Man's $1 million rare coin collection flies out car window

A Florida man travelling to a coin show with his $1 million rare coin collection blew a tyre on his car, causing it to flip over as many as five times and send his precious change flying across the highway.

The unidentified man initially refused to leave the scene, despite injuries and a heart condition. "He was in pain, but he was more worried about the money," Highway Patrol Trooper Darryl Haywood Jr. said.



The man contacted a network of fellow collectors in the area to help recover the coins and about eight to nine turned out with metal detectors. Police helped as well and a tow truck driver found $46,000 in bills in the trees.

However, it was not immediately clear how much of the total was recovered. The man and his wife had been en route from their home in Boca Raton to a coin show in Jacksonville when the accident occurred on Thursday night on Interstate highway 95.

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Indian inventor develops clothes to heat or cool wearer

An Indian inventor is developing clothes which keep the wearer comfortable in extreme temperatures. Kranthi Kiran Vistakula started with a jacket and is now applying his idea to shoes, scarves and even dinner plates. The clothes use Peltier light-weight plastic plates with a thermo electric device.



The device is powered by rechargeable batteries which can be topped up by vehicles or even solar panels. They can last up to eight hours on one charge. A Peltier plate consists of a junction between two metals. When an electric current passes through the junction, metal on one side heats up and on the other side it cools down.

The climate-controlled jacket, which weighs a little more than 1kg, has been successfully tested by the Indian army in Siachen glacier where temperatures are as low as -40C in winter. Mr Vistakula's company, Dhama Innovations, is now developing a range of other products using the same technology.


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Mr Vistakula is now setting up a manufacturing facility near Hyderabad for the mass production of his products, which include jackets, shoes, scarves, gloves and ear muffs. He is even considering a special jacket for cows. "Basically when the cow is cooled, it gives more milk in summer," he explained. "So we're working on a jacket like that - a huge one."

Chef gets saucepan stuck on head during brawl in Chinese restaurant kitchen

A chef at a Chinese restaurant was left with a pan stuck on his head after a brawl broke out in the kitchen.

Shocked diners looked on as six furious kitchen workers attacked other with woks and saucepans. Manager Terence Pan tried to break them up but eventually had to call police.



Diner Clive Griggs, 41, said: “All of a sudden there was crashing and shouting. Six people burst out and started hitting each other with a variety of implements. The chef ended up with a saucepan stuck over his head and one of the guys was using a wok to defend himself.”

Three men aged between 30 and 50 were arrested at the Tai Tung ­restaurant in Croydon, South London, and bailed until next month. Two men were taken to hospital with head injuries.

Safari park visitors warned after meerkats develop fetish for human feet

Warning signs have been put up at a new attraction where meerkats mingle with visitors after the little creatures developed a fetish for human feet.



The small mammals have taken a liking to painted toenails and colourful sandals and jump all over them given the chance.


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Staff at the new Jungle Kingdom enclosure at Longleat Safari Park, Wiltshire, have had to put up signs to warn female guests.



The new enclosure is the first place in Britain where people can interact directly with meerkats.

Animal rescues cost UK fire services £3.5m in last three years

UK fire services spent at least £3.5m rescuing 17,000 animals in the last three years. Firefighters got a cow out of a tree, removed a snail from a wall and reunited a duckling with its mother.

Anton Phillips, animal rescue specialist at Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service, said: "If we don't rescue that animal somebody else will or will try to. I've seen people have their arms trapped in drains trying to rescue ducklings and we've actually had to dig the road up to get the person out." But others were more trivial, with ducklings rescued from a drain, a pigeon released from a tree and a squirrel up a lamppost.



The most common animals that were rescued were cats, dogs, birds and horses, but other animals involved included snakes, seals, bats, chinchillas, iguanas, a raccoon, badgers and a chameleon. Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service were called out to remove a snail stuck halfway up a wall after being contacted by a distressed elderly lady.

Jim Green, an animal rescue specialist said: "The cost attributed to sending a couple of blokes down the road to help the lady and to reassure her, that was merited, and the actual problem, the snail, might seem ridiculous but it was that lady that they were going to help."