Telangana 2015: Unusual events abound

Hyderabad: Pencil in the heart: In a freak accident, a sharpened pencil pierced the heart of a six-year-old boy, Charan, from Nasampet in Warangal. The pencil was in his pocket when he fell down while running. It pierced his skin, went between the ribs and entered his heart. Luckily, the doctors in Warangal didn’t try to remove the pencil which remained embedded in the heart from 4 pm on July 10 till early morning on July 11, till doctors at a super specialty hospital removed it.

Iron wire in Chicken Kabab: A 3 cm x 2 mm iron wire found its way in a chicken kabab, which was eaten by a 42-year-old man from Prakasam district. The wire entered the food pipe and pierced through the neck bone and got stuck in the spinal chord, making swallowing very difficult for him. The man was rushed to Hyderabad where it had to be very delicately removed as a hard tug could affect the movement of his head, hands and legs.

Son of the mountain: Ace mountaineer Malli Masthan Babu died in the mountain ranges at the Argentina-Chile border in March 2015.

Freak mishap of the year: A granite lorry rammed into a train at Anantapur, killing people sleeping inside the train.

Polite thief: In Visakhapatnam, a thief after robbing two apartments in the same building, scribbled a message on the wall: “Dear ACP, CI and SI, there is no cash and gold in the house hence I ma taking the car, TV and camera from the house. I also stole 60 gm of gold ornaments and '20,000 in cash from the first floor.”

Modern copying: A woman in Vijayawada was caught Whatspping her question paper to a friend during a postal exam.

Psycho syringe: A man on a motorcycle, who went on a spree piercing women with a syringe in AP and TS is yet to be caught by cops.

Vegas in Vijayawada: Temporary gambling and cockfight tents were set up in Vijayawada in controversial MLA Bode Prasad’s constituency Penamaluru. Thousands came to the place to gamble during Sankranti in January 2015.

Bunty and Bubbly:  Two lovers were arrested by the police for series of thefts just before their marriage.

Reverse feat: A musician from Vijayawada played the guitar and sang over 18 songs for 40 minutes while hanging upside down.

Raining fish: It rained fish in Gollamudi village of Krishna district.

Guerrilla archer: A tribal would emerge from the forest and shoot arrows from behind at passersby.

Suicide of cricketer Durga Bhavani.

Small wonder: Three-year-old Dolly Shivani shot 72 arrows in an hour to set a new world record of scoring highest points in recurve archery.

The phrase of the year:  “Manavallu briefed me” was the new term used by fun seekers. In an alleged call record of AP CM Chandrababu Naidu regarding the cash-for-vote scam, he used the phrase “Manavallu briefed me”.

Gift of the year:
Hero Pawan Kalyan gifting mangoes from his farmhouse to AP CM Chandrababu Naidu.
 

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