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Police in the US were shocked when a woman called 911 to report she'd received the wrong order from a Chinese takeaway. Officials have now released the audio of the call in a bid to highlight the type of calls people should not be making to the emergency number. During the two minute call, the woman asks for police officers to be dispatched to the restaurant in Savannah, Georgia. "I need the police. It's this Hong Kong type restaurant to go," the woman said when asked what was the emergency. "I ordered food and they done bring the wrong food. I done brought it outside and they ain't going to give me my money and I need my money. "Uh-uh, I need to someone to handle this. They ain't going to do me in any kind of way." Officers were eventually dispatched - but only to give the woman a caution for wasting police time. • The gold-lined streets of New York An unemployed man claims to be making £300 a week combing the streets of New York with tweezers for dropped gems and gold. Jewelers setter Raffi Stepanian, 43, has begun crawling around the Diamond District on his hands and knees, reports the Daily Telegraph. Armed with a pair of tweezers, Mr Stepanian, from Queens, claims to have collected more than £600 worth of precious metals and stones in the past fortnight. "I'm surviving on it," he said. "I may be about to trigger a new gold rush on the streets of New York. The soil in the sidewalks of 47th street are saturated with the stuff." Mr Stepanian's haul so far has included chips of diamonds and rubies, bits of platinum, and gold fragments from watches, earrings and necklaces. He has sold most of his discoveries to metal refiners or diamond sellers, while keeping some gold with a view to melting it down for future use. "You might get $30 per piece, but it all adds up," he said. "It is a rich area and people simply drop things, or their jewelers falls on the street, and it gets stuck in the mud or the gum." Mr Stepanian said that his surgical inspection of pavement cracks had been so fruitful that he had taken 25lb of soil from the area home with him to sift later on. "Being in the jewellery industry for 26 years, it was second nature to spot glistening fragments on the floors and in elevators," he said. "It was always tempting to pick them up. Now that's what I'm doing." • Breakdancing gorilla goes viral A gorilla caught on film 'break dancing' at a zoo in Canada has become an online star. Keepers at Calgary Zoo filmed eight-year-old Zola dancing in a puddle of water, reports the Calgary Sun. They say he gets so excited about playing in water that he breaks out into spontaneous little dances. The clip, which has attracted 425,000 hits on YouTube, shows Zola splashing, spinning on one heel and stomping through the puddle. Calgary Zoo spokeswoman Laurie Skene said the zoo was trying to raise awareness about the plight of the highly-endangered Western Lowland gorillas. As part of that, the zoo's senior gorilla keeper had taken a pocket video camera into the enclosure so he could capture some "gorilla stuff". "He told us that Zola likes to play in water and just caught this moment in time," said Skene. "The whole behavior of just being fascinated with water and splashing and playing is something that they do in the wild and some gorillas do in captivity as well. "I don't think we had any idea that it would gain this kind of popularity - and in essence raise that much awareness." |
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