The Antidote: Five happy things to read about today, July 28 – صحيفة الصوت

We live in unusual times. It all gets a bit much some days. So each weekday we’re bringing you a much-needed dose of positivity to remind you that there’s inspiration, kindness and quirkiness out there too.

The crime fighting duo – Emu & the chef

England has two new, unexpected celebrities – a 42-year-old chef and a massive emu, who inadvertently teamed up to help catch a driver who fled a crash scene, the Washington Post reports.

Dean Wade, a chef at Old Bell Hotel in Malmesbury, England saw a “drunk” driver, who caused a crash after narrowly missing pedestrians and causing extensive damage, fleeing the scene and decided to chase him across the town.

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The 20-minute chase came to an end when the driver ended up in Malmesbury Animal Sanctuary and that’s where the real confrontation began.

Ignoring the advice of Wade, the driver had entered an emu’s pen where he was pecked repeatedly by a mother emu, enabling Wade to flag down a nearby police car.

Following Wade and the emu’s successful partnership in catching the driver, the hotel and the animal sanctuary have also teamed up – striking a deal that sees staff deliver bucket loads of vegetable peelings from the kitchen to the animals each day in a bid to reduce food waste.

First three sisters to ever climb Everest

Three Nepalese sisters, Dawa Futi Sherpa, Tshering Namgya Sherpa and Nima Jangmu Sherpa have earned the Guinness World Record for the most sisters to climb Everest together, UPI News reports.

Sherpa sisters succeeded in their adventurous expedition with the help of their brother who is a renowned climber in Nepal and became the first group of three sisters to ever climb Everest together as a family.

Mount Everest is said to be Sherpa sister’s first peak in an incredible project which they dubbed “Three Sisters on Seven Summits” where they aim to climb all highest summits on each of the seven continents.

“Our grandfather and father were climbers. We want to dedicate our Mount Everest summit to our late father, Dorjee Sherpa, who used to be a climbing Sherpa and guide,” Dawa Futi Sherpa told Guinness World Records.

The trio’s next adventurous expedition would be Russia’s Mount Elbrus.

How do you feel about running 100km daily for 6 weeks?

It is nightmare for most people to run few kilometres a day let alone run 100km daily for six weeks.

But for Australian Nedd Brockmann it is a way of helping people struggling with homelessness by raising A$1 million (NZ$1.1m) for charity We Are Mobilise.

When Brockmann moved from the rural town of Forbes to Sydney, Australia, he was struck by the number of people living rough. “It was quite overwhelming, confronting. I wanted to help out,” he told ABC News.

Brockmann is planning to start his charity run on September 1 from Perth’s Cottlesloe Beach and cover a distance almost of 4000km to reach Sydney in fewer than 43 days.

This is the second time that Brockmann has attempted a charity run as he ran 50 marathons in 50 days back in 2020 to raise A$100,000 for the Red Cross.

‘Pina colada’ strawberry

A research station in Queensland, Australia’s Sunshine Cost has developed two new varieties of strawberries, one of which tastes like a pina colada, 9News reports.

Both the varieties have white colour interior with one type having white and a pale pink blush on outside and the other having a pink or almost a peachy colour exterior.

Watch how you can identify these ‘pina colada’ strawberries from your everyday ones and more information on future strawberry surprises that they have in their baskets in the video above.

“Emmanuel, don’t do it!”

If you are on TikTok, this might be quite familiar phrase that have you in splits.

Emmanuel, an emu in Florida, US has captured the hearts of millions through his unscripted and disruptive behaviour on videos posted by his caretaker Taylor Blake.

Blake’s stern order of “Emmanuel don’t do it” whenever the feathered Australian native looms in front of the camera lens, all ready to peck Blake’s phone, has become a catchphrase online and has even generated a hashtag #emmanueldontdoit.

Emmanuel’s viral, scene stealing social media presence at Blake’s tiktok account even resulted in an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.

Watch some of Emmanuel’s star moments above.