Giant whale shark transported on truck

A FISHING captain, Cai Chengzhu, tied a two-tonne whale shark with a sturdy rope on his truck and headed for market through Yangzhi county, Fujian province in China. The 4.5m giant whale’s tail was blocking his view of the road, and its head was hangs off the back

Cai and his colleagues had been hauling their net out of the water when they noticed a gaping hole in the side. It’s believed that the giant creature broke the net and got inside to eat the fish they caught! The captain said the whale shark had attempted to escape, but died soon afterwards, so the fishermen took it to shore with them.

It is believed that the fishermen had planned to sell the gigantic fish for between 10,000 and 20,000 yuan (£960-£1920) at the wholesale market in Xiangzhi, before officials from the Fujian fisheries department stepped in as it is illegal to either buy or sell whale sharks in China, where they are classed as protected.

Boy drains entire pond to find his phone

SOME people are just too attached to their cellphones, just like this German schoolboy who was on a fishing trip with friends and accidentally dropped his iPhone over the side of the boat.

When the angling club refused to let him use his diving suit to retrieve his smartphone, the 16-year-old then took matters into his own hands and sneaked back later that night armed with a powerful pump and two hoses.

“I knew the phone was probably dead but wanted to get the data card back with the numbers, pictures and videos of my friends,” he told his local paper in Cologne.

The boy thought if he directed the water into the angling club toilet he may get away with his plan — but he failed to notice that the toilet wasn’t attached to a sewage system. When the owner arrived to a flooded car park, he quickly found the cause and called police.

The boy was ordered to pay for the damage for the toilet, the clean-up operation and water to refill the pond.

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IF you have identical twins or triplets, how do you tell the difference between them? Well parents Karen and Ian Gilbert found a unique way to tell their triplet daughters apart.

These baby triplets are so identical that their parents can only tell them apart by colour coding their toenails. Karen and Ian Gilbert were overjoyed when they had their three little girls, but they soon had trouble telling which was which.

So they overcame the problem by painting each one-year-old’s toenails with a different bright-coloured varnish. Mrs Gilbert said, “Ffion has fuchsia polish on her toenails, Maddison has mint green and Paige wears purple.

“It makes life a lot easier when it comes to our daily routine of feeding, bathing and nappy changing. The colour coding helps us to know who has had what.”

The trio is also earning their keep with appearances on TV’s casualty and the family drama Stella.

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ADULTS normally have 32 teeth but a teenager in India has had 232 teeth removed from his mouth!

In a record-breaking operation, surgeons in Mumbai operated on Ashik Gavai after the 17-year-old sought help for a swelling on the right side of his lower jaw. The hospital found he was suffering from a condition known as complex odontoma.

The hospital’s head of dentistry, Dr Sunanda Dhivare-Palwankar, said, “We thought it may be a simple surgery but once we opened it there were multiple pearl-like teeth inside the jaw bone.”

After removing those, they then found a larger “marble-like” structure that was so hard to remove that the dentists eventually had to “chisel it out” and take it out in fragments.

Gavai’s jaw bone structure was fixed during the operation so that it was likely to heal without deformity, the surgeon added.