Kids Love Hamster Racing in England

An adventure park for children has begun staging the unusual sport of hamster racing.

Adventure Valley in Brasside, near Durham, is home to 'drivers' Lewis Hammy, Michael Chewmacher, Rodent Barrichello and Jenson Button Nose.
The animals each have their own wheel, which slots into a racing car, and races along a five meter track.

Ready, steady go! Jenson Buttonnose, Rodent Barrichello and Lewis Hammy battle it out on the race track

The races, which feature live commentary, end when one car crosses the chequered line first.
Owner Marco Calzini said: 'Our hamsters love to race and have been doing practice circuits.
'Competition is fierce and the hamsters have been pulling out all the stops to ensure they win.
Fierce competition: Hamster races at Adventure Valley in Brasside, near Durham, feature live commentary

'Extremely funny and very entertaining, we know our visitors will love this as much as our hamsters do.'
Visitors are encouraged to take up a free bet on the pet-powered cars in a grand prix style event. Whoever guesses right gets a treat.
Mr Calzini said: 'We wanted to introduce something a bit different and something new and exciting. It is something I don't think most people will have seen before - it's pretty unusual.

'But it has gone really well and people seemed to have enjoyed it.'

Furry fun: Visitors are encouraged to take up a free bet on their furry friends. The hamster 'drivers' have to complete a grueling five metre course

Mr Calzini's six-year-old daughter, Alessia, who attends Saint Godric's Primary School, in Durham, got the first race underway.
She said: 'It is really good fun when the hamsters are racing each other. People are cheering the one whose name they have picked.

'Sometimes they go backwards and sometimes they go forwards - it's really funny.'

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An efficiency expert concluded his lecture with a note of caution."

"You don't want try these techniques at home,"he said.

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"I watched my wife's routine at breakfast for years",the expert explained.

"She made lots of trips between the refrigerator, oven, table and cabinets,often carrying a single item at a time. One day I told her, Petal why don't you try carrying several things at once."

"Did it save time?" a guy in the audience asked.

"Actually,yes" replied the expert.

"It used to take her 20 minutes to make breakfast.Now I do it in seven."

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Woman strips off outside busy Australian cafe in fight over man

Witnesses said the woman took off all her clothes after she and another woman had a full-on fist fight over a man yesterday.

"That was just a shocker," eyewitness Fernando Dentes, 34, said. "People were trying to eat."

Police said a 39-year-old woman had to be picked up from the median strip on Dick Ward Drive after she bared all in front of the Cool Spot Cafe in Fannie Bay.

The patrons were reportedly unimpressed. Children were rushed inside the venue and police were called to escort the naked woman away.

The woman was lying naked on the ground smoking a cigarette in full view of customers at the restaurant.

Three uniformed officers, in a paddy wagon and a sedan, arrived at the scene before giving the woman an on-the-spot fine and taking her to her home to Moulden, in Palmerston.

It is unclear whether she was drunk.

Mr Dentes, who was the shift manager at the restaurant at the time, said that staff had alerted police after customers complained about the striptease.

He said he saw two women arguing near the Cool Spot entrance before one of them was pushed to the ground.

"The two ladies were arguing about the fella they were there with," he said. "It was pretty verbal.

"One had the other on the ground," he said.

"She was pretty much just defending herself and then she was lifting up her shirt and showing her breasts.

"She took off her clothes and then she walked to the median strip lid a cigarette and laid down.

"The customers weren't terribly impressed. They were more concerned for the kids. They rushed them inside."

Mr Dentes said it was not the first time police were called to near the restaurant to resolve a disturbance.

"We do get incidents occasionally but not something like this," he said.

VIDEO: This 20-Year-Old Woman Drunkenly Rammed A Cop Car Head-On

Haylee Arnell of Riverton, Utah managed to break at least seven laws Wednesday night when she drunkenly plowed head-first into a cop car while driving the wrong way alone in an HOV lane. And it's all on video below.

Not much is known about how Arnell's night started, but some clue may be that her birthday is listed on Facebook as sometime in August. Or it's possible she just likes to drink on Wednesday nights. Either way she apparently was involved in an accident in Lehi, Utah before taking to Interstate 15. Eventually, she found herself driving slowly the wrong way in her Toyota Camry in the HOV(high occupancy vehicle)lane.

Numerous 911 calls led a Utah Highway Patrolman to track her down and cut across the freeway to block other cars from getting in her path and, hopefully, stop the woman. Unfortunately, the only way to stop a drunk Haylee Arnell is with the front-end of a police car.

The smack injured the troopers back and, as he points out numerous times in the video, it was "a brand new car." He was fine, as was Arnell, who can be seen trying to move out of the car a few times before giving up.

She was released on bond after seven counts, including DUI with injury, wrong way driving, unsafe lane travel, leaving the scene of an accident, and unlawful consumption due to her age.

Not much else is known about Haylee, who appears to have smartly deleted her Facebook page. A cached version of what's possibly her Facebook page shows she likes Family Guy and hated Farmville.

China examines milk powder 'premature puberty' reports

Beijing parent Wang Gang recently discovered his 13-month-old daughter had been diagnosed with premature breast growth

China's government is investigating reports that a brand of powdered milk caused infant girls to grow breasts.

It is being alleged that hormone-tainted milk from Synutra International caused several cases of premature puberty in Hubei province.

The Chinese firm, whose shares fell by up to 35% on the news, strongly denies its products were tainted.

Two years ago, the chemical compound melamine was found in milk products made by 22 Chinese firms. Hundreds of thousands of children were poisoned and six died.

Powder samples

A panel of nine experts on endocrine, paediatric and food safety issues had been assembled to investigate the tainted milk allegations, the health ministry announced on Thursday.

The ministry was "directly investigating the claimed premature puberty cases at the request of Hubei province" and would publish its conclusions "soon", it said.

Samples taken from the market where the milk powder was purchased, as well as from the homes of the infant girls, were already being tested, it added.

China Daily, the country's leading state-owned English-language newspaper, reported the cases in Hubei this week, quoting from a report by the Beijing-based Health Times newspaper.

At least three infants in Hubei were found to have abnormal levels of the hormones estradiol and prolactin, which stimulates the production of breast milk, Health Times reported.

The infants' parents feared that their conditions were linked to their milk powder, produced by Synutra, and a leading children's doctor in the region was quoted by Health Times as calling for the powder to be analysed.

On Tuesday, the father of a 13-month-old girl in Beijing told China Daily his daughter had been diagnosed with symptoms of premature puberty.

Wang Gang was quoted by the paper as saying he was "furious at Synutra".

'Unwavering product quality'

The chairman of Synutra, Liang Zhang, has said that there is "no scientific evidence" to support the allegation that Synutra products were responsible for the cases.

"While we offer our sympathy to any families experiencing health challenges, we firmly believe that our products are not involved in the claims recently made, and we feel this media event will pass," he said in a statement.

"We firmly believe they will illustrate our unwavering product quality and commitment to consumer safety."

A food safety expert for the World Health Organization, Dr Peter Ben Embarek, said China's test results were expected within days and that the agency would then examine them.

"At first look, it looks very surprising," he told the Associated Press, adding that this was the first time he had ever heard of such a case.