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Man Plays Dead To
Circumvent
Coronavirus Lockdown
By Spooky
You’ve probably seen people hiding in the bushes and wearing all kinds of silly disguises in order to go outside without being stopped by police, but now you can add faking death to the list of things people have resorted to in order to circumvent the coronavirus lock- down.
Just like Italy, India imposed nation- wide lockdown from last Wednesday to fight the spread of the coronavirus pandemic, which
left many citizens stranded hundreds of kilometers away from home, with no way to return. That was the case of Hakim Din, a 70-year-old villager from Poonch, in India’s disputed Kashmir region. He was being treated for a minor head injury at a hospital in Jammu, a few hundred kilo- meters away from home, when the lockdown was enforced, and he started looking for ways to get back. When an ambu- lance driver sug- gested that he play dead in order to get past the check-
points, he jumped at the opportunity.
According to Poonch Superintendent of Police, Ramesh Angral, Din and three others man- aged to get past several control checkpoints by lying perfectly still under white cov- ers. The ambu- lance driver also mislead authorities by showing them a fake death certifi- cate from the hos- pital. However, at the last checkpoint before they reached home, the ambulance was stopped and the “dead bodies” inspected.
“A policeman there immediately fig- ured out that the men lying covered inside the ambu- lance could not be dead,” Angral said.
The men were arrested and quar- antined separately, the Superintendent added. They are now facing charges of “cheat- ing and defying the government’s pro- hibitory orders”.
93-year-old Woman's Viral Plea For Beer Answered By Coors
By Ben Hooper
April 13 (UPI) -- A 93-year-old Pennsylvania woman whose plea to neighbors for more beer went viral on social media is getting her request fulfilled by Coors.
Olive Veronesi, 93, of Seminole, went viral after news station
KDKA-TV shared a photo on Facebook show- ing her standing with a can of Coors Light and holding a sign in her window read- ing, "I need more beer.
Veronesi said several people have since reached out offer- ing her beer.
"It's nice, some-
thing for a young lady,"
Veronesi told KDKA-TV.
Coors Light said in a Twitter
post Sunday that Veronesi would soon be receiving some beer direct- ly from the com- pany.
"Olive asked, and beer is on its way!" the tweet said.