An 11-year-old Vietnamese girl in HCM City can radiate and burn things that surround her, confirmed his father on May 13.
Mr T. in Ward 2, Tan Binh district, said that her daughter automatically burnt nearly everything in the third storey of their house on May 12, perhaps with the super-energy radiated from her body. The girl was not exposed to fire inducing objects.
Fire fighters were called to distinguish the fire.
Mr T.’s family discovered his daughter’s unique ability about one month ago and has recently allowed the media to meet her in the hope that both domestic and foreign scientists can step in and help treat her bizarre ‘disease’.
Mr T. said his family has been worried, tired and tense following several recent incidents.
At first, his family’s electricity network underwent repetitive short circuiting. Many electrical sockets in the house also burnt when the girl approached them.
Taking the girl to other homes causes the same phenomenon. She also burnt the hotel room where her family stayed during their holiday on Vung Tau beach.
Recently, the girl burnt a corner of the toilet seat . Sometimes, her clothes suddenly burst into flames.
Her family now guards her around the clock to prevent any possible incident. When she goes to sleep, water buckets and a wet towel will be placed next to her bed to put out the fire in case of emergency.
The T. family took the girl to a scientist, named Du Quang Chau, at Hong Bang International University for treatment.
After several tests, the scientist said he noticed variations from the norm in her cerebral hemisphere. Further research into her strange case is needed, according to Chau.
The girl was medically examined at Cho Ray Hospital and the Children No 2 Hospital but doctors found nothing abnormal about her body.
The girl once had a serious accident at the age of 3.
During the summer of 2010, Mallory Kievman had a severe case of hiccups.
She tried swallowing saltwater, making herself gag, eating a spoonful of sugar, sipping pickle juice and drinking a glass of water upside-down.
After two years and about 100 folk remedies, the 13-year-old came up with the idea of a lollipop which contained some of the remedies.
She is now preparing to lead a team of M.B.A. students from the University of Connecticut in building a company that can bring her invention Hiccupops, or hiccup-stopping lollipops to market for this summer.
“It’s very rare, when you’re evaluating businesses, that you can envision a company or product being around 100 years from now,” said Danny Briere, a serial entrepreneur and the founder of Startup Connecticut, which nurtures new companies, including Hiccupops, and is a regional affiliate of the Startup America Partnership.
“Hiccupops is one of those things. It solves a very simple, basic need.”
She developed the product in her family’s Manchester, Conn., kitchen, merging her three favorite cures — lollipops, apple cider vinegar and sugar into a single confection.
“It triggers a set of nerves in your throat and mouth that are responsible for the hiccup reflex arc,” said Mallory with a matter-of-fact tone.
“It basically over-stimulates those nerves and cancels out the message to hiccup.”
The judges didn’t think she was crazy. Instead, they awarded Hiccupops prizes for innovation and patentability. As part of her winnings, intellectual property lawyers filed for a patent, now pending, on Mallory’s behalf.
Soon, she will even have her own team of consultants. The University of Connecticut’s Innovation Accelerator plans to dispatch a group of graduate business students this summer to help push Hiccupops out into the world.
Incredible CCTV footage from China shows the moment an unsuspecting girl was swallowed up by a pavement as she walked down a street talking on her mobile phone.
The sidewalk, in the north of China, caved in under the teenager’s weight as she stepped onto a slab, plunging her six meters down into a murky underground weather-worn cavern.
The video shows passing taxi driver Wang Wei pulling up his cab and diving into the pit to help her.
On Tuesday, Jonaya Peterson was almost run over by a suspected drunken driver inside a Connecticut convenience store.
The Waterbury woman shared her frightening ordeal.
“I just heard a loud boom and it just happened so fast, I had no time to react to that,” she said.
She was standing at the counter inside the 7-Eleven on Cooke Street on Monday night when a black Ford Explorer slammed into the store, and almost ran her over. There was no way to prepare for what happened.
“Very shocking. I didn’t know what to do. I was just standing there. It was so unreal,” Peterson said.
Surveillance cameras inside the store captured the scare. Peterson didn’t know how close of a call it actually was until she saw the dramatic images.
“Oh my gosh!” she exclaimed. Peterson said she actually planned to check out at the register, where the car eventually crashed, and changed her mind at the last second.
“I think I’m very lucky. My angels were looking over me because, after seeing that video – it’s hard to watch,” she said.
Peterson was buying a lottery ticket when Kennedy Dowdell ploughed through the glass and struck Peterson in the back, police said.
“I just know I felt that sharp pain, and I got pushed against the register,” she said.
Then she noticed the threat wasn’t over, so she jumped on the counter to get out of harm’s way.
Dowdell put the car in reverse, backed out of the store and fled, according to police.
“I’m pretty mad because, never in a million years would I imagine that would happen to me,” Peterson said.
Waterbury Police tracked down Dowdell a short time later on Hill Street after a store clerk recognized him.
When police asked Dowdell to take a sobriety test he said, “I ain’t taking no test. I’m drunk and I know I will fail the test,” according to court documents.
Dowdell faced a judge in Waterbury on Tuesday about the charges of third-degree assault, operating under the influence and other charges.
“Within the last year, he (Dowdell) just got back from serving two tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. What you’re going to see here is young men make mistakes,” his attorney, Donald Papcsy, said.
15-year-old British girl Venus Palermo has an usual obsession with dressing up like a doll.
Powder, light pink eyeshadow, mascara, lip liner and gloss are just some of the things she uses in her efforts to maintain her appearance as a ‘living doll’, she even uses special contact lenses that make her eyes appear larger than normal.
Venus cites Japanese anime as the inspiration for her look and maintains a Youtube channel providing make-up tutorials for other girls.
Her mother Margaret doesn’t seem to mind her unusual hobby. “I am absolutely fine with that, her face is already doll-like and if she likes the style I am fine with it, I would be more worried if she came home drunk or smoked,” she said.
Venus said:’I was always like this, i liked to dress in frilly dresses and tie my hair in pigtails, then I discovered how and what I really want to be as a teenager.
‘A lot of people like the look and I want to help them achieve it.’
Venus, who dresses as a doll every day, explained she takes only 15 minutes to achieve the look.
Experts however have expressed their concern the trend could encourage the sexualisation of children.
Dr Gray, clinical director at The British CBT & Counselling Service warned that too much emphasis on physical appearance from an early age could have ‘disastrous consequences’, encouraging anxiety, depression and eating disorders later in life.
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A Delaware school that barred a sixth grader after she dyed her hair pink with her parents’ blessing to celebrate her good grades has lifted its ban on Tuesday due to an outcry from civil rights advocates.
After missing three days of classes, pink-haired Brianna Moore headed back to Shue-Medill Middle School in Newark, Delaware, on Tuesday after administrators reversed their decision after a call from the Delaware branch of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
“We’re on our way right now,” said Kevin Moore as he drove his 12-year-old daughter to school.
At his daughter’s request last week, he helped dye her hair a shade called crimson storm, which has a pink hue, as a reward for improving her grades.
But when she showed up for school the next day, she was sent home and told not to return until her hair met school policy mandating a “natural color, brown, blond, black, natural red/auburn.”
The ACLU soon got in touch with attorneys for the school district and asked, “Don’t you think this is unconstitutional?” said Kathleen MacRae, ACLU executive director in Delaware.
Moore was invited back to school with assurances she would not be punished, said Wendy Lapham, school district spokeswoman.
“The hair is not going to be an issue,” Lapham said.
