ONCE upon a time it was a trusted medical doctrine to prescribe a course of leeches for virtually any physical ailment, but thankfully very few have remained faithful to its uniform usage over the years.
However there is at the very least one Russian man trying to keep the now very uncommon practice alive, with security agents at Canada's Toronto Airport finding 5,000 leeches secreted in his baggage.
The man spuriously claimed initially that he was bringing the parasitic worms into Canada to help fertilise his orchids with the "waste water" they would create.
That excuse didn't stick with border officials however, who thought the story "sucked", instead suggesting he was intending to sell them for medical purposes. What a leech!
CYCLING may surpass drugs to keep fit and healthy, with one small caveat - not when you're flying over the handle bars.
A lucky bike rider recently had a close encounter with a deer in Arizona while speeding down the side of a mountain.
A GoPro camera captured the incident which saw the galloping huffed mammal charge its way across the road and collect the cyclist along the way.
The rider walked away unscathed, as did the deer which retreated back into the scrub.
View the lucky escape HERE.
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