A CHINESE girl called Chicken Dung has had her name legally changed now that she is an adult.
The girl’s father, Zhu Xiansheng, gave her the name on the advice of a doctor after she was ill as a baby and chicken manure was used to treat her. So she was named Ji Shi, which means Chicken Dung. She hated the name but was stuck with it until she was 18, the legal age for name changing in China, when she changed it to Yingzi.
“At last, she is no longer afraid to show anybody her ID card,” said her father, of Lindong village in Fujian province.
“She had a serious illness when she was one, and she was sick for two to three months. We didn’t think she would survive, but a local medical practitioner advised us to paste her with chicken dung while taking medications he prescribed.”
The girl made a miraculous recovery and her parents formally named her Chicken Dung in tribute to her treatment.
“I always felt embarrassed when filling in forms or signing my name,” said Yingzi.
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A POLISH mother is suing an Egyptian hotel after claiming her daughter got pregnant using its mixed swimming pool.
Magdalena Kwiatkowska is demanding compensation after her 13-year-old daughter came back from the family holiday expecting a baby.
Tourist authorities in Warsaw confirmed they had received the complaint, which states that the girl conceived because of stray sperm in the pool. “The mother is adamant that her daughter didn’t meet any boys while she was there and is determined to go ahead with the case,” according to a travel industry source.
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POLICE IN Germany are hunting a gang of British conmen who passed off a sack of potatoes as a hoard of iPods.
The conmen convinced gullible bargain hunters in Braunschweig to hand over the equivalent of €700 for what they believed to be a bag of MP3 players.
The swindlers had shown their customers electronic goodies, including laptops and mobile phones, before agreeing the price for a bag of second-hand iPods.
After the deal was done, the bargain hunters later opened the bag to find they had been passed off with about 2kg of potatoes.
Police say they are looking for three British men, as witnesses said they spoke perfect English and were driving a British-registered car.
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A GHANAIAN woman has married her dog because it has qualities she had seen only in her late father.
Emily Mabou (29) of Aburi married the 18-month-old dog in a ceremony attended by a traditional priest and local, curious villagers. Her younger brother David Mabou said her family boycotted the wedding, which they felt was “a stupid step to combat her loneliness”.
But Ms Mabou said: “For so long, I’ve been praying for a life partner who will have all the qualities of my dad. My dad was kind, faithful and loyal to my mum, and he never let her down.
“I’ve been in relationships with so many men here in Togo, and they are all the same – skirt-chasers and cheaters. My dog is kind and loyal to me, and he treats me with so much respect.”
At the ceremony, the priest warned villagers not to mock the wedding, but to “rejoice with her as she has found happiness at last”.
Asked how she intended to raise children with her new husband, Ms Mabou said simply: “We will adopt.”