A teenager who had "mum" tattooed on her back in Chinese letters was horrified to find it really said: "Friend from hell."
The Daily Mirror reports that Charlene Williams, 19, only found out something was wrong when a passing Chinese woman shouted: "Evil, evil, very bad."
Charlene said: "I was shocked and angry. Dad joked it said chicken chow mein. It was worse than that."
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A man who has proudly showed off his tattoo for 26 years was baffled to realise it actually spelt Coca-Cola.
Vince Mattingley had his name tattooed on his chest in Chinese writing after asking staff at his favourite restaurant to write his name in Chinese symbols.
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Execution of Ill Ala. Inmate Blocked
Federal Appeals Court Blocks Ala. Lethal Injection of Terminally Ill Inmate
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In certain parts of India the problem has become such that the authorities have been forced to undertake special steps to confront what the local papers call "the Simian menace".
In Delhi, officials have even constructed a "monkey prison" in the south of the city where animals that are captured on the streets of the capital are put in cages and then delivered to the walled sanctuary and released.
Some local communities have got together and hired men with larger, more aggressive langur monkeys to scare away the rhesus monkeys. Several years ago the federal Government even put some of the langurs on its payroll, paying them around $19 a month in bananas to patrol the areas around some of the government departments. The authority that runs the city's recently opened subway also resorted to hiring langurs to clear away the smaller monkeys who were following commuters on to the trains.
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Kenyan officials are not sure how to handle a troop of rude monkeys that's been making lewd gestures at women, London's Daily Telegraph reports. "Can the [tourism] minister deploy game rangers ... to deal with the monkey menace?" pleaded local representative Paul Muite in Kenya's national parliament last month, to accompanying laughter. "These creatures have clearly shown that they have no respect for women."[Article.]
GAUHATI, India — Six Asiatic wild elephants were electrocuted as they went berserk after drinking rice beer in India's remote northeast, a wildlife official said Tuesday.
Nearly 40 elephants came to a village on Friday looking for food. Some found beer, which farmers ferment and keep in plastic and tin drums in their huts, said Sunil Kumar, a state wildlife official.
They got drunk, uprooted a utility pole carrying power lines and were electrocuted in Chandan Nukat, a village nearly 150 miles west of Shillong, the capital of Meghalaya state, Kumar said.
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An auctioneer has denied the sale of the Spitting Image mask of Princess Diana next month is in bad taste.
The puppet used in the long-running comedy series will go under the hammer in Shropshire on 1 November with a guide price of £5,000 to £10,000.
Auctioneer Mullock's denied the sale was poorly timed, despite it being held during the inquest into the deaths of Princess Diana and Dodi Al Fayed.
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An 82-year-old Argentine woman who attracted media attention last month when she married a 24-year-old man has died as a result of heart problems.
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The deputy mayor of the Indian capital Delhi has died a day after being attacked by a horde of wild monkeys.
SS Bajwa suffered serious head injuries when he fell from the first-floor terrace of his home on Saturday morning trying to fight off the monkeys.
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