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Baboon 'causes massive blackout' in Zambia

A baboon interfered with electricity installations in Zambia’s tourist capital, Livingstone, and cut power supply to about 50,000 customers.

The animal managed to access a power station in the area on Sunday, and tampered with high voltage machines that supply electricity to the southern and western provinces of Zambia, according to Henry Kapata, the spokesman for the country’s power utility, Zesco.

He said Livingstone's 28,000 residents and a further 22,000 people in the region were completely without power for about six hours while repair works were carried out.

Mr Kapata also told the BBC:It [the baboon] received a massive electricity shock but as you know baboons are highly insulated by nature and it survived with severe burns. Had it been a human being, it would have died.”

The Zesco spokesman said the baboon’s electricity shock was caught on CCTV:

  If it were a human being, it would have been prosecuted for vandalism and faced a minimum 10 years in jail with a maximum 25 years”.

Mr Kapata said power has since been restored with the animal handed over to local wildlife authorities for treatment.

California man sentenced to 16 years in prison for killing 21 cats

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- A Santa Clara County Superior Court judge has sentenced a 26-year-old California man to 16 years in prison for killing 21 cats, some of which he lured from people's homes.

Robert Roy Farmer pleaded guilty last year to 21 felony counts of animal cruelty and one count each of misdemeanor battery and being under the influence.

The cats began mysteriously disappearing from San Jose's Cambrian Park neighborhood in September 2015. Then cats began turning up dead, the Mercury News of San Jose reported Friday.

Farmer was arrested on October 8, 2015, as he slept in his car, CBS San Francisco reported. San Jose police found an unidentified orange tabby dead curled up in the center console, along with chunks of fur, blood, fur-covered gloves and a hunting knife.

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The Null Stern hotel in Switzerland on a Mountain

It looks more like a film set than a hotel.

But this open-air Swiss attraction has hundreds of people queuing up to stay, despite it having no ceiling, walls, toilet or indeed any facilities at all.

The Null Stern hotel is solely a double bed, with a nightstand and lamps, perched on the top of a mountain.

While reservations can be cancelled at short notice due to bad weather (unsurprisingly) every night available at the hotel is currently booked.

For the cost of SFR 250 (£191) per night, guests are immersed in nature at 6,463 feet above sea level in the Graubunden mountains.

Though the closest bathroom is a public toilet a ten minute walk away, guests will have a butler on hand to welcome them and serve them a salami sandwich and coffee in the morning. But would you give it a go

It looks more like a film set than a hotel. But this open-air Swiss attraction has hundreds of people queuing up to stay

 

This is in spite of it having no ceiling, walls, toilet or indeed any facilities at all - though the views more than make up for it

 

The Null Stern hotel, pictured being installed, is solely a double bed, with a nightstand and lamps, perched on the top of a mountain

 

While reservations can be cancelled at short notice due to bad weather (unsurprisingly) every night available at the hotel is currently booked

 

For the cost of SFR 250 (£191) per night, guests are immersed in nature at 6,463 feet above sea level in the Graubunden mountains

 

Though the closest bathroom is a public toilet a ten minute walk away, guests will have a butler on hand to welcome them and serve them a salami sandwich and coffee in the morning

 

Before checking in, guests are forewarned that while the room is available every night between spring and autumn, their booking can be cancelled at the last minute should the weather go south

Credit:Daily Mail