Author: Sarah Hooper

Javeria managed to break her jaw in two places when she bit into the candy (Picture: Kennedy News) A student was horrified when a ‘jaw breaker‘ candy lived up to its name and snapped her jaw in two. Javeria Wasim and her friend bought three-inch jawbreaker candies while shopping last month, and after becoming ‘impatient’ to reach the gumball, the 19-year-old attempted to bite into the treat. As soon as she bit down, Javeria’s jaw began to hurt and a friend pointed out her front tooth was chipped and another was wiggly. The duo called an ambulance to take Javeria to the hospital, where an X-ray and CT scan found she suffered two fractures in her jaw. The ‘wiggly’ tooth spotted by Javeria’s friend became loose because it was on top of the bone which split. Javeria could not open her mouth but had no idea she had fractured her jaw until she was sent into surgery the next day. After the one-hour procedure, her jaw was put back into place and a bar was inserted on her top and bottom gums, wiring it shut for the next six weeks. An X-ray revealed two fractures in her jaw (Picture: Kennedy News) Javeria’s jaw has to be wired shut for six weeks (Picture: Kennedy News) She admits the incident ‘traumatised’ her enough to avoid the candy for life. Javeria said: ‘I used to have them as a little kid, I’ve seen videos of people biting into the small ones but I’d never seen anyone bite into the big ones. ‘I bit into it and only made a hole and my jaw started to hurt. My friend looked over and said my tooth was chipped. It hurt bad, I was crying a lot when the ambulance came and everything was blurry.’ Javeria’s ‘wiggly’ bottom tooth is now sideways and she said she will need braces to fix her bottom teeth, as well as her front teeth that have ‘separated’.

T2 the turkey goes everywhere with her owner – even to Parkrun(Picture: Tony Kershaw) Britain’s luckiest turkey survived the Christmas Day chop by going on a 5k Parkrun with her owner. Dave Brooker, 58, takes his beloved pet turkey Trouble Version Two, or T2 for short, everywhere with him – including to the pub and dentist. The Maidstone-based pet owner feeds T2 meat from a scotch egg and even cheese and onion crisps in the pub. T2 has had such an effect on her owner over their three years together that David has now turned fully vegetarian. This year, he took T2 on a Christmas Parkrun, saying: ‘It might also make people think twice about eating turkey. I think they’re lovely animals. They’re very intelligent and sentient. It’s also a nice way to show her off.’ The unlikely duo’s story began when David, who keeps turkeys for their eggs, was forced to care for newborn T2 before she could return to her mother, Trouble. The small turkey loves going on adventures with her owner (Picture: Tony Kershaw) He explained: ‘Her mum was sitting on a dozen eggs and the weather turned awful. The first two that hatched died, so I set up a brooder to get the turkeys strong enough to go back under their mum. ‘T2 was the first one out and I fed her for 10 or 11 hours. She was on her own with me checking on her and must have thought I was her parent. The others all went back underneath the mother quite easily, but not T2.’ Since then, T2 has gone everywhere with owner David and even provides him with entertainment. The bond between the two is so strong that David stopped eating turkey on Christmas dinner – likening it to eating a dog. ‘When you keep an animal it’s quite hard… Maybe if you’re a farmer you can switch off to it, but I’m a bit of a

The boar didn’t injure anyone, but caused chaos (Picture: SWNS) Shoppers were startled when they saw a wild boar perusing the supermarket aisles. Customers at Super Point Hypermarket in Kerala, India, were doing their normal shopping when a surprise visitor entered the premises. A wild boar managed to enter the shop and began jumping on carefully set-up displays on Christmas Eve. Terrified shoppers called the Kahangad Fire Department to help the situation, but even they couldn’t coax the boar out of the shop. Eventually, the animal spotted a way out and ran outside, to the relief of shoppers and employees. A fire department official said the boar caused panic, but luckily, no one was hurt. After sniffing around for a bit, the boar returned to the forest (Picture: SWNS) Five wild boars were spotted ‘on a night out’ as they strolled past a town centre pub earlier this year in Gloucestershire. Britain has a burgeoning boar population in areas such as the Forest of Dean – where one man had his finger bitten off by one. The pigs there have been attacking pets, dog walkers and have even learned when bin day is – so they can come into urban areas and rummage for food. In England, boars were hunted to extinction 700 years ago but became established again in the Forest in the 1990s. Wild boar are stocky, powerful animals covered in bristly hair that can vary from dark brown to gingery brown. Get in touch with our news team by emailing us at webnews@metro.co.uk. For more stories like this, check our news page .