Phone charger burns girl
TWO men were caught smuggling gold and US$383 932 (£280 000) in cash through an airport under their wigs.
They had glued black packets of cash and oneand-half pounds of gold paste to monk-like shaved patches on top of their heads.
Officials also found gold in their socks and inside them after stopping the pair near the exit from southern India’s Chennai International Airport on Monday.
Officials peeled back the fake hair to reveal black packets filled with cash and gold paste glued to their heads.
The pair had arrived from Dubai with the stash.
Baby name regret
A mum who chose a “cool” name for her newborn son was quickly left second-guessing her decision — and after just three months she went through the process of legally changing it.
“Naming remorse” is not a rare feeling for parents after the arrival of a newborn.
Sometimes it does not matter how set mums and dads are on a name, once they begin using it in day-to-day life it can bring a very different feeling.
For one mum, the regret over the name she had chosen for her son became so bad she “cringed” when she had to introduce him.
Kate, from Australia, thought that naming her child Cash had seemed like a “cool idea” at first.
She said: “In my sleep-deprived post-natal delirium, I felt like maybe we could pull it off.
“You know, as a nod to Johnny Cash, even though I could only name one of his songs: ‘I Walk the Line’.”
But after the name had been officially finalised, a few interactions shattered the parent’s illusion of the “cool” moniker.
The first domino to fall was when Apple rolled out its latest iPhone software update, prompting emojis to appear when relevant words were typed, meaning the mum was left staring at a picture of an old-school bag of money when she mentioned her son.
She faced jokes asking if the name was spelled with a dollar sign like music star Ke$ha and it was not long before she was gifted a T-shirt with the slogan “Cash is King”, as reported by Kidspot.
Kate says the final straw came when another parent referred to Cash as a “hipster name”, and it reached the point she “cringed” when she had to introduce him to someone new.
When Cash was three-months-old, his name was legally changed to Reuben and Kate’s friends came forward to admit they were relieved.
Heist gone wrong
Thieves copied the (UK’s) £14 million Hatton Garden gems heist by drilling through a wall to pinch cigarettes from a WHSmith store.
But despite similarities to the April 2015 raid where robbers crawled into a safety deposit vault, the gang’s haul this time was worth a lot less.
The thieves broke into an empty former clothes shop at the weekend (in England), then drilled a three foot hole through a partition wall and smashed down breeze blocks to get inside the WHSmith store.
Owner Mark Bury, who is renovating the former Edinburgh Woollen Mill store, reckoned the raid must have been planned well in advance.
He said: “They obviously got it wrong the first time, as they drilled through the fireplace. I think they knew what they were after. I am told that a lot of cigarettes were taken.
“They went through all the tools on site but it looks like most of those are still here — so obviously they had a target in mind.”
Over the Easter bank holiday weekend in April 2015, a gang broke into an underground vault at a safety deposit facility in Hatton Garden, central London.
The raiders drilled through a thick concrete wall and looted deposit boxes to escape with cash, gems and valuables worth an estimated £14 million.
Nicknamed the Diamond Wheezers due to their advanced ages, seven members of the gang were later jailed.
Phone charger burns girl
A girl (17) was left with burns to her face after an iPhone charger allegedly set her duvet on fire while she was in bed.
Amie Hall, from Birmingham (UK), plugged in her charger as she was falling asleep in the early hours of Thursday morning when it set her duvet “alight.”
The teen says the blaze then caught her face, leaving her with burns on her right cheek.
She ran downstairs to tell her mum, who was fortunately able to extinguish the blaze without fire-fighters.
“I panicked and went and woke up my mum and she managed to put the fire out. After the whole incident, I feel in so much shock. This could have been a lot worse if I was sleeping. At this point I am very scared to plug in my charger now,” she said.
The 17-year-old later shared pictures of the shocking scene on social media.
Her bedding set and charger, which she says was purchased from Apple, can be seen covered in black burn marks, while her cheek has a patch of raw, burnt skin.
In the post, Amie wrote: “. . . this isn’t even a cheap charger, it is an Apple charger. Please don’t go to bed and leave your phone charging overnight . . .”
It is not known whether the charger itself, consisting of an Apple wire and another brand’s plug, caused the fire or whether the socket at her home was faulty.
Apple confirmed it was in touch with the customer and is “looking into the matter.” — Wires.