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Terrified Brit finds deadly SCORPION running along her skirting boards at home – and has NO idea how it got there
A WOMAN was terrified to discover South America’s deadliest scorpion running along her skirting boards at home.
Payge Aitchison spotted the Brazilian yellow scorpion in her hallway in Wokingham, Berkshire, but has no idea how it got there.
In their native country the species kill more humans than all other venomous animals, including snakes and spiders, combined.
Payge first thought it was a spider but when she took a closer look she spotted its venomous stinger.
Payge used a Tupperware box to collect the scorpion – sealing the box and leaving it on her table while she figured out her next steps.
“I came home from the gym on Tuesday evening, and something caught my eye on the skirting board as I opened the door,” she said.
“Our front porch light doesn’t work, but there was a streetlight behind me, so everything was dark with a little bit of light cast on it.
“My first thought was that it was a spider, because that’s the kind of thing you’d expect to find in your house.
“I FaceTimed my friend and asked what she thought it was and she said she thought it was a scorpion – that pretty much confirmed what I’d thought at that point.
“I hadn’t shut the door by this point, because I wasn’t sure if it was going to leave or if I was.
“It had started walking back into the house, so I got a Tupperware box and shoved it over it.
“I got a bit of card, put it underneath, and flipped it upside down.
“I put the scorpion on the dining table, and just looked at it in the box for a while.
“I was thinking ‘what am I going to do with this?’
“I can’t keep it in a box forever, and I’m not going to kill it, because it’s not its fault it’s in my house.”
After making a post on her local Facebook page, and a helpful neighbour offering up a link to the National Centre for Reptile Welfare, Payge phoned for help.
Payge says the centre answered “immediately,” and began requesting photos and answering questions to identify the scorpion’s species – and quickly determined that it was highly dangerous.
The centre dispatched a volunteer located in Berkshire, who was able to reach Payge in around 90 minutes to retrieve the creature.
“I gave them a call and they answered almost immediately,” she said.
“I had been speaking to a lady originally, and then Chris, one of the owners came on the line.
“He asked if it was in a sealed box, and I said yes.
“He said that was good – he told me not to go near the box, not to touch the box, and not to open the box.
‘EXTREMELY VENOMOUS’
“He said that if he’s right about the species, they’re extremely venomous, and if it stings me, I’d die.
“They sent out a guy called Graham from the Berkshire Reptile Centre.
“It was probably an hour or so between me ringing them, and the collection – it was extremely efficient.
“It was really nerve-wracking having something like that on my table for that hour.
“Even though I knew it was in a sealed box and it couldn’t get out, there was still something on the table that could have killed me.
“What could have happened? All that started to sink in.
“As much as Graham thinks he rescued the scorpion, I think he rescued me!”
The scorpion stayed with volunteer Graham for several days, before being moved to the sanctuary at the National Centre for Reptile Welfare, where it will live out its days.
Payge says the team believe the scorpion may have hitched a ride on a parcel sent to her – but says they have no way of knowing for sure.
“One of the questions that Chris asked was if I’d had any parcels delivered recently,” she said.
“I said nothing that day, but I’d had a couple a few days beforehand.
“Their theory is that a lot of them come over in parcels from Shein and Temu, but this scorpion he thinks is of Brazilian origin, so we’re not sure how this one specifically has come over.
“Most ones are found inside parcels, but this was slightly different, because it was found in my hallway itself.
“People should be careful when opening up parcels and look before they open them – if these creatures are coming over in parcels, you might be putting yourself in harms’ way.”
Conor McGregor loses $1m in bets in just a week after Max Holloway wager that would have landed him $17m gets ruined
CONOR McGREGOR lost $1million in bets in just a week – after missing out on a huge $17MILLION wager.
Only one week before UFC 308, McGregor placed $500,000 (£385,000) on Renan Ferreira to beat Francis Ngannou.
Ngannou won in round one.
Then a week later, McGregor put $500,000 on Robert Whittaker to knock out Khamzat Chimaev and Max Holloway to KO Ilia Topuria.
Chimaev submitted Whittaker in a round and Topuria KOd Holloway in the third.
It meant McGregor’s losses sunk to $1m (£770,000) while his sensational $17m (£13.1m) bet went down the drain.
Topuria, 27, became the first to KO Holloway, 32, and was called out by McGregor online in the aftermath.
He said in a series of separate posts: “Call me.
“Cave his head in handy.
“Good little fighter, too small for anything substantial IMO. He was getting chewed up there.”
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Hitting back, Topuria told ESPN: “I dunno what to say, f*** him. I’m telling you, f*** him.
“He fakes the comeback everytime, he insults everyone in the UFC, he’s like, ‘I don’t care about anyone, I don’t respect anyone.’
“Bro, you’re f***ing sick. You have some problems to fix in your f***ing mind.
“You need to take some classes in respect because you’re going to end up really, really bad.
“When you follow these kind of values in your life, you’re going to end up really bad.
“Ask to God, don’t cross paths with me, never, ever, because I’m going to f*** you up.”
Who was Billie-Jo Jenkins and what happened to her? Murder on the Patio story explained
BILLIE-JO Jenkins brutal murder on the patio of her seaside home in 1997 remains one of Britain’s most infamous unsolved cases.
Here we look at who she was and what happened to her.
Who was Billie-Jo Jenkins?
Billie-Jo Margaret Jenkins was a schoolgirl who was beaten to death at her home in Hastings, East Sussex, in February 1997.
She was born on March 29, 1983, in East London.
