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- Rare Condition Leaves 19-Year-Old Girl Looking Like a Preschooler
- Singapore Runs Out of Human Waiters, Uses Drones Instead
- “Baby” Conman Wore Diapers and Suckled on Lollipops to Trick Women He Was a Lost Overgrown Child
| Rare Condition Leaves 19-Year-Old Girl Looking Like a Preschooler Posted: 12 Feb 2015 04:38 AM PST This little girl from Huzhu, China's Sichuan Province, looks like an ordinary preschooler. Except she is actually 19 years old! Zeng Yushan apparently suffers from a rare medical condition that caused her to stop growing at the age of seven. When she was seven years old, Zeng was diagnosed with a tumor on her pituitary gland, which caused a deficiency in growth hormones. While the condition is treatable, her parents unfortunately couldn't afford it. Instead, they fought bitterly and divorced, leaving Zeng in the care of her father Yul Wei. Shortly after the divorce, Yul was also diagnosed with a serious illness. Unable to pay for either of their medical bills, the father and daughter duo were forced to beg on the streets. They frequently traveled from their home to the cities of Zigong, Chengdu, and Guiyang, in the hope that Zeng's unusual appearance would earn them some cash. |
| Singapore Runs Out of Human Waiters, Uses Drones Instead Posted: 12 Feb 2015 03:18 AM PST A Singapore restaurant has come up with a very innovative solution to cope with the shortage of manpower affecting the whole island city – flying robot waiters! The Infinium Robotics' drones are all set to be introduced at the local restaurant-bar chain by the end of this year. Availability of manpower has become an issue all over Singapore, ever since the government introduced curbs on cheap and foreign labor in order to slow down immigration. The restaurant industry has long depended on foreign labor, because young Singaporeans tend to look down on service jobs. Several well-known restaurants and food stalls have actually shut down in recent months due to manpower shortage and high rent costs. In order to cope with the situation, a few restaurateurs have been experimenting with new ways – right from robots who can wok-fry rice and noodles, to iPad menus and bullet train delivery systems. But this is the first time a restaurant will have drones that serving diners. |
| “Baby” Conman Wore Diapers and Suckled on Lollipops to Trick Women He Was a Lost Overgrown Child Posted: 12 Feb 2015 12:32 AM PST Alberto Julian Meza, a strange South American con man, was arrested recently in Paraguay for tricking people into believing that he was a lost, overgrown child. The 25-year-old mainly targeted older women – he dressed up in nappies and sucked on lollipops, pretending that he was lost and searching for his mummy. Believe it or not, it worked. According to locals in the town of Villa Elisa, a suburb of Asuncion, Meza was regularly seen walking around in his adult diapers.. At first they had assumed that he was mentally ill, but in reality, he would fool women into letting him into their homes, and later steal whatever he could when they were fixing him a snack or bringing him a drink. "I am surprised that the police have only just now arrested him," said local resident Lara Orta Ornelas. "He has been doing this for years and I know the police have had complaints before, but it's incredible they never realized the baby is actually a fully grown man. |
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