Casting wide webs

Spiders in Australia have cast webs over larges areas of flood ravaged lands, Reuters has reported.

Experts say this type of behaviour is normal after floods. The creatures were simply trying to spin sticky webs to anchor themselves from the torrents of water.

Entomology collections manager Graham Milledge at The Australian Museum has told Australian media: “They often do it as a way of dispersing and getting into a new area. In an event like this, they are just trying to escape the floods.”

Sourced from: Reuters.

Text by: Priya Pitamber.

Jack Nicholson he is not, despite the ID

A Brazilian man has been arrested for using false identification with a picture of Hollywood actor Jack Nicholson, to open a bank account, Sky News has reported.

Police have arrested 41 year old Ricardo Sergio Freire de Barros in Recife, and he has been charged with forgery and making use of fake documents. Released images of the false identification show an image of Nicholson, but the signature of a "Joao Pedro dos Santos" coupled with a fingerprint.

"The document with the photo of the actor and other false identification were used to start a fictitious company - and with it also open a bank account," said Erivaldo Guerra, the investigative lead. "That way, he would use the limits on the cheques and the credit cards to steal money."

Sourced from: Sky News.
Text by: Priya Pitamber. 

Street View catches man peeing in garden

A French national is taking Google to court after its Street View Map application showed the man urinating in his front garden, Reuters has reported.

Despite his face being blurred, he believes he has been recognised by locals in his home village in the
Maine-et-Loire area and has since been ridiculed.  A Google camera caught the man relieving himself in November 2010.

The man wants the image to be removed and a payment of 10,000 EURO. "Everyone has the right to a degree of secrecy," his lawyer, Jean-Noel Bouillard, has said to Reuters. "In this particular case, it's more amusing than serious. But if he'd been caught kissing a woman other than his wife, he would have had the same issue."

Sourced from: Reuters.
Text by: Priya Pitamber.