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Florida Man's 18-foot, 9-inch Hat Might Be World's Tallest
By Ben Hooper
March 1 (UPI) - - A Florida artist said he has sub- mitted paper- work
to Guinness World
Records to have his 18-foot, 9- inch-tall hat rec- ognized as the world's tallest.
Self-described milliner -- or hat maker -- Odilon Ozare of Tampa said his massive top hat mea- sures 18 feet and 9 inches tall, easily best- ing the currently Guinness World Record of 9 feet and 9 inches.
Ozare said he is waiting to hear back from Guinness after sending in docu- mentation con- firming that his is indeed the world's tallest hat.
The artist said it took about seven weeks to make the hat, which features real peacock feathers as well as rhinestones, ribbons and bird decorations.
Ozare said the hat will soon go on display at Ella's Folkart Cafe in Tampa.
"Hats have always been used to enhance the greatness of the wearer," Ozare tweeted. "The taller the hat the greater the wearer."
Venomous Snake Turns Up In Australian Lunchbox
A
woman has dis- covered a high- ly venomous snake in her child's lunchbox in Australia.
The juvenile snake was spotted in a lid as the woman packed school lunches in Adelaide, according to reptile handler Rolly Burrell.
Mr Burrell said he advised her to close the box and take it out- side, after the woman had called him for assistance.
He identified the reptile as an
east-
ern brown, one of the world's most venomous snakes.
"Not really what you expect to see when you check if [your] child ate their fruit," Mr Burrell wrote on Facebook.
He said the snake was removed with- out incident.
Mr Burrell said even juvenile snakes had dangerous venom.
"It is very lucky that she spotted the snake... a little kid would
not
even feel the bite from some- thing so small," he told the BBC.
The snake catcher said he suspected the reptile had headed for the pantry because it was "one of the darkest spots in the house".
The species is found along coastal and inland areas of mainland Australia. It has been responsi- ble for 23 deaths since 2000, a study of coroner's data found last year.
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