Ribisi of Hwelereng village (18), Phinias Maripane Kganyago of Gamashashane and Samson Sambo, who died at Lebowakgomo hospital.
Yika said the incident happened quickly. It was at about 5pm when the wind started picking up.
He said the tent was not hinged to the wall.
Man returns home
after 47 years
A now-84-year-old man who vanished in 1974 has returned home and expressed disappointment that the two wives he left behind could not wait for him over the 47 years.
Peter Oyuka, a Kenyan man, reportedly left his Makale Village in Malava, Kakamega country in 1974 at age 37.
According to Tuko.co.ke, the now-octogenarian told his people then that he was leaving to search for greener pastures to take care of two wives and five children.
Interestingly, he did not disclose where he was headed and when he would return.
He visited Kakamega in 1983, 1992 and 1996, but failed to return home.
He finally returned on September 21 to realise that his wives had given up on him and gone to marry other men.
“I wish my wives were here today to welcome me home,” Oyuka lamented.
A white goat was sacrificed to pacify the ancestors before he was accepted into his home in accordance with the Luhyia customs.
Although he spent part of 47 years in Tanzania where he fell in love and had a child with another woman, he expected his wives to wait for him. — Wires.
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