I was privileged once again to find myself deputising for the wonderful MICHELLE WARD who has thoughtlessly gone on leave.
On today’s show we heard about the 8 year-old who’s birthday celebrations were disturbed when police raided the event.
Yes young Oliver Green was partying with 18 friends at his home in the quiet Norfolk village of Yaxham when police descended on the festivities after neighbours reported hearing machine gunfire and the sound of children screaming.
In fact the guns were NERF guns which fire foam darts, discs and foam balls.
Much to the kids delight the raiding party then joined in the birthday festivities for about 10 minutes.
That’ll be a party to remember then!
Then we had news of the pizza promotion in Russia that went wrong.
Dominos pizzas launched a promotion on 31st August announcing that fans of their pizzas who had tattoos of the company’s logo emblazoned in prominent places on their bodies could claim 100 free pizzas per year for 100 years, but after just 5 days into the promotion more than 300 tattooed people turned up demanding their free nosh.
As a result the promotion was hurriedly dropped.
The promotion was supposed to run from 31st August until 31st October but was hastily abandoned on 4th September.
Dominos then suggested that anyone who had not had their tattoos completed should consider cancelling their appointments and that anyone who had failed to receive their LIFETIME PIZZA CERTIFICATE would be restricted to a limit of no more than 100 free pizzas.
Keeping to the cooking theme, we reported on the sad tale of Mr Lim Ba, a 68-year old spiritual magician, known professionally as BLACK DOG who accidentally steamed himself to death at a temple in Kuala Sanglang, a small coastal village in Northern Malaysia.
Mr Lim placed himself in the lotus position, in a giant stainless steel wok, alongside rice, sweetcorn and vegetarian buns. He then clasped his hands in prayer as the lid was lowered over him and a fire was lit under the wok.
The steaming ritual is supposed to cleanse both body and soul but 30 minutes into the steamy scenario something went wrong.
Devotees heard frantic knocking from inside the steamer.
The lid was raised but Black Dog was found done to a turn with steam billowing round him.
Suffering from major second degree burns, he subsequently died of a heart attack.
Perhaps there was too much rice in the mixture!
See you again soon,
Scott
