A young girl in Michigan was mistakenly arrested and handcuffed in 2017 when she was just 11 years old. The officers who arrested her with guns drawn were reprimanded and police procedures were subsequently changed. The handcuffs were removed after a few minutes but the girl named Honestie Hodges asked whether it could ever have happened to a white child. Sadly Honestie contracted Covid-19 and was admitted to hospital and her condition worsened and she dies this week. aged just 14. What a sad and hard life for a child.
Here in the UK three Dorset towns have been named as the happiest places to live in Britain. The ‘Happy at Home’ survey was carried out by Rightmove and happiness factors included, friendliness, local services, sense of belonging and green spaces. The towns included in the winning list are Dorchester 8th, Weymouth 13th and Poole 17th. I’m afraid Bournemouth didn’t make the top twenty but then it all depends what you are looking for, doesn’t it?
Maybe this following item is why my happy home town didn’t make it into the above list. A man was arrested in Bournemouth for having a cannabis factory which from the photos looks as if it might have been in a loft. Nothing was mentioned about how it was discovered but the arrested man was from Portsmouth. This certainly would have made it onto someone’s happy list. And also in Bournemouth police have issued a photo of a man they want to speak to regarding the fraudulent use of a bus pass. It seems that the bus pass in question has been used at least 70 times since the man named on the pass died in 2009.
Just when you thought you’d heard it all something comes along that is so bizarre that you have to question whether the world has gone completely mad. A bodybuilder in Kazakhstan has married a sex doll in a traditional ceremony with a celebrant, guests and a first dance. But when I write doll I mean a life size doll. The groom said he was totally in love and that it takes more than words to have a conversation. It’s good news for all the other women in Kazakhstan who might have ended up with him.
A helicopter crew on a state wildlife mission were flying over the canyons and deserts of Utah when they suddenly spotted something unusual and landed nearby to investigate. It turned out to be a huge metal monolith about 12 feet tall that has been well embedded into the ground. Nobody knows who put it there or why but the theory is that it is a sculpture done by an artist and somehow transported into the canyon which is a very difficult terrain to travel into. It sounds to me like an American Banksy. Well done that man – or woman. Good night art lovers everywhere. 😴💤😴