Dog wears a set of false teeth

Ben Campbell from Michigan bought comically large teeth to cheer himself up and perhaps hoped a few funny selfies could lift the spirits of others too, in the lockdown days.

But his pup, Thomas the Yorkshire terrier, had other plans — and the impromptu purchase has now brought a smile to hundreds of thousands of people instead.

When Ben left the teeth unattended on the table, Thomas made his move. The pup grabbed the teeth and simply decided to take them round the house in his mouth — however, he picked them up in exactly the right way the teeth should fit in the mouth.

Thomas was left with an oversized, beaming smile with teeth as white and straight as he could ever possibly dreamed of. Ben decided to film his attempts at retrieving the teeth, which only made Thomas more determined to keep them — and he looks absolutely delighted with his charming yet hilarious appearance.

A collection of 2,000 board games

David Przybyla, from Utah, started collecting board games in 2008, after a co-worker introduced him to a tile building game called Carcassonne. Przybyla said his collection now includes about 2,000 games, but he has only actually played about two per cent of his collection.

“So very little have actually been played,” he said. “A lot of them are unopened. A lot of them are just — I really want to play them someday, but I also have that kind of FOMO, I guess, that if I don’t buy it now, I’ll never be able to find it again because that’s happened.”

Przybyla said he is looking into getting a Guinness World Record for his collection. Przybyla said he owns about 2,000 games, but some are doubles of games he already had, so the number of unique games in his collection is probably closer to 1,500.

Car shaped like the coronavirus unveiled

An Indian car museum unveiled the ‘Corona Car,’ a coronavirus-shaped vehicle with six wheels that can reach a top speed of 25 mph.

Kanyaboyina Sudhakar, of the Sudha Cars Museum in Bahadurpura, said he designed the vehicle, which is shaped like the coronavirus when viewed under a microscope, to raise awareness of measures to slow the spread of Covid-19 during the global pandemic.

“The spread of Covid-19 has to be contained. I have designed the car in the shape of the virus so that awareness can be spread on social distancing by the public,” Sudhakar told.

Sudhakar said the single-seat vehicle took him about 10 days to build and he would be willing to make the vehicle available to police or other government agencies for awareness campaigns.

Lions take over road amid tourist ban

A pride of lions in a South African national park took advantage of the peace and quiet of the COVID-19 lockdown by lounging in the middle of the road.

Kruger National Park posted photos to Twitter showing the lions lying in the middle of a road that officials said they would normally avoid due to the presence of tourists.

“This lion pride is usually resident on Kempiana Contractual Park, an area Kruger tourists do not see,” the tweet said. “This afternoon they were lying on the tar road just outside of Orpen Rest Camp.”

Park spokesman said the photos illustrate how life has changed inside the park amid the coronavirus pandemic, which led to tourists being barred from entering.

“They just occupy places that they would normally shun when there are tourists,” he said. “In the absence of humans, wildlife is more active,” Phaahla told.

Published in Dawn, Young World, May 2nd, 2020