Skinny dip trouble

January 16, 2012. Multi-award-winning British actress Emma Thompson was horrified when police told her that a naked middle-aged man had been spotted lurking in the grounds of her Scottish hideaway. But it soon went from bad to worse for Thompson, when her 11-year-old daughter pointed out that the “naked man” was probably her.

Thompson, who was fond of the occasional skinny dip at her holiday retreat home in Dunoon, Argyll, was spotted by a passerby, who informed the local authorities.

The Daily Mail reported: The case was cracked quickly by Thompson’s 11-year-old daughter.

“From behind me on the stairs, Gaia, in her PJs, was going, ‘Wasn’t that about the time that you came up from the river, mum?’

“Behind the house there’s a field and a pond. There are sheep in the field, but they don’t mind if I walk up naked.

“I thought, ‘Oh my God, oh my God’. Making the connection, I could see the same thing happening to the policeman.”

For the love of whisky!

An unfortunate manager at a whisky distillery in Scotland died after allegedly throwing himself into a giant vat of whisky.

Many of us are partial to the “Water of Life”, but the love of an unfortunate soul who perished at the Glenfiddich whisky distillery in Scotland takes it to another level entirely.

Brian Ettles, a manager at the famous Glenfiddich distillery at Dufftown, Banffshire, drowned in a vat of whisky recently when he reportedly threw himself into a 5m wooden tank.

He was announced dead at the scene after firemen and paramedics tried unsuccessfully to rescue him from the 50 000l container.

Shocked bosses at the Glenfiddich plant closed the popular tourist attraction for two days as a mark of respect for Ettles, and to allow police to finish their investigations undisturbed.

Zambezi shark attack, Second Beach, Port St Johns

Another fatal shark attack at Port St Johns
It seems there must be something sinister going on at Port St John’s in the Eastern Cape, where yet another bather/surfer has died in a fatal shark attack.

Late last year, we reported that scientists, concerned at the spate of serious attacks at Port St Johns’s Second Beach, had launched a study with specific focus on the habits and activities of Zambezi and Tiger sharks.

The Umzimvubu River, one of the largest rivers on the South African east coast, enters the sea at Port St Johns. It is one of several river systems used by Zambezi sharks as nursery grounds for their newborn.

A sixteen-year-old surfer was killed at the same beach just a year ago when he was attacked by a shark. – Compiled by Garth Johnstone