And other stories from the stranger side of life
Aliens can get to Earth through a “wormhole” in a highly-active Mexican volcano, a Mexican journalist has insisted. Jaime Maussan said two UFOs casually flew into the Popocatepetl volcano in Mexico as its crater spewed lava high into the air. He said the volcano is serving as a gateway between two locations in space, allowing space travellers to enter one place from another, reported the Daily Star. He said that no object of human origin could enter a crater as the temperatures are as high as 1,000C.
Brit arrested for scaling Seoul skyscraper
A British man was arrested after climbing more than half way up the world’s fifth-tallest skyscraper with only his bare hands. More than 90 emergency personnel were sent to the 123-story, 555-meter-tall Lotte World Tower, said the Seoul fire agency. Local media identified the man as free climber George King-Thompson, who was arrested in 2019 after scaling the Shard in London. In 2021, he climbed the 36-story Stratosphere Tower, a residential block in east London, said Huffington Post.
Alligator attacks a drone
An alligator has attacked a drone during a sheriff's office training exercise, reported UPI. The Florida sheriff's office said that its marine unit was using the camera drone for a training exercise in Fort Myers when the drone caught the attention of a nearby alligator. Footage shared on Facebook “shows the gator swimming up to the drone before biting it and thrashing around in the water”, noted the outlet.
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