| "Dot-Com" News - 6th November, 2009 | ||||
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More than 230,000 people joined Facebook group called Needle In A Haystack to try and reunite camera and owner. It was set up by Australian Danny Cameron after he found the camera on the Greek island of Mykonos. He hoped the theory anybody in the world can be contacted within "six degrees of separation" would lead him to find the tourists whose pictures were saved on the memory card. Three friends, Pierre Paoli, Edouard Hostein and Julien Kopp, have now come forward to end the intrigue. "It's not a hoax, it is absolutely real," Mr Paoli, who works in London, told Sky News. "We were on holiday and our friend Marie Cecile lost her camera." Mr Hostein, who separately named Marie Cecile as the owner, described it as an "amazing story, unbelievable". "I confirm that the camera's owner is one of my friends and I am on a picture with two other friends, Pierre Paoli and Julien Kopp." Mr Cameron has now closed the group with one last posting: "Congratulations everyone, the camera owner has been found... thanks everyone for taking part... unbelievable effort. I am amazed and in awe of you all. "We can all leave the group now... nothing more to see here... pop the champagne!!" Passenger accidentally activated ejector seat A passenger in an air force display team shot himself 100 metres into the sky when he accidentally activated the ejector seat. The man was reaching for something to steady himself during a mid-air manoeuvre when he pulled on the black and yellow emergency handle between his legs. As soon as it was activated, the ejection sequence activated two rockets attached to the back of his chair, shooting him through the perspex canopy. The man, who has not been named, later floated back down to Earth on a parachute which opened automatically. South African Air Force bosses scrambled a helicopter to pick up the passenger after the blunder near Langebaanweg airfield, 80 miles north of Cape Town. The incident happened shortly after he took off for a joyride in the Pilatus PC-7 Mk II plane with an experienced pilot from South Africa's Silver Falcons air display team. Experts said the man was lucky to escape unharmed following the bizarre incident. World's biggest meatball A US restaurant has broken the world record for the largest meatball. Matthew Mitnitsky, the owner of Nonni's Italian Eatery in Concord, New Hampshire, said his 222.5lb (101kg) meatball had been verified by Guinness World Records. Mr Mitnitsky said he wanted "to bring the meatball back to the East Coast", reports the BBC. The old record of 198.6lb (90kg) was set only two months ago after the US talk show host, Jimmy Kimmel, vowed to beat a record set in Mexico in August. To break the record, the meatball must be a larger-scale version of the normal food item with the same classic ingredients, be made in one day, and be edible. Mr Mitnitsky's record-breaking meatball was later donated to the Friendly Kitchen in Concord to feed the hungry. |
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Facebook finds lost camera owner