In the News

A few headlines I saw today:

One-game ban for hair-pulling Ronaldo
Double World Cup winner Ronaldo has been hit with a one-match ban for pulling the hair of an opponent at the weekend. The 32-year-old Brazilian striker tugged the locks of Botafogo midfielder Fahel, who had been pulling at his shirt.

(Serves him right for having long hair in the first place. He can count himself lucky he wasn’t playing rugby)

Exodus Tyson, the four-year-old daughter of former heavyweight boxer iron Mike Tyson has died after accidentally strangling herself.
(Exodus? Oh the iron-y)

Rare white tiger kills New Zealand zoo keeper
A zookeeper was fatally mauled Wednesday by a rare white tiger at a New
Zealand wildlife park. The male keeper was killed by a royal white tiger while cleaning an enclosure at Zion Wildlife Gardens near the city of Whangarei in New Zealand's north.
Police did not name the keeper but he was reported to be South African Dalu
Mncube, who rescued a colleague from another attack earlier this year.

More irony - mauled to death by a rare animal, having earlier saved someone else from the feit that awaited you? Double irony for Dalu.

Facebook fugitive caught after 105 days
The long arm of the law Wednesday finally caught up with a New Zealand fugitive whose 105 days on the run inspired a Facebook fansite, a song and a line of tee shirts.
William Stewart was caught in a rural part of the Canterbury region, on the
South Island, after a farmer found the 47-year-old trying to steal one of his vehicles in the early hours of the morning.
Police quickly swooped on the area and captured Stewart, who was sporting long hair and a bushy beard after more than three months as an outlaw.

I would have gone with outlaw in the headline; one doesn’t get to use that term too often these days. But that’s just me.