Tony Perkins.
A flood has destroyed the home of a Christian lobbyist who preached that God sends natural disasters to punish gays. President of the controversial Christian group Family Research Council, Tony Perkins, described a deluge of “near biblical proportions” hitting his Louisiana home.
US pastor Tony Perkins, who believes natural disasters are sent by God to punish gay people, has fled his flooded home in Louisiana.
In 2015 he caused controversy when he agreed with a statement that natural disasters are sent by God as punishment for abortion and gay marriage. Mr Perkins has revealed that he was forced to escape his property in a canoe with his family. He shared photos on Facebook and discussed his experience in a podcast. "This is a flood of near-biblical proportions," he said in an interview with the Family Research Council. "We had to escape from our home Saturday by canoe. We had about 10 feet of water at the end of our driveway. Our house flooded, a few of our cars flooded."
US Pastor Tony Perkins had no choice but to escape his home in a canoe..
Extreme Messianic Jewish pastor Jonathan Cahn.
In 2015, he interviewed extreme Messianic Jewish pastor Jonathan Cahn who told him that Hurricane Joaquin, which devastated Hawaii last year, was a "sign of God's wrath". During the interview, Mr Cahn stated that the storm was a sign God was angry about the legalisation of gay marriage and abortion and the relationship between the United Nations and Israel. He's quoted as agreeing, adding "God is trying to send us a message". The Red Cross has called the Louisiana floods the worst natural disasters in the US since Hurricane Sandy in 2012. Shocking footage from Baton Rouge in Louisiana shows dramatic rescues in the ravaged state.
Hurricane Joaquin badly damages 6 Adventist churches in The Bahamas.
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Deacon Taylor points to the damage his church sustained in San Salvador caused by Hurricane Joaquin.
Hurricane Joaquin flooded buildings and ripped off roofs amid two days of fierce winds of up to 140 miles an hour (225 kilometers per hour)
Albert Town Long Cay was almost destroyed.
The storm also caused a horse to get stuck in a fence..
Neopalpa donaldtrumpi, - "The reason for this choice of name is to bring wider public attention to the need to continue protecting fragile habitats in the U.S. that still contain many undescribed species, a fish native to the coral reefs of northwestern Hawaii was named after current U.S. President Barack Obama in honor of his efforts to protect the fish's habitat.
President Barack Obama.
A small moth with a yellowish-white coif of scales has been named after U.S. President-edit Donald Trump, in honor of the former reality TV show host and real estate magnate's signature hairdo. The new species, dubbed Neopalpa donaldtrumpi, lives in a habitat that spans southern California and Mexico's Baja California and was named by evolutionary biologist Vazrick Nazari in an article published in the scientific journal ZooKeys.
The moth, the second species of a genus of twirler moths, can be distinguished by the yellowish-white scales on the head of its adults, according to the journal.
"The specific epithet is selected because of the resemblance of the scales on the frons (head) of the moth to Mr. Trump's hairstyle,"
A tourist who joined in the search after a member of her bus party went missing was able to help track the woman down - when she realised it was herself they were looking for. The woman was declared missing from a party touring the Eldgja volcanic region in south Iceland after getting off the party's bus to freshen up. She only hopped off the bus breifly, but had also changed her clothes - and her fellow travellers did not recognise her when she climbed back on again to continue the party's journey. Soon the search began for a woman described as Asian, around 160cm, in dark clothing and speaking English well, When the details of the missing person were issued, the woman reportedly didn't recognise her own description and unwittingly joined the search party for herself. After a night-long operation involving around 50 people, the 'missing woman' eventually realised she was the source of the search and informed police. The search began on Saturday, but was called off at around 3am on Sunday morning when the woman, who has not been identified, realised she was the subject of the frantic efforts.
The volcanic canyon Eldgja is the largest volcanic canyon in the world, 270m (886 ft) deep and 600m (1969 ft) wide at its greatest. It is a beautiful and adventurous natural wonder to visit when in Southeast Iceland.
The name “Eldgja” translates as “Fire Canyon” in English. Situated in the wilderness between Landmannalaugar and Kirkjubaejarklaustur, Eldgja is the largest volcanic canyon in the world. The Icelander Thorvaldur Thoroddsen discovered Eldgja in 1893. The first documented eruption of the area was in 934; it remains the largest basalt flood known in history. Geologists estimate that 18 cubic meters (636 cubic ft) of lava poured out of the earth.
