#OddlyOutrageous: Wild And Unexpected

Bulldog Named Winner Of Ugliest Contest

They are great dogs to have but no lookers in the dial department, according to a report.

A nine-year-old English bulldog was named the winner of the 2018 World’s Ugliest Dog contest in the San Francisco Bay Area, says an AP report.

Zsa Zsa won the title at the Sonoma-Marin Sonoma-Marin Fairgrounds in Petaluma.

The dog’s owner Megan Brainard of Anoka, Minnesota, will receive $1,500 for Zsa Zsa’s win. Brainard found Zsa Zsa on a pet-finding site, according to the contest bio.

Dogs in the annual competition flaunt their imperfections – some have hairless bodies, others have lolling tongues. The dogs and their handlers walk down a red carpet. The dogs are evaluated by a panel of judges.

No Sweat! Excretions Have Benefits Too

Your excretions could be beneficial to you, if you let a UK student to get hold of them, says a report.

Struggling to make your fashion more personal? No sweat. A London fashion student can help you decorate your attire with crystal accessories formed from your bodily excretions, says a Reuters report.

Royal College of Art graduate Alice Potts showcased her quirky design methods with a pair of ballet shoes adorned with crystals formed from sweat and a fake fur featuring urine-crystals at the RCA’s annual fashion show.

Potts, who has also experimented with blood, believed the odourless but stomach-turning materials, donated to her by fellow students, had environmental and health benefits beyond the limitations of traditional plastic or cotton.

“Instead of using plastic accessories to maybe embellish garments … we can start like growing onto our garments these new materials and more natural materials,” she said.

Fleeing Man Caught In His Own Trap

Crime doesn’t pay if you make the wrong choices and get pulled up, says a report.

An Ohio man who ran from a traffic stop and then found himself clinging by his hands to a window ledge has been literally caught by police waiting below.

Youngstown police say 21-year-old Dai’ryon Mitchell jumped out of a car and fled on foot when officers responded to a report of multiple gunshots having been fired, says an AP report.

Police say officers chased Mitchell into a home and, while hanging by his hands from a window ledge, tried to pull himself inside when he saw two officers beneath the window. Mitchell instead lost his grip, fell into the officers’ arms and was arrested after a brief struggle.

Making A Meal Of An ATM

Rats can be slinky too with they are up to mischief, particularly inside an ATM machines, reveals a report.

When bank technicians in India were finally summoned to investigate why an ATM (automated teller machine) had not been working for days, they began to smell a rat, says a Reuters report.

What they found inside the ATM was almost $18,000 worth of shredded Indian rupee notes and one dead rodent that had somehow eluded the machine’s security camera for its next, and last, meal, a State Bank of India (SBI) official said.

“The ATM was out of order for a few days and when our technicians opened the kiosk we were shocked to find shredded notes and a dead rat,” said Chandan Sharma, SBI branch manager in the town of Tinsukia in the northeastern state of Assam.

A Snaky Shock For Motorist

Even starting a car may throw up some surprises which can rattle you, according to a report.

An upstate New York man trying to jump-start his car was greeted by an unusual sound coming from his engine — the rattle of a venomous timber rattlesnake, says an AP report.

The man says the snake slithered across the engine block and curled up on the battery as he opened the hood of the car in rural Hancock, on the Pennsylvania border. State environmental conservation police officers were called out to remove the reptile.

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