The exotic chicken that was saved from drowning by mouth-to-beak resuscitation more than three months ago has died, her owner said. Boo Boo, the chicken who was revived after she was found floating beak down in the family pond in February, died recently, said owner Jackie Calhoun. The fowl’s story was featured on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and the Animal Planet network. “She had seizures,” Calhoun said. “I’ve come to the conclusion that’s what put her in the pond in the first place.” In February, Calhoun said he removed the chicken from the water and his sister Marian Morris blew into its beak, causing its eyes to pop open. Morris, a retired nurse, said she hadn’t used cardiopulmonary resuscitation in years. She said she was glad that the chicken she saved was exotic and not just an ordinary chicken. The bird, who was named Boo Boo because she was easily frightened, lived to lay three eggs before dying, Calhoun said.
Lithuanian police were so astonished when they pulled over a truck driver and his breathalyzer test registered 18 times the legal alcohol limit that they thought their testing device must be broken. It wasn’t. Police said Tuesday 41-year-old Vidmantas Sungaila registered 7.27 grams per litre of alcohol in his blood repeatedly on different devices when he was pulled over for driving his truck down the centre of a two-lane highway 100 kilometres from the capital, Vilnius, on Saturday. Lithuania’s legal limit is 0.4 grams per litre. “This guy should have been lying dead, but he was still driving. It must be an unofficial national record,” Saulius Skvernelis, the director of the national police traffic control service, told the AP. “He was of high spirits and grinning the whole time he was questioned.” Medical experts say anything above 3.5 grams per litre of alcohol in the blood is lethal for most people. “A person this intoxicated should be in an intensive care unit, not behind the wheel,” said Tautvydas Zikaras, head of the dependence illness centre in the country’s second-largest city, Kaunas. Zikaras said he had never heard or read of someone being so drunk. Sungaila, who was slapped with a fine equivalent to about $1,230 Cdn and the loss of his licence for up to three years, told police he had been drinking the night before and tried to freshen up by downing a pint of beer for breakfast.
Jag owner’s showing off goes too far. A family in Brisbane’s western suburbs were less than happy when their neighbour dropped in last night, while still in his car. Police say the 58-year old Forest Lake man was testing his new x-type Jaguar when he accidentally reversed through his neighbour’s bedroom. He then continued driving at speed through a bedroom wall, into his own home. No-one was hurt in the accident, but the two homes were extensively damaged.
