The Dubai Mall, the world’s largest mall, which is just outside the world’s tallest building, has a showcase 10-millkion-liter aquarium with 33,000 living animals (over 400 sharks)) and boasts the world’s biggest single viewing panel (32.8m wide and 8.3m high). Much of that tank is now on the floor of the Dubai Mall after a crack flooded the mall. The lower-ground and ground floor areas were cordoned off and cleaners were seen mopping the floor.Many shops are now repairing damages from the flooding.
Poetic irony update: Spencer Tunick — noted for his mass public nude photos — arrived in Australia to find that his clothes didn’t make the trip with him. Only fitting if he’s forced to shoot the photo naked — for a change.
A British Airways flight from Barcelona to London made an emergency landing after the pilot noticed a strange smell in the cockpit.
It became clear something was wrong when the pilot used the PA to summon a senior officer “immediately.” Then the cabin went dark and everyone began to panic just before landing back at Barcelona, 20 minutes after take-off.
A British Airports Authority employee decided to circumvent the standard security screening and ushered passengers through a side door, according to The Sun newspaper (and supported by footage from CCTV). This allowed the passengers on a BA flight from Rome to collect their luggage and leave Terminal 5 without passport or border checks. The staff struggled to catch up with the unchecked passengers but 61 left the airport unaccounted for.
The security official in question is now reportedly unemployed.
An Orthodox Jew wearing a little sacred box containing bible verses on his head — a phylactery, part of an Orthodox tradition — started a bomb scare on a Chautauqua Airlines jet (in partnership with US Airways) from New York to Louisville, Kentucky, which diverted the flight to Philadelphia.
The flight crew thought his loud praying and the “suspicious” box on his head were a lethal combo.
Who brings a fully cooked chicken on a plane? Someone just wacko enough to prompt further investigation. And the additional inspection turned up — surprise! — $4300 worth of cocaine inside the chicken. So much for secret stuffing.
The stash was detected by Customs and Border Protection agents at Dulles International Airport.
How about when Jetstar Airline (budget sidekick to Qantas) made Paralympian Kurt Fearnley check his wheelchair, forcing him to drag himself through an airport and onto the plane. They did, in the end, offer an apology for any “embarrassment and hurt” that was caused by the incident.
Hard to say what was going through the mind of a 25-year-old man who climbed down into a bear enclosure at the Bern Park zoo in Switzerland. That is, besides the fangs of the bear. Apparently, he wanted to have a picnic with the bear — and he did. He was the lunch. Sadly, the bear was shot while saving this lunatic’s life.
The BBC reports that a Brit was arrested at Rio de Janeiro’s airport when he attempted to smuggle at least 1,000 live spiders (many of them tarantulas) out of Brazil in his luggage. In Brazil, animals are banned from export without permission.
The man, a pet shop owner, was caught when security X-rays detected the spiders in two separate suitcases. (Lesson: animals show up on security X-rays.)
He’s out on bail but faces up to a year in prison and a max fine of $2.3 million.
According to Swedish TT news service, a man decided to sleep off a hangover by taking a nap on the railroad tracks outside of the Swedish town of Borås. He was woken by a train as it hit him in the head. However, the man only sustained minor injuries. In fact, he went back to sleep after the train passed. The train’s driver feared the worst and rang the police. When the police arrived, they found a sleeping man with a head wound on the side of the tracks. “He had woken up when the train came, raised his head and hit it on a metal object on the train. Then he went back to sleep,” police officer Sven Persson told TT.
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