Dispensary Corner 23 Jul 10
July 23, 2010
THIS must be handy when doing
metric conversions.
A 12-year-old boy in China is
leading a completely normal life,
despite being born with six digits
on each of his hands and feet.
Ouyang Guangchun from
Songpo in the Hunan province in
China’s south has the very
unusual condition known as
polydactylism - particularly out of
the ordinary because it is rare for
the extra digits to look and
function normally.
“If people don’t look at his
hands or feet carefully they can
hardly tell any unusualness,” said
his mother.
STICK ‘em up, sweetheart.
Police in New York City in the
USA have arrested a man known
as the “bouquet bandit,” who
robbed several banks armed only
with a bunch of flowers.
44-year-old Edward Pemberton
is a suspect in two bank robberies
with CCTV footage of one
incident showing him holding a
large bouquet while handing over
a note telling a staffer to hand
over some cash.
In another incident he
reportedly brandished a large
potted houseplant before making
off with about $2000.
COULD this work to reduce rates
of malaria around the globe?
A village in Poland has declared
war on swarms of mosquitoes - by
attempting to attract insect-eating
bats to the region.
Officials in Lelow have
distributed about fifty special
wooden “bat boxes” to locals.
Kind of like a bird house, the
bat boxes are said to provide an
ideal environment for the flying
mammals to snooze during the
day - before coming out at night
ravenously hungry for mozzies.
“One small bat is able to eat
even 2000 mosquitoes per day,”
said village head Jerzy Szydlowski.
Mosquito numbers across
Poland have soared during the
current northern hemisphere
summer, after major flooding
during May and June.
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