It wasn’t all bad news last week. In case you missed them, Coach and The Week have teamed up to celebrate the men who’ve recently done something inspiring, noteworthy, daring, unbelievable, heroic or just straight-up cool...
The Lost Australian Who Survived for Six Days by Eating Ants
A 62-year-old Australian man who was lost in the desert for six days without any food or water survived his ordeal by eating ants.
Reg Foggerdy went missing last week while chasing a wild camel in a remote part of Western Australia. He was found by police who praised his “fantastic” ingenuity after the retired miner lay down in the shade of a tree and ate black ants to survive.
Pic: Western Australia Police
The British Man Who Turned 25p into £13.2m
British man Jon Heywood has parlayed a 25p bet into £13.2m, playing online slot machines.
At current exchange rates, the win has been declared a world-record jackpot. Heywood, a soldier who served in Afghanistan, has told reporters that he plans to spend the winnings on a heart and lung transplant for his father, as well as a Bentley Continental GT.
The Rabbi Who Became the Pope’s Comedy Advisor
Rabbi Bob Alper of Vermont won the Vatican’s “Joke With The Pope” contest, which drew thousands of participants, including some of the world’s best-known comedians such as Bill Murray and Conan O’Brien.
The rabbi, who moonlights as a stand-up comic, won with this joke: “My wife and I have been married for over 46 years, and our lives are totally in synch. For example, at the same time I got a hearing aid, she stopped mumbling.”
The F1 Driver Who Sprayed Putin with Champagne
An ebullient Lewis Hamilton sprayed Russian president Vladimir Putin with champagne after winning the Russian Grand Prix on Sunday.
The driver merely caught the back of the president’s jacket with fizz, but that didn’t stop Twitter from weighing in with some comments for the 30-year-old formula one champion.
“Living dangerously,” wrote Twitter user @Wayward_Gamer.
Header pic: PA
The Jamaican Who Won One of Literature’s Greatest Prizes
Jamaican author Marlon James, 44, won the 2015 Man Booker Prize with his novel A Brief History Of Seven Killings, about the attempted assassination of reggae legend Bob Marley.
According to the prize committee, James’s novel “retells this near-mythic assassination attempt through myriad voices – from witnesses and FBI and CIA agents to killers, ghosts, beauty queens and Keith Richards’s drug dealer – to create a rich, polyphonic study of violence, politics and the musical legacy of Kingston”.
Pic: Janie Airey/PA
No comments:
Post a Comment