Eldgja Waterfall. There is a waterfall named Ofaerufoss within the canyon. This distinctive two-tiered waterfall cascades into Eldgja. A natural bridge across the waterfall vanished in 1993 due to excess water from melting ice.
Eldgja, which means "fire canyon" in Icelandic, is well named. It is a volcanic fissure that has created a deep and wide canyon.
The Land of Ice & Fire (Part 35 - Eldgjá / Ófærufoss)
The Land of Ice & Fire (Part 35 - Eldgjá / Ófærufoss)
They told the customers the tickets were made from solid gold and each ticket reserved the buyer a spot in heaven. They told the buyers that all they have to do is to simply present the ticket at the pearly gates and the doors would be open for them to walk in. Police were said to have confiscated over $10,000 (Appprox £7,000) in cash, five crack pipes and a baby alligator. A police spokesman allegedly said: “People can sell tickets to heaven. But the Watts’ misrepresented their product. The tickets were just wood spray painted gold with ‘Ticket To Heaven – Admit One’ written in marker. “You can’t sell something as gold when it’s not. That’s where the Watts crossed the line into doing something illegal.” In a statement to the police, Tito Watts reportedly said: “I don’t care what the police say. The tickets are solid gold… it ain’t cut up two by fours I spray painted gold. “And it was Jesus who give them to me behind the KFC and said to sell them so I could get me some money to go to outer space. I met an alien named Stevie who said if I got the cash together he’d take me and my wife on his flying saucer to his planet that’s made entirely of crack cocaine.”
The statement went on: “You can smoke all the crack cocaine there you want… totally free. So, try to send an innocent man to jail and see what happens. “You should arrest Jesus because he’s the one that gave me the golden tickets and said to sell them. I’m willing to wear a wire and set Jesus up.” As funny as it may sound, it turns out the story was completely made up in honour of April Fools.
As an update to their original report on the Watts’ golden ticket business, the Jacksonville Sun Times, wrote: “This story turned out to be an April Fool’s joke, and unfortunately we fell for it. The story, which several other websites also reported as fact, originated on March 31 with the website Stuppid.com, and the photos of the fictional ‘Tito and Amanda Watts’ came from this 2011 collection of bizarre mug shots. We apologise for publishing false information and regret this error.”
A drunk woman claimed she was a pirate as she hijacked a passenger ferry and floated away from police while shouting ‘I’m Jack Sparrow.’ Alison Whelan, 51, stole the 100-seater ferry on the River Dart in Devon after she had been drinking Lambrini and eating deadly plant nightshade for two days, causing her to hallucinate. She shouted ‘I’m Jack Sparrow’ and ‘I’m a pirate’ after she unmoored the Dart Princess Passenger Ferry, a 45ft vessel, with companion Tristam Locke from the Kingswear pontoon and set off up the river.
The pair could be heard laughing and shouting from the deck ‘what are you going to do now?’ and ‘I believe this is out of your jurisdiction’. Whelan of Paignton, Devon was sentenced to 112 days in jail for the incident which saw the ferry bumping into other boats ‘like a pinball machine’ in a police chase that lasted an hour. More than 30 ambulance, police, coastguard and RNLI officers were drafted in during the incident, Torquay Magistrates Court in Devon heard. Speaking after the hearing, PC Clare Pearson said: 'This lady put the police, ambulance and coastguard to an awful lot of trouble. 'The amount of people called out to recover the boat and the damage caused to other vessels made it quite an expensive night.' Before the duo unmoored the boat, Whelan, who is a chronic alcoholic awaiting a liver transplant, called paramedics in the early hours of September 10 last year 2011 after fearing she was having a seizure.
Unmoored boat: Whelan and companion Tristam Locke unmoored the Dart Princess Passenger Ferry, centre, which bumped into other moored boats before finally stopping about a mile upstream with the pair onboard
Poisonous Deadly Nightshade
River Dart Country Park, Ashburton, Devon.
Paramedics said they found the defendant ‘rambling’ and obviously drunk while Locke became abusive and pushed over one of the medics. Ambulance technician Peter Jordan said he and his colleague waited in their vehicle a few yards away from the ferry for police to arrive. As they watched through the wing mirror the ferry started to move. He said: ‘We saw it drifting down the estuary.
