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dmb · Joined: 12 Feb 2003 Posts: 8397

In the past week I have read or heard a few weird stories about goings ons in our beloved Turkey.
apparantly big news back in the Uk is the story of a toddler being killed by a fire eater down south somewhere.

I read last week 17 people died because they fell off their rooves. (They were sleeping there to try and escape the heat)
Then there is the guy in Sinop who covered himself in Kolonya to cool down... then lit a cigarette and well ended up the burns unit.

Anymore interesting summer stories?

Baba Alex · Joined: 17 Aug 2004 Posts: 2411

Freddie Miles · Joined: 09 Aug 2006 Posts: 91

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ANKARA (AFP) - A six-metre (20-foot) python, which went missing from the Ankara Zoo two months ago, triggering a frantic search, has finally been found napping near its cage. The python had disappeared on June 10 after a security guard opened the hole used to feed the snake because the animal seemed to be in discomfort and walked away without shutting it.

The incident had forced the closure of parts of the zoo and led to a criminal investigation into whether it had been stolen.

An extensive search of the zoo grounds, with thermal cameras, turned up nothing and a cabinet minister suggested at the time that the snake might have ended up through a kebab merchant's meat grinder and advised against eating shish kebab.

On Thursday, zoo officials finally located the animal sleeping in the ventilation shaft of its cage when they noticed discarded snake skin outside the shaft, reports said.

The python, which weighs about 70 kilograms (155 pounds), was returned to its cage Saturday after a one-hour effort by six staff to catch him, they added.
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Notes:
I suppose after this, the security guard will be promoted to the lion house.

ak_tesl · Joined: 24 Jun 2005 Posts: 50

On a similar note, yesterday I saw a family of six riding on a motorbike: father, mother, and 4 children ages 8 to 12. They were basically holding onto each other.

justme · Joined: 18 May 2004 Posts: 1944 Location: Istanbul

How about all these cars driving into holes dug by the city and then not marked?

Jeez, can't they even put a small pile of rocks to indicate the safety hazard?

FGT · Joined: 14 Sep 2003 Posts: 762 Location: Turkey

Not about Turkey, but stranger than fiction nonetheless.

Second goat story this week:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4748292.stm

Not drowning, but....
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/5326478.stm?lsm