When she was nine years old, her biological father was imprisoned, and she was placed in foster care.
Foster family
Billie-Jo moved in with Siôn and Lois Jenkins — who coincidentally had the same last name.
Siôn and Lois had four daughters of their own.
Billie-Jo spent five years with the family in their home in Hastings, on the East Sussex coast, and was described as “fun-loving”, with dreams of becoming an actor.
On February 15, 1997, 13-year-old Billie-Jo was found in the back garden of the family home, bludgeoned to death with an iron tent peg.
Fateful afternoon
On that fateful afternoon on February 15, 1997, 13-year-old foster child Billie-Jo was painting the patio doors at the back of the house when she was struck at least five times on the head in a shocking attack.
She was reportedly alone at the time, with the rest of her family out of the property.
When foster dad Siôn returned to the house following a trip to a DIY store with his two oldest daughters, he found Billie-Jo dying, in a pool of blood.
Prime suspect
Police initially asked Siôn to make a public appeal for any information, but shortly after he became the prime suspect.
He was arrested nine days later on suspicion of murder, and was charged with murder on March 14, 1997.
Siôn — father to Annie, 12 at the time of the murder, Lottie, 10, Esther, nine, and Maya, seven — has always maintained his innocence and claims a prowler could have been responsible for the murder.
Blood spatter
During the investigation, police discovered 148 tiny spots of Billie-Jo’s blood on Siôn’s trousers and fleece jacket.
The prosecution argued that their size and distribution were consistent with “impact spatter”, sprayed during the frenzied attack on Billie-Jo.
But the defence argued that a fine spray of blood was breathed out by Billie-Jo on her foster dad when he went to her aid as she lay dying.
Siôn spent six years in jail following his sentence.
Acquittal
In the two retrials following, the jury was unable to reach a verdict.
Siôn was formally acquitted in 2006.
Sussex Police have since maintained that there are no plans to reopen the murder investigation.
Murder on the Patio: Who Killed Billie-Jo?
A documentary examining the unsolved case called Murder on the Patio: Who Killed Billie-Jo? will be broadcast on Channel 5.
It airs at 10pm on Tuesday, October 29, 2024, and will be repeated an hour later on Channel 5+1.
It delves into how and why Billie-Jo’s foster father Siôn was initially convicted of the murder, only to be acquitted following a high-profile appeal and two retrials at the Old Bailey.
New ‘disco fridge’ comes with Bluetooth speaker & ice ball maker – but nifty trick makes your food last longer
FROM the icebox of the 1900s, and the 4-door of the 2010s, comes a new ‘disco’ era for the beloved refrigerator.
Kitted out with a Bluetooth speaker and an ice machine that makes perfect spheres, LG Electronics has unveiled a new four-door party fridge.
The stylish home appliance, according to LG, can even make your food last longer with one nifty smart glass trick.
InstaView, as the feature is known, lets users check the contents of their fridge with a simple double knock on the glass to turn the opaque panel transparent.
While LG reckons this can help keep food fresher for longer, it can also hide the contents of your fridge when you have guests over for parties.
Party time
The ‘disco fridge’, called the MoodUp Multi-Door, boasts 19,000 colour combinations, which are not as energy intensive as you might think.
Three of the doors on the colour-changing fridge have LED panels behind them – which use as much energy as one LED ceiling light, according to LG.
LED bulbs typically use up to 90 per cent less energy than traditional bulbs.
Without a specified colour, the fridge has a natural shade of beige on the door panel and black at the top.
But with LG’s ThinQ app, users can change the fridge’s LED panels to any colour they want from their iPhone or Android.
They can use it to match the interior design of their kitchen, the time of day – or the type of occasion, like Christmas.
But when the party is over, or it’s just another Tuesday night in, the fridge will automatically dim its brightness in the evening by a third.
And for those moments when the midnight snack monster strikes, the fridge will glow with a warm welcome light automatically when you approach within 60cm.
‘Healing mode’
It’s not all about party mayhem.
The four-door also has a so-called ‘healing mode’ for a flowing colour display accompanied by calming music.
The Bluetooth speaker means you can beam music or podcasts from your phone to your fridge.
Or, you can use LG’s pre-selected music collection inside the ThinQ app.
As well as colours, and tunes, the fridge can display some graphics, like the time, internal temp, and calendar updates.
Longer lasting ice
The new four-door fridge, which went on sale in Europe earlier this week, has a snazzy ice machine that can spit out frozen spherical ice balls.
These ice spheres actually melt slower than cubed or crushed ice – which the fridge can also make.
This is because it has a smaller surface area.
The larger the surface area of an ice cube the more heat it absorbs.
And, of course, the more heat it absorbs the faster it melts.
Smart fridge
The smart fridge is connected to LG’s ThinQ app, which is used to ‘talk’ with a variety of the company’s home appliances, from washing machines to light switches.
Users, wherever they are, can be alerted if the fridge door is open, if the internal temperature has dropped suddenly, or spiked.
They can even, through the app, tell the fridge to clean its own ice nozzle.
LG appears to be on a mission to reduce the number of chores a homeowner has to undertake, by ‘smartifying‘ the gadgets you would never have thought would get so clever just a decade ago.
But this 6″1 hunk of smart stuff comes at a cost: £3,699.00, which is around the top-end of what your average four-door fridge would cost.
Of course, this is not your average four-door fridge. This is a ‘disco fridge’.
Whether you need that in your life, or a more traditional one-colour, non-music-playing fridge, depends on how dusty your dancing shoes are.