‘I heard a female voice saying they were pirates and asking “what are we going to do now”.’ When police arrived, the medics said that Whelan and Locke were 200 yards away and heading towards dozens of other moored vessels. Whelan later told police she untied two or three of the ropes connecting the boat to the shore because she kept tripping over them. She said before she knew it she felt the boat moving and ‘noticed the hotels getting a long way away’.
Police joined lifeboat crew on the river trying to intercept the boat. The harbour master was also alerted but the suspects shouted abuse from the out-of-control boat and made jokes about being kidnapped, the court was told. The ferry bumped into a £70,000 fibreglass catamaran causing £300 of damage and another moored vessel. It finally came to rest in still water about a mile or so upstream from were it started. When arrested Whelan said they would have ended up in St Tropez if they had not been caught. Whelan admitted that she and Locke had been on a drinking spree around Torbay, Devon and that she had consumed poisonous nightshade, causing her to hallucinate.
The ferry’s owner Kenneth Lane said he had moored the boat securely with seven ropes an hour or so before it was taken. Ashley Lane, the ferry's operations manager, said the would-be sailors were both 'exceptionally lucky to be alive'. He said: 'If the tide had been going out instead of coming in, the boat could have been pulled onto rocks and the two of them could have been killed.' The ferry suffered £1,500 worth of damage. The boat is usually used for wildlife cruises in the Torbay area but had been hired for a different job and was moored in nearby Kingswear that night. Locke, of Crediton in Devon was fined £100 at a separate court case last year after admitting assaulting an ambulance technician by beating. Whelan was sentenced to 112 days after being found guilty of aggravated vehicle taking by magistrates at Torquay. She denied the charge but magistrates found her guilty and she was also in breach of a four-month suspended sentence.
This brand new Tristram 701 Offshore ‘Locke Nest’ powered by the new Yamaha 300hp V6 with joystick technology has been handed over today to first-time Tristram owners from the mighty Bay of Plenty.
Multiple ultra-premium features are on this package, including Balex Automatic Boat Loader system, moulded skippers pocket to house Yamaha’s digital binnacle control, electric drawer fridge, gas cooker and an enviable cockpit for serious blue water fishing.
Tristram / 701 Offshore
Engine / Yamaha 300hp V6 with Joystick Manoeuvrability
Trailer / Enduro Tandem Axle with Balex Automatic Boat Loader
Upholstery / Charcoal with White Piping
SeaDek / Mocha over Black
Destination / Tauranga NZ
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Cheese lover and connoisseur Kai Thomas.
John is awake! - John: Shut up and give me that motherf*cking camembert and brie, bi*ch, and some of that slutty Swiss cheese with holes.
Chicken gangs terrorise the small island of Jersey.
A mother has described how her teenage son woke from a coma addicted to cheese and compulsively swearing. Kai Thomas, 15, suffered a sudden, potentially life-threatening brain bleed in June last year. He had surgery to relieve pressure on his brain and doctors at Sheffield Children's Hospital put him in a coma for nine days so he could recover. When he woke up he was unable to move or speak, a result of the trauma his brain had endured. While he has since regained the ability to walk and talk again, Kai has been left with some unusual side-effects. He has become so addicted to cheese that he munches on several blocks of it a day - and even puts it on his cereal. And previously well-mannered, he now regularly swears, to his mother's horror.
His mother Tracey, of Chesterfield, said: 'He's addicted to cheese – and he can't stop swearing.' The 35-year-old explained that before falling ill, Kai was a good-natured, well-manned young man. 'He didn't swear and minded his manners,' she said. 'Then in June last year, he came home from school rubbing his head and saying it hurt. Then he suddenly collapsed.' Mrs Thomas called 999 and Kai was taken to Sheffield Children's Hospital. 'Doctors carried out scans and the results showed a bleed on the brain,' she said. 'They told me it could have just come out the blue or he could have knocked himself.' Kai spent six hours in theatre where surgeons battled to save his life.
