‘Twitter won’t let me change my name’ says Twitter owner
What the rook as plot pebbles pinched
CHIEF TWIT: Elon Musk
ELON Musk has changed his Twitter handle to “Mr. Tweet” – and claims he can’t turn it back.
The billionaire – who owns the social media giant – has been ribbed by fans after moaning he is stuck with it.
He tweeted: “Changed my name to Mr. Tweet. Now Twitter won’t let me change it back”.
And his 127 million followers were quick to laugh at his tech troubles. One wrote: “If only you knew someone that works there.”
Another added: “Now you have no choice but to change it in your legal documents too!”
Slip A MAN believes thieving crows left him €1,500 out of pocket after thousands of decorative stones vanished from a grave at his family’s plot in a cemetery.
Dermot Mitchell was putting the finishing touches to the final resting place of his parents and two brothers in Kilcroan Cemetery in Ballymoe, Co Galway and spared no expense in splashing out on black and white ornamental ceramic stones expected to last a lifetime.
Delighted with the end product, Dermot was left baffled when a little over a month later the grave had been stripped almost entirely, ‘CULPRIT’: Experts blame the crows with all the white polished pebbles going missing and later the black ones in the incident last September. “This was for a lifetime I had done [the decoration],” he said. “Or I was told this was a lifetime thing. I was sick for a month afterwards.
“I’m half-embarrassed with the way it’s left, but I don’t know what to do with it,” revealed Dermot.
Initially, he felt heartless thieves were behind a robbery at the grave and he called gardai . However, after research online, Dermot is now convinced that the grave-robbers aren’t human but instead are crooks with wings. In his investigation, Dermot noticed similar incidents in the west of Ireland in places such as Castlebar, Co Mayo, and Donegal in the past and attributes this theft to birds.
“I was told by the person who did the grave that they had a problem like this two years ago,” he said.
Tough
Some theories exist suggesting cunning crows believe the polished stones to be eggs and they bring the pebbles away to their nest.
Others reckon some birds, especially rooks, use stones to break up their food by swallowing them into their gizzards to digest tough materials.
And another belief is that magpies are nicking the shiny objects.
Either way, Dermot is out of pocket and the grave now remains bare as he mulls over a solution.
“I want to try and get it back looking as good,” he said.
“Because, really, it looked beautiful. But I don’t want to spend another €1,500 and the birds to take it again.
“The person who did the grave has washed his hands of it.
“He did say that they’ve come up with a way around it — the same ceramic but broken up. It doesn’t look as well, though.
“This was beautiful long.
“It was an expensive lesson.” but it didn’t last