IT MUST BE TRUE…

I read it in the tabloids

When a Taiwanese restaurant chain offered free, all-youcan-eat sushi to people with Chinese word for salmon, “gui yu”, in their name last year, it unleashed a phenomenon dubbed “salmon chaos”. Some 300 people changed their names to the likes of “Salmon Dream” and “Dancing Salmon” to exploit the twoday promotion. Now, some are struggling to change their names back, due to a law that bans people from changing their name more than three times. Taiwan’s parliament has debated the issue. Not everyone is sympathetic. “Be responsible for your own life, Salmons!” declared one social media user.

A councillor in Wales is so fed up of people thinking he is Banksy that he has resigned. William Gannon, who serves in Pembroke Dock, was rumoured to be the elusive street artist after he admitted his own interest in graffiti. But despite his efforts to disprove the claims, he has been unable to end speculation and is now stepping down, saying his position is untenable. “The problem I have”, he told The Guardian, “is that when I say to people, ‘I am not Banksy,’ I can see this look in their eyes, and they say, ‘That’s what Banksy would say’.”

A sheep has been sentenced to three years in jail for killing a woman. Police in South Sudan explained that they “apprehended” a ram after it attacked a woman, who later died of her injuries. “The owner is innocent... the ram is the one who perpetrated this crime, so it deserves to be arrested,” a local police chief explained.The animal is set to spend the next three years in a military camp.