Family: Kai and mum Tracey on a family day out ( Image: PA Real Life)
Upon going upstairs to see what was happening, she found Kai munching on an entire block of cheese. Then, over the next few weeks, she noticed all types of cheese going missing from the fridge. 'He had always like cheese but now he was obsessed with it - he even added it to his cereal,' said Mrs Thomas. 'We asked the doctor about it and apparently it's quite normal for people to develop inappropriate or aggressive behaviour after waking up from a coma. So while that explained the swearing, no one can explain the cheese. 'Kai's condition is gradually improving and he now undergoes home tutoring as well as attending mainstream school for an hour each day. A spokesman from Headway, the brain injury charity, said: 'There can be physical, cognitive, emotional and behavioural problems as a result of a head injury. No two cases are the same.'
A blind man was assaulted by Claus.
Natasha Claus
A woman has been jailed and banned from entering Woking after she punched a blind man and was caught in the middle of a sex act in the street. Natasha Claus, 36, was described as ‘a mess’ by a judge after she turned up to court four hours late to be handed a 13-month prison sentence. The judge revealed that she had also been caught riding through the Surrey town naked on a motorbike, but added that she was not being sentenced for that particular incident. She pleaded guilty outraging public decency after she was caught in the middle of a sex act that Judge Peter Ross said was ‘no doubt for money’. Prosecutor John Upton said she was spotted in Goldsworth Road, Woking, ‘being fingered by a man’ on July 2 this year (2017). A mother with her two children asked her to stop and Claus responded by threatening to punch her. When she was arrested at the scene, police said her jeans were pulled up, but her knickers were in her handbag.
Claus was jailed for three months for the assault on the blind man, and two months for each attack on the police officer, two months for being racist to one of the officers, one month for outraging public decency and another month for abusing the woman who asked her to stop the sex act.
She was also jailed for four months for breaching a suspended jail sentence.
Prosecutor Mr Upton told Guildford Crown Court that she was in the habit of befriending vulnerable men then taking advantage of them. Trouble flared when one of those men was threatened with being kicked out of his flat by the local council because of her anti-social behaviour. They argued and Claus attacked him. Because he was registered blind, he couldn’t tell if it was with her palm or fist. When being arrested for the attack, she assaulted two police officers calling one of them a ‘P**i c**t’. Defence barrister Timothy Leete said that she was addicted to inhaling butane gas, leading Judge Moss to tell her ‘your life is a mess.’ The judge added: ‘Any assault on a vulnerable person is very serious indeed, as is any attack on the police officers who we have a moral obligation to protect.’
Tory MP Eric Pickles
Eric Pickles, Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, has said he isn't 'playing a jammie dodger' over his department's biscuit budget
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A weekly newspaper earned a TV appearance last week after a government minister was forced to deny claims that his department spent £10,000 on biscuits. The Brentwood Weekly News featured comments by the town’s MP Eric Pickles under the headline: “I did not spend £10,000 on extra biscuits.” Mr Pickles, who is also communities and local government secretary, was later taunted over the front page on the TV news quiz show Have I Got News For You. And the splash was also re-tweeted more than 1,000 times after being picked up by comedienne Ellie Taylor, who went to school in the town.
Sir, your chins tell a different story.
Biscuits are a basic human right, he had every right to spend the money!
He's got more chins than a Hong Kong telephone book.
He didn't spend it on extra biscuits. Just the first round of them
Maybe he's telling the truth. Maybe he got the mashed potatoes instead.
Said Ellie: “Of all the great headlines I’ve seen in local newspapers, this one takes the biscuit! As soon as my sister sent me the picture I knew it was too good to keep to myself. “And it turns out the Twittersphere cannot get enough of sordid claims about Tories and afternoon snacks!” Later on Have I Got News For You, guest host Robert Lindsay asked panelists: “Has anyone seen the latest financial scandal brewing in Brentwood?” Mr Lindsay read out the headline as the weekly news front page was put up on the screen. Mr Pickles said the skewered figures resulted from an admin error. He said; “There is not a crumb of truth here. It was Labour who had their hand in taxpayers’ cookie jar to the tune of half a million pounds. We have put a stop to that and reduced spending on all refreshments to just a fraction of the cost.”
Tiny people, obviously.
Apparently, this person is not familiar with Lilliputians.
Farmville breaks the cyber/reality barrier.
The plight of the small farmer in America.
I would cherish it forever and make it some tiny farmers to grow some tiny tomatoes
Callum Meek admits dropping 15 pounds of KFC onto the pavement after a night out.
