Cakes really?

IS this a guitar? Look again! Well, believe it or not, this is a cake. Baker Debbie Goard has been making custom sculpted cakes since 2006. They are desserts that look nothing like a dessert.

For example, these are not wings. I repeat, not wings. This is a cake. The Oakland, Calif., native started her career in her bakery, which might explain the name of her current business, Debbie Does Cakes. And if you wish to buy them you have to be in the Oakland area because these cakes are too fragile to be shipped or carried to a long distance.

Making the sugary works of art is no piece of cake: Even the simplest ones can take eight hours, and the more involved desserts can take weeks! The only rule she tries to follow when making the cakes is to “always try to be better than last time.”

HAVE you seen the movie Snakes on plane? Well the news has nothing to do with snakes but actually crabs. Yes, it was quite weird when United Airlines flight from New York’s LaGuardia airport to Charlotte, North Carolina, was delayed after crabs escaped from their containers and ran riot in the cargo area.

The flight crew were finally able to round up the crustaceans, allowing the flight to leave hours after its original departure time.

This is not the first flight that has been troubled by animal disruptions — bees were let loose on a plane last year at Charlotte Douglas airport, delaying departure of the plane for hours.

CLOWNS make you laugh by their funny faces, but what if they try to chase you at night and become the most terrifying things on earth. Recently, some parts in California, US, has been gripped by a spate of clowns chasing people late at night, with police vowing to make arrests and declaring “we want this to stop.”

These clowns came into the spotlight when TV drama American Horror Story returned with a freak-show-themed season filled with nightmarish clowns.

Just then a clown in the city of Wasco began posting pictures of himself in public spaces late at night. While it was still harmless fun and the photos seemed to be part of a husband and wife art project — but the problem began when copycats popped up in nearby area, with city police reporting 16 sightings in a just a week with rumours that one of the clown was armed and chased some teens.

So far no-one has been harmed by any clowns but the terror lingers in the streets of rural California.

IMAGINE spending years teaching your parrot to speak your language and then he goes missing, only to return singing a totally new tune. Frustrating, isn’t it?

That’s what happened when a parrot with a “cultivated British accent” went missing and upon his return four years later, it spoke only Spanish and kept asking for “Larry”.

The parrot had disappeared from his Southern California home in 2010, and returned earlier this month. A veterinarian tried to trace the bird’s microchip, but found it was unregistered. Eventually they were able to identify the original owner, who happened to live nearby. But, much to the owner’s horror, the parrot didn’t fly into his arms and at one point literally bit the hand that fed him! The parrot has developed an attitude problem and refuses to speak English. The vet said that it was normal and the parrot will eventually start being politer in order to get food. And no one still knows who Larry is....