Artist makes seeminly edible art from wood

You couldn’t tell by simply looking at them, but the fish, toast and various
other foods depicted below are actually just blocks of wood expertly hand-
carved and painted by Japanese artist Seiji Kawasaki.

Man Captures a python that bit him two days ago

Karl Davies laughs while helping to catch the python that bit him in the leg during a hike in Hong Kong. Screenshot: Karl Davies/Facebook

 

 A British man who was bitten by a python while hiking in Hong Kong returned to the same spot with a trapper to capture the 14-foot-long snake.

Karl Davies, 49, posted a video to Facebook showing him helping professional snake catcher Dave Willott capture the large python at the side of a trail in the Sai Kung district Wednesday, two days after he first encountered the snake.

Davies said he was walking his two border collies with friend Andrew Chambers when the python, which he had spotted during previous walks, made its appearance.

"I walked past the place I'd seen the snake before and it wasn't there," Davies told the South China Morning Post. "The next thing -- bang! -- The python jumped out of the bush and sank its teeth into my leg. It got me around the lower calf."

He said getting the snake, which he nicknamed Kaa-rl, to release its grip proved difficult.

"Andrew started shouting and screaming 'Get out of here, get out of here.' He gave it a couple of kicks and threw a stone at it but missed and hit me on the ankle.

I tried to [pry] the snake's jaws off my leg and punctured two fingers, and then I tried to smack it on the head with the stone that Andrew threw and that didn't do any good either.

I dragged my leg along to drag it off and then I tried to run with it to see if I could shake it off. By then the snake was starting to coil. I dragged it full length into the path and I fell down, and I saw it again trying to coil itself. As I got up, that's when it fell off."

Davies, who plays rugby for a club in Hong Kong, joked the encounter, was a great training exercise.

"It was like pulling dead weight. It should be a training regime for rugby players -- snake on the leg," he said.

Davies was released after about six hours in at Tseung Kwan O Hospital.

The snake, which has been blamed for numerous attacks on dogs in the area, was taken to the Kandoorie Farm and Botanic Garden, where it was measured at 14 feet long and weighed in at 51 pounds.

 

Giant monitor lizard pays visit to Thai family's front door

NONTHABURI, Thailand, June 17 (UPI) -- A shocked family in Thailand took video of an unexpected visitor at their front door: an enormous monitor lizard pressing its body against the door.

Attanai Thaiyuanwong posted a video to Facebook showing the human child-sized monitor lizard with its belly pressed against the front door as if it intended to knock.

Thaiyuanwong's family can be heard having a shocked and amused conversation while observing the lizard, which elicits screams from its audience by moving its tail.

 

Thaiyuanwong said the lizard has made repeated visits to his family's home.
"It [the lizard] is here all the time. There are even bigger ones!" Attanai told Coconuts Bangkok. "We call it Selena after [Selena Gomez], the celebrity my sister likes."

 

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After a fatal attempt on her life, paralysed cat showed her will to live

           This mom cat recently suffered the most brutal attack after she accidentally wandered into the wrong yard in Australia. The man who lived on the property allegedly grabbed the stray cat by the tail and threw her up against a trailer.

         The cat was thought to be dead, so her 1-week-old kittens were collected by an animal rescue group. However, the next day the most unbelievable thing happened. The cat started dragging herself using only her front paws to the spot where she last saw her babies.

         The local RSPCA picked up the mom immediately and reunited her with her kittens. Now named Princess, the cat is sadly paralyzed for life. Sawyers Gully Animal Rescue’s owner Dee Walton is going to take care of her for good, as the poor cat has very special needs. She can’t even urinate or defecate on her own.

      The man responsible for this tragedy was arrested and there are plans to get Princess her own wheelchair. For now, the poor cat can take comfort in nursing her loved babies. “Princess is a fighter, she teaches me everyday not to give up,” Walton told the Dodo. “I believe those kittens gave her the will to live.”

Brave cat, awesome mum!

If we can make instant coffee why not make instant beer

 SodaStream has been selling home carbonation machines that let you turn
tap water into soda for over two and a half decades, and now it looks all
set to enter the beer market, as well. The company has apparently come
up with an instant beer concentrate that works with their soda machines,
allowing anyone to turn water into beer at the press of a button.

The new Beer Bar kit turns SodaStream machines into microbreweries,
enabling you to create crafted beer in seconds by simply adding a unique
“Blondie” concentrate. The resulting brew has 4.5% alcohol content and
allegedly has a “smooth authentic taste and a hop-filled aroma.” According
to a company statement, one liter of Blondie yields three liters of cold
brewski.

“We are excited to launch a brand dedicated to serving the global growing
trend of home crafted beer,” Chief Executive Officer of SodaStream Daniel
Birnbaum said. “Our core carbonation technology and distribution
infrastructure provide a great platform for us to extend our business into
this emerging category, and we choose to do so with a dedicated beer
brand.”
But instant beer has a somewhat cheap sound to it, so to get the market’s
reaction to Beer Bar before an expensive worldwide launch, SodaStream is
first testing it in Germany and Switzerland. It is expected to roll out in
other markets later this year and in early 2017.

culled from odditycentral

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