Passengers shriek at real-life snake on a plane

An airline passenger found a snake underfoot after arriving at Newark Liberty International Airport. Police met the plane at its gate on Monday afternoon and “removed the garden snake”, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey told CNN. Nobody was hurt but a passenger onboard said that “passengers in business class started shrieking and pulling their feet up” while the flight was taxiing.

Baldness clinic ‘caused hair to grow at right angles’

A Glasgow hair transplant specialist at a clinic frequented by leading footballers has been struck off after allegedly causing a patient’s follicles to grow at right angles. Juan Ruiz Alconero, who was not licensed to practise in the UK when he was treating patients, was accused of “letting his assistants perform much of the surgery, of carrying out procedures without letting patients reconsider and of failing to check on them afterwards”, said The Times.

US ‘will be hit by meteor in 12 years’

A self-declared time traveller from 2236 has claimed that half of US will be wiped out by a meteor in 12 years. The “mystery timelord” also announced on TikTok that, in 2025, “scientists discover signs of life on two different planets and they are proven to be more advanced than humans”. However, noted the Daily Star, the same TikTok user previously claimed that humans would have their first interaction with aliens in July of this year.

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