SIDELINES…
PERSONAL SERVICES
Teenage dog walking entrepreneur Lucy Hignett, 19, got a rather different response than she expected when she placed an ad for her services in the local parish magazine. A typo substituted an “N” for the “L” in “dog walking” and as a result she was inundated with “disgusting messages.” A print worker at the magazine said, “No one did it maliciously.” Sun, 3 Mar 2020.
HEARTLESS HERO
When Argentine football deity Diego Maradona died in 2020, he was apparently buried without his heart according to a book written by a doctor, Nelson Castro. The heart was removed to foil a plot by fans of his final team, Gimnasiay Esgrima La Plata, to dig up his grave and steal it. vice.com, 24 Nov 2021.
FACEBOOK OF THE DEAD
In October Facebook revealed that it had rebranded its parent company as “Meta”, causing