Bohemian Rhapsody - Mr.Chicken (cover)
The pesky rascal who dropped an entire KFC meal onto the pavement has been unearthed. Callum Meek has been uncovered as the guy responsible for the atrocity that plunged Britain into mourning has handed himself in. Callum Meek, a business student at the University of Gloucestershire, admits abandoning the hot food and said that he had left the chicken and chips alone on the street while he was out on a Wednesday night. Callum told Metro.co.uk: ‘Well, it was after a heavy night of drinking for a university social, so on the way home I decided to spend £15 on KFC just for myself. ‘I only managed to get through a couple bits of chicken before the bag broke and it ended up all across the floor. I attempted to recover the chicken, but in my drunken state gave up and made my way home.’
Bohemian Rhapsody - Mr.Chicken (cover)
The KFC was first spotted strewn across the pavement by the Gloucestershire Echo in Cheltenham at around 6am. But by 11am only the chips remained. After news of the dropped meal broke tributes, came pouring in across social media.
My thoughts are with the people of Cheltenham at this difficult time...
It is a trying time but the community is rallying around each other in support.
Firefighters were called out to a field in Boughton where a cow had a chair stuck on its head
Crews from The Mounts and Wellingborough attended the incident at 7.50am.
A tweet by Northants Fire & Rescue stated that the cow managed to “self-release” itself from the chair.
It was just after 7am in Aspelt when staff at the Animal Rescue Unit of the Bettembourg emergency centre were confronted with a bullock donning a green plastic chair around his neck.
Just how the cow managed to get its head through the back of the chair remains a mystery but the poor animal didn’t have to suffer long as firefighters quickly removed it.
With the panic over, all involved were able to relax and sit down, although probably not on the same chair.
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Little help please: Members of the public called for help after spotting a cow with her head stuck in a ladder. They guided the animal into a holding pen, where they were eventually able to gently remove the ladder which was wedged firmly on her neck.
A Raccoon with it's head stuck in a sewer cover was rescued by Harrison Twp. Fire Department..
Lt. Brian Lorkowski has worked at the Harrison Township Fire Department for about 20 years, but on Tuesday he faced something he has never seen before: a raccoon with its head stuck in a sewer cover. His department got the call from animal control and drove out to the scene on Clearview Drive and South River Road. First, they tried putting soap around the raccoon’s neck, but it failed to get itself loose. They were going to try to use brute force and saw the cover, but it’s made of cast iron so that would have put the raccoon at risk. “So we didn’t want to do that," said Lorkowski. "And you know, as you cut, the cast iron was getting hot, so we decided not to go that route, for the safety of the animal.”
Finally, after doing what anyone would do when faced with a new challenge, the Harrison Township Fire Department got creative and used the resources at their disposal. “We had the homeowner bring out cooking oil,” Lorkowski said. “And that was enough to free the animal. We had someone hold the head kind of and then someone was on the other side pulling the body. And it was able to free itself.”
The raccoon was unharmed.
The RSPCA has been called out to rescue a flustered fox - which had been "outfoxed" by a floorboard. Builders at the University of Hertfordshire spotted the trapped animal's head poking out of a hole in the floor while renovating an office. It is thought the fox was trying to wriggle through the section of flooring when it became stuck fast at the university's de Havilland campus in Hatfield. RSPCA animal welfare officer Kate Wright, who was tasked with freeing the fox, said: "I have to admit that when I arrived I was faced with a very odd sight. "Here was this fox's head poking out of a floor and he was so jammed he couldn't move, and I just had these big eyes staring at me. "I actually think he had quite an embarrassed expression on his face."
After builders used crowbars to pull up the flooring panel, the less-than-crafty animal was pulled free, transferred to a cage and released at a safe location nearby. "Eventually after a lot of pushing, I managed to pop one ear through and then finally the next and he was free. Ms Wright added: "I had to get to the scruff of his neck while trying to avoid wires. "He was a beautiful fox, and although his neck was slightly swollen from being stuck, I think it was his pride that was hurt more than anything as he had been outfoxed by a hole."
Please consider wild animals and don't fly tip your rubbish.
