A tall cow

‘Blosom’ the cow is a Guinness World Record breaker as she is too tall and luckily, her height has saved her from the slaughter house.

The Holstein Fresian cow is 6ft 4ins tall and is now being kept as a pet. She is the prize attraction at Patty Hanson’s farm in Orangeville, Illinois, where she is “the pride of the farm”.Blosom even has her own Facebook page, complete with seasonal photos and messages for her fans.

PILOTS on a passenger plane were left stunned when they saw a ‘flying man’ zoom past the side of a plane at 3,500ft above the Cheshire countryside.

While aviation experts admitted they were baffled by the sighting of the human ‘UFO’, who has been dubbed Superman of Macclesfield. This flying man appeared from nowhere as the plane passed the Cheshire town while it was coming in to land at Manchester Airport.

The pilot and first officer, who reported the sighting to air traffic control, thought the man was a paraglider but could not see a canopy. And the mystery deepened when there was no sign of him on radar. Further checks failed to find any paragliders, parachutists or ¬balloonists in the area at the time. The report said that at the time, the skies were clear and visibility was about six miles. In addition, experts from the British Hang Gliding and Paragliding Association said weather conditions at the time would have made it impossible for a lone flyer to be in the area.

According to aviation experts, it was unfortunate that there was really no information that could lead to identifying the unknown object. “This was frustrating to both the board and the pilots concerned, who had clearly seen something or someone, but there was no way of corroborating what they had reported,” experts said.

KAREN Holloway had to serve six hours behind bars as she failed to maintain her yard in accordance with the rules set by Lenoir City, Tennessee.

It was when officials in Lenoir City, Tennessee, visited her yard last summer and found it to be too untidy with overgrown grass and shrubbery. On investigation, it turned out that the Holloway family had been too occupied to attend to their lawn.

Understandably, Karen was not happy with the decision and said: “It’s not right, why would you put me in jail with people who have done real crimes because I haven’t maintained my yard up to the city’s standards?”

She argued her busy life had meant she was unable to keep up her duties and this shouldn’t have caused her to be treated like a criminal. Holloway was lucky to only receive six hours in jail as the judge had originally planned to keep her inside for five days before changing his mind.

CAN you believe your pet could actually raise the price of your home by one hundred thousand dollars? Yes, this is true. A cat in Australia is responsible for not only sealing the deal on the sale of her owners’ home, but upping the sale price too.

Tiffany the cat belonged to the Perceval family in Glen Iris, a suburb of Melbourne. Recently, when Fran and Michael Perceval were about to close the bid on almost US $1.8 million, the bidders made an unusual request. It was to raise their bid by US $100,000 making it US $1.9 million only if they could keep ‘Tiffany’.

It turns out that the buyers’ child had taken a liking to four-year-old Tiffany. Well, both Michael and Fran Perceval never expected to actually have a clause written into the contract that included the cat. This might be the first cat clause in real estate history.