Friday, 9 May 2014

Oscar Pistorius watches in despair as ballistics expert acts out Reeva's last moments in courtroom reconstruction - behind the very door he shot her through

Former police officer Wollie Wolmarans played the part of the 29-year-old model behind the very toilet door the Paralympian shot her through on Valentine's Day last year.
The Paralympian held his head in the dock (top right) as Wollie Wolmarans (left) testified that the pattern of wood splinter marks around a gunshot wound on Steenkamp's right arm indicated that the arm was between six and 20 centimeters from the door. His testimony differed with a police ballistics expert, who said earlier at the murder trial that the wound was inflicted on Miss Steenkamp (inset) further away as she fell back in the toilet cubicle and protectively covered her head with her arms. His opinion was being used by the defense to show that Steenkamp may have been reaching out with her arm to open the cubicle door when she was hit. Prosecutor Gerrie Nel (bottom right) himself acted out a possible scenario about how Pistorius might have fired at Miss Steenkamp.

Chelsea star Eden Hazard wants to end season on a high before jetting off to Brazil

CHELSEA star Eden Hazard is desperate to end the season on a high at Cardiff on Sunday before turning his attentions to this summer's World Cup.
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Hazard has recently come under-fire from Blues boss Jose Mourinho following his costly error in the 3-1 Champions League defeat to Atletico Madrid and was dropped for last weekend's goalless draw with Norwich City.

Thursday, 8 May 2014

The toughest beef in the world! Astonished safari tourists watch as buffalo manages to fight off an entire pride of lions

Gathering: More cars start to approach the fight as it moves onto the dirt road. Another lion tries to grab the buffalo's hind legs
Photographer Scott MacLeod captured the moment 11 lions and 12 safari vehicles filled with tourists surrounded the buffalo in Tanzania. The predators were using the vehicles as shade during the hottest part of the day before they launched the attack after spotting a herd in the distance. Despite a relentless attempt by the predators to maul its tail and wrestle it to the ground, the buffalo managed to escape.

The million dollar mobile home: State-of-the-art RV boasts eight flat screen TVs, sky lounge rooftop, tanning beds and even fireplaces

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A range of luxury RVs have hit the market with an eye-watering starting price tag of $1,374,451 but they are a whole different breed to the campers snow-haired retirees favored in the 1970s. Rather than just a place to sleep while on the road, these mobile mansions have more amenities than your average Hamptons summer rental, decked out with upright pianos, treadmills, tanning beds, recording studios for musician types, and fireplaces

ALIEN OR TIME TRAVELLER? Watch man VANISH into thin air as he walks down the road

A MAN filmed walking down the street suddenly disappears from view in this creepy footage.

The mystery walker can be seen walking down a dark street in Jackson, Wyoming, but his body starts to grow transparent.
Eventually the shape completely disappears from view, with only a pair of white dots moving along where he once stood.

A plane in every driveway! Welcome to the Top Gun village where people fly to work

WE reckon if we lived in this village the commute to work each day wouldn't be so bad.
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That's because everyone in the Spruce Creek community of Florida owns their own plane.
Driveways are filled with planes after around 5,000 resident made the former military base their home.
And fittingly Top Gun star Tom Cruise and ex-wife Nicole Kidman stayed at Spruce Creek when filming Days of Thunder in 1990.
The location was ideal for the cast and crew because it is seven miles south of Daytona Beach and the Daytona International Speedway, where the racing drama was filmed.
Signs are dotted around the streets of the All-American village, particularly near the 18 hole golf course where teeing off could be hazardous because of low-flying planes.
Prices for properties in the fly-in community range from £100,000 for a small condo to millions of pounds for a hangar mansion.

Wednesday, 7 May 2014

VIDEO: Teen stowaway jumps from plane wheel well after FIVE HOURS on board

THIS is the extraordinary moment a 15-year-old jumps from a jet after five hours stowed in the wheel  well.
Somali immigrant Yahya Abdi’s legs dangle briefly from the plane and he drops onto the concrete at Maui airport.
Hawaii transportation officials released the footage this week and confirms previous accounts given by FBI and airport officials of Yahya’s unbelievable story.
He ran away from home, hopped a fence at Mineta San Jose International Airport and climbed into the wheel well of the closest plane.
Abdi survived the flight at 35,000 feet despite low oxygen and freezing temperatures.
The six minutes of security footage that the Hawaii Department of Transportation released show Abdi lowering himself from the Boeing 767 and jumping to the ground.
He sits on the concrete for 13 seconds, then gets up and slowly walks toward the front of the plane.
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