Firefighters rescued a Tottenham fox cub who had its head trapped in a wheel. The frightened creature was found not far from Tottenham Fire Station, near Bruce Grove Station, with firefighters being alerted to the incident by animal welfare charity RSPCA. Specialist cutting equipment was used to free the fox cub, who was fortunately uninjured. An RSPCA officer then took the animal back to where it had been found so it could try to find its fox family. A London Fire Brigade spokesperson said: “The cub had its head stuck in the middle of the tyre rim and was found not too far from Tottenham Fire Station by the RSPCA. “Firefighters protected the cub’s head and used specialist cutting equipment to safely free them from the wheel. “The fox was calm whilst crews worked to cut away at the wheel and thankfully, he was uninjured.” It is not unusual for firefighters to be called out to rescue an animal, although it is more often people’s pets that have found themselves in a spot of difficulty. While it is considered part of their job, London Fire Brigade recommends people call RSPCA in the first instance whenever they find a trapped animal. Firefighters are usually called whenever specialist equipment is needed.
Image Left - Could be here for a while: A dog learned why curiosity killed the cat when its head got stuck between the steel bars of a factory gate in China. The lucky dog has canine lives, it seems, surviving the ordeal when fireman staged a dramatic rescue..
Oasis frontman Noel Gallagher refutes swigging white lightening cider and licking windows, Not me mate..
Dog Won't Stop Licking Windows
Dog Won't Stop Licking Windows.
Noel Gallagher has told police he's not the man they're looking for after a lookalike was seen licking windows in a town centre. Police were called at 5.30pm on Sunday OCTOBER 22nd 2017 to reports that the star's doppelganger was licking windows and swigging from a bottle of cider in Swindon town centre. But the singer-songwriter, who wrote Oasis' 90s hits Wonderwall and Don't Look Back in Anger, is in the US and posted on Instagram: 'Nowt to do with me, mate. I'm still away on holiday.' Fans were left in hysterics after Swindon North Police wrote on Facebook: 'You know it's going to be one of those shifts when you get a report of 'A Noel Gallagher lookalike' swigging from a bottle of White Lightning and licking windows!' Commenting on the post, Sarah Corke said: 'Just another day in Swindon', followed by several laughing emojis. Paul Seaman wrote: 'But now his feeling supersonic and drinking gin and tonic,' while Diane Sturgess said: 'Don't lick back in anger!' Police confirmed the case had been closed as no offences were committed. A spokesman for Wiltshire Police said: 'We received reports of a man resembling Noel Gallagher in Swindon at around 5.30pm [on Sunday] who appeared to be under the influence of alcohol and was licking windows – not a Wonderwall and he may have been Half the World Away. 'It's believed he was with another person causing a general nuisance. The incident was nowhere near the Oasis, but in the town centre, near the Wyvern Theatre.'
Don't Lick Back in Anger.
Now dubbed “Bucket Heid” by his pals, a picture taken of him as firefighters cut him free went viral on Facebook and Twitter. But as he recovered yesterday 1st october 2012, the man himself was more concerned with ridding himself of the smell of the rubbish he breathed in during Sunday afternoon’s ordeal in the city’s Castlegate. Willie, 53, revealed he dropped his bunnet in the bin with some rubbish but got trapped when he stuck his head in to see where it was. He said: “I couldn’t get my head out. It was shocking. “I was looking for my hat. I was stuck for about 20 minutes. “It was stinking. I’m now known as Bucket Heid.”
Willie Middleton is being talked about around the globe after he got his head stuck in a bin in Aberdeen city centre while looking for his hat.
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“I hope the man is OK and has learned his lesson. But seriously, lighten up, people.”
A Scottish Ambulance Service spokesman said Willie was not injured but was taken to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary as a precaution. He said: “He was released but needed to be checked over.”
His pals, like the rest of the world yesterday, saw the funny side. One woman, who didn’t want to be named – said: “I walked around the corner and saw his walking stick on the ground and his bum sticking out and said, ‘That’s Willie’. “Me and my pals tried to pull him out but his ears were stuck. “He is a well-known public figure around here and now he’s even more famous.” As police and paramedics watched, firefighters took 15 minutes to cut Willie, who lives in Aberdeen, free with a high-powered saw. The photograph spread across Facebook and Twitter within minutes of the incident. One Facebook page with the snap on it was “liked” by almost 4000 people within a few hours. Some people sympathised with his predicament. One blogger wrote: “I think anyone who laughs at his situation should be ashamed of themselves.” But others saw the funny side and remarked on how bizarre it was to see a man with his head stuck in a bin. Another social networking site user said: “Yes, it was very unfortunate but I do not believe anyone who says they didn’t have a giggle when they first saw this photo.