‘Short’ jibes boost male demand for leg-lengthening surgery
And other stories from the stranger side of life
Demand is growing from men for leg-lengthening surgery, a doctor has said. The procedure, normally used to treat skeletal dysplasia, bone growth issues and bone length differences, has become popular among men who are worried about their height, said Dr Shahab Mahboubian, a surgeon at the Height Lengthening Institute in Burbank, California. “The ‘short’ jokes keep going on and they feel inferior,” he told NBC News.
Dealers caught after leaving heroin in pub
Drug dealers were busted after they accidentally left £50,000 worth of heroin in a pub, reported The Times. The gang were jailed for more than 30 years combined after two of them left the heroin in a local pub and went back to retrieve it. Kevin Condliffe, Richard McLean, Kieron Ellis, and Jonathan Fincham were sentenced at Truro crown court after pleading guilty to conspiracy to the supply of Class A controlled drugs.
D&D world record set in Utah
More than 1,000 people gathered at a shopping mall in the US to break the world record for the largest Dungeons & Dragons game ever played. The organiser said there were a total 1,227 role players at the game in Utah, comfortably outstripping the goal of 500 set by Guinness World Records. “It hasn’t hit me, yet. So far, it's been a dream, an absolute dream," Andrew Ashby told KSL-TV. “The D&D community is very nerdy and very supportive.”
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Chas Newkey-Burden has been part of The Week Digital team for more than a decade and a journalist for 25 years, starting out on the irreverent football weekly 90 Minutes, before moving to lifestyle magazines Loaded and Attitude. He was a columnist for The Big Issue and landed a world exclusive with David Beckham that became the weekly magazine’s bestselling issue. He now writes regularly for The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Independent, Metro, FourFourTwo and the i new site. He is also the author of a number of non-fiction books.
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