Bizarre pothole protest with Barbie dolls

A man has decided to drown dolls in a protest against poor road maintenance. Neville Daytona bought the dolls from a charity shop so he could install them in particularly deep potholes. Their heads were above water, so technically they were just having a soak. The idea is that the suffering dolls were supposed to warn fellow motorcyclists, which parts of the road to avoid. And it actually worked, as Swindon Borough Council has now stepped in to fix the ‘underlying issue’.

Dad-of-three, Neville placed them on a route over the M4 in Swindon. “The roads are disgusting. Everyone’s moaning about it,” he said. “I ride a motorbike, cycle and drive. On a motorcycle or bicycle you have to swerve, all over the road to avoid the potholes — if you don’t you’re wincing. So I thought I’d do something amusing about it.”

A spokesman for Swindon Borough Council said: “Our action men and women have repaired the pothole several times but it keeps reappearing due to a problem with the motorway bridge. ‘Highways England have agreed to fix the underlying issue.”

Disney dream house for sale in Florida

A Florida home listed for sale online is going viral not for its unassuming exterior, but for the Disney wonderland contained inside.

The Windermere home, listed for sale on Zillow, features Disney décor in each room, including a Mickey Mouse-themed kitchen.

Neighbours said the Disney dream house became famous for its similarly themed holiday decorations.

“Every nook and cranny of that house and lawn was a solid figure of Disney (such as) Mickey Mouse (and) Donald Duck,” neighbour Sean Coamey told.

The home, listed for $888,000, has one other Disney-related perk: Nightly views of the Magic Kingdom’s fireworks at Walt Disney World, located only three miles from the seven-bedroom, six-bathroom house.

Here is world’s largest cinnamon roll

An Oregon bakery shattered a Guinness World Record by spending 11 hours cooking up a 1,149-pound cinnamon roll.

Wolferman’s Gourmet Baked Goods, owned by company Harry & David, said a team of 100 workers and volunteers spent 11 hours creating the cinnamon roll, which Guinness confirmed to be bigger than the 609-pound roll that previously held the record.

“A gentleman that runs our Wolferman’s division came up with this idea that today is cinnamon roll day and he wanted to break the record to have the largest cinnamon roll made,” Steve Lightman, president of Harry & David, told KEZI-TV.

Guinness Adjudicator Kaitlin Vesper confirmed the record and presented officials with a certificate.

“For all of our food-related attempts part of our requirements is that the food item in its entirety must be eaten so we must ensure that none of the food is wasted or thrown out,” she said.

Published in Dawn, Young World, May 19th, 2018