Driver’s license bears photo of empty chair!

Jade Dodd of Hickman County, Tennessee, US, renewed her license online, but when it arrived in the mail, she quickly noticed it bore a photo of an empty chair where her face should be.

Dodd then visited a Department of Motor Vehicles office to get the error corrected.

“When the customer recently renewed her driver license online, she received an image of a chair because that was the last picture taken on file,” the department spokesperson said. “When the Department was made aware of her situation, we immediately provided her with a license with her actual photo.”

Dodd said she finds the situation funny, and a much-needed bit of levity amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Caretaker needed for a tropical island

Conservation officials in Queensland, Australia’s Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority announced they are seeking someone to take a full-time job living on an “isolated tropical island” surrounded by the Great Barrier Reef.

The Low Isles is about nine miles off the coast of Port Douglas, Queensland.

The position requires the winning candidate to live full-time on the island and complete duties including “maintaining buildings and infrastructure including the solar power system and sewerage treatment system, liaising with tourist operators, cleaning toilets, managing weeds, grounds works and counting bird populations.”

Doctors pull 4ft snake from woman’s throat

This was not only a shocking moment to the woman herself but for the doctors who were treating her, when a 4ft long snake was removed from her mouth. The creature had reportedly slithered into her throat as she slept in her garden in Levashi, a village in Dagestan, southern Russia.

Feeling unwell, the young woman was rushed to hospital where she was put to sleep. It’s unclear if the snake was alive or dead, or how long it was trapped inside the woman.

The woman patient was not identified, nor was the type of snake.

Flying car takes successful test flight

A Japanese company, SkyDrive Inc. announced the successful test flight of its SD-03 flying car model at the Toyota Test Field in Toyota, Japan.

The single-seat flying car, billed as the world’s smallest electric vertical take-off and landing model, took flight for about four minutes.

The vehicle resembles a motorcycle with four attached propellers giving it the power of flight. The SD-03 is currently capable of maintaining flight for about 10 minutes, and the company is now aiming to expand that time to 30 minutes.

SkyDrive said it is aiming to have a commercially available version of the car completed by 2023.

Published in Dawn, Young World, September 19th, 2020