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Money-making cat!

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Eric Nakagawa was having

a bad day when his friend Kari Unebasami sent him a picture of a

grey cat with the words ‘I can has cheezeburg­er?’ on it, hoping to cheer up

her pal. Eric, from Hawaii, found the meme so hilarious

he shared it online and peopl e loved it so much, it sparked an idea. Quickly snapping up the domain name icanhasche­ezeburger. com, Eric and Kari began creating similar cat pictures and posted them on the website, with the memes quickly going viral worldwide. It was so successful they went on to sell the business for US$2 million!

Stop dumping

Donations dumped outside closed charity shops create mountains of waste and headaches for charities forced to use limited finances and volunteers to sort, store or dispose of the items.

visitors’ centre before setting off said there’d be a bit of scrambling at this point. Clambering up, the view was stunning.

Taking it in, I drained my water bottle.

I’d broken the handle, and it was going to be a pain to carry, so I stashed it in my bag.

Thankfully, I still had heaps of water left in my hydration pack.

Getting ready to scramble down the other side of the boulders, I tested my foothold.

But putting my weight on it, my boots slipped.

I panicked, as gravity took over, and

I began to slide.

You’re about to get hurt, my brain screamed, as I plummeted over the edge.

Dropping 8 metres,

I landed with a crunch on my back, my bones breaking on impact. Pain shot through my body.

Wiggling my toes, I knew I wasn’t paralysed.

But, besides that,

I couldn’t move – I’d shattered my pelvis.

Grabbing my phone out of my bag, which had landed right next to me, my hands were shaking.

But, in the middle of the desert, I had no service.

‘Help me, please!’ I screamed.

Opening up the GPS maps on an app, the little blue dot showed exactly where I’d fallen.

I’m not on the trail,

I realised with horror.

Along the way, I must have taken a wrong turn.

It meant there was very little chance of anyone coming across me.

I was trapped – all alone – in the blazing hot desert.

Already, a hawk circled menacingly above.

A wounded animal, my position in the food chain had dropped substantia­lly…

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