Carey family protest atop Belfast Eye.
A major city centre security operation was launched in Belfast yesterday evening when a family of fourteen scaled the 'Belfast Eye' ferris wheel funfair ride beside the city hall in Belfast.
Cathleen TurfBurner of up near Blackpark, and her thirteen and a half wains began climbing the grade 2 listed structure at 6.30pm and had successfully reached the top of the wheel some forty minutes later. Mrs Turfburner unveiled a large banner containing the message "£4.50 for a wain to go on the Belfast eye is a disgrace and it's even smaller than the smoking area in Halo."
Belfast fire brigade and ambulance service were in attendance within ten minutes of recieving a 999 twitter alert. Police marksmen were also in attendance.
Following a tense two hour stand-off, Mrs Turfburner eventually agreed to lead her offspring down to safety having been promised two family sized chicken buckets and four 2litre bottles of mineral from KFC in Shaftsbury Square.
On reaching ground level, all fourteen were arrested and placed in Cullybackey detention centre. It is understood they are to be deported to Rathlin Island later this week. The architect responsible for the smoking area in Halo, John Toteybalcony, was not available for comment.
Torr Man finds Malt loaf in Dead Mouse.
Sheskburn District Court heard today of how a Mr. Jamesy CareyBingo of Torr got "a wile shock althigether" when he cut open a dead mouse he was having for his tea, and found a whole malt loaf inside.
The court heard how Mr. CareyBingo purchased a bag of frozen mice from a supermarket in the Knocknacarry area before Christmas 1967.
When chewing on the defrosted and lifeless mammal he discovered the remains of a malt loaf decomposed in the animal's stomach. Mr. CareyBingo told the court, "Like many folk round Torr, I have been eating mice for years. I've never seen anything like this, though. I was barely able to finish it" .
The judge fined Mr. CareyBingo, £5000 plus costs for "turning the stomach of everyone in the court".
A defence lawyer told the court that in her opinion, her client was "no worse than anyone else in the locality and imposing such a fine would cause his rat meat company to go into liquidation, putting 87% of the local community on the brew".
