An officer celebrates Valentine's Day his way ... and a person puts a snake instead of a muzzle

Funny events broke the gloom of 2020

With the emergence of Corona, mass hysteria spread among consumers over toilet paper.

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Although 2020 will remain printed with the anxiety that prevailed in the world due to the "Covid-19" pandemic, this year also witnessed strange or strange events that violated the general gloomy atmosphere.

Here are 11 of those funny and strange events:

Armored marriage proposal

An officer in the Russian army chose to celebrate Valentine's Day in a special way. He surrounded himself with 16 T-72B3 armored vehicles lined up "in the shape of a heart", with the aim of asking his girlfriend's hand in marriage.

Denis Kazantsev fell on his knee in snowy weather carrying a bouquet of flowers in his hands to ask for his girlfriend's hand at the Alabeno military base near Moscow.

His fiancée, Alexandra Kopetova, did not hide her astonishment at this "unexpected" request.

Theft of toilet paper

Three men armed with knives carried out a robbery against a truck driver at the end of February in a Hong Kong district, where they stole his shipment of toilet paper, with a proceeds of more than 1,000 local dollars (129 US dollars).

With the emergence of the new Corona virus in China, what appeared to be a collective hysteria among consumers around the world, as they began to buy toilet papers for fear of being cut off.

Ski at home

The long days of home quarantine during the "Covid-19" pandemic have prompted many around the world to create strange activities through which they defy the boredom that may result from staying at home constantly.

Among them, a 28-year-old young man from Barcelona photographed himself in early April practicing skiing movements indoors on the roof of a "mountain" that is nothing but a bed sheet.

The young man posted a video recording of nearly a minute's duration and showed him practicing various movements of skiing, using the complete equipment for the sport, in scenes taken through a camera installed on the ceiling.

Corona is the name of a child

With the aim of countering preconceptions about "Covid-19", a couple in southeast India named their two children, born last April, (Corona Kumar) and (Corona Kumari).

In India, too, an immigrant couple, who was stuck in an area thousands of kilometers from their home, chose to name their child "Lockdown" (Close).

It is raining lawn

Hundreds of bags filled with marijuana fell from the sky on a square in Tel Aviv in September, prompting passers-by.

But what happened is not a miracle, but rather an initiative by a group that supports legalizing hashish in Israel, and has announced its intention to do the same initiative elsewhere in the country.

Two people were arrested for operating the drone used in the operation.

A "snake" is wrapped around his neck and face

A person boarded a bus in Manchester, Britain, last September, wrapping a snake around its neck and face.

One witness confirmed that this scene "did not bother anyone," even when the snake began exploring the bus.

The British authorities clarified that the possibility of using alternative masks "does not include the use of snake skin, especially if it is attached to the snake."

He succeeded in the elections .. after his death

Residents of a small Romanian village reelected their mayor for a new term ... but 11 days after his death from "Covid-19" on September 17th.

After the polls closed, the village residents went to the mayor's cemetery to "congratulate" him, carrying candles, on what a resident of the area reported on Facebook.

An electronic "chip" of cow dung

The Indian National Committee for Cows announced in mid-October that it had developed an electronic "chip" using cow dung to protect users from cell phone radiation.

The head of this official body, which was established last year by the government of the Hindu nationalist president, Narendra Modi, confirmed that "all this is scientifically proven."

Exit permit .. to be beaten

A 39-year-old French man wrote on the exit permit that is required to be filled out to justify the reason for leaving, during the closure period last November, that the justification for leaving the house is his desire to "beat a young man."

The policeman, who wrote an arrest report of 135 euros for the young man, said that the latter "was carrying a handwritten permit with his real name and the time to leave the house," explaining that the policemen told him that "the justification is not valid."

"The whale tail saved him."

A metro train escaped a disaster on November 2, after it broke through a checkpoint near the Dutch city of Rotterdam, to settle at a giant whale tail, sparing the driver of the vehicle, which was empty of passengers, an inevitable black fate.

In a remarkable coincidence, the artistic model that protected the train from destruction bears the title "Saved by the whale's tail."

An Austrian town that changes its scandalous name

Residents of an Austrian village decided to change its name from “Voking” to “Vagging”, starting January 1, 2021, due to the outrageous connotation of the English term, hoping to curb excessive interest in it on the part of Internet users.

In recent years, many people have visited the village to take pictures of them next to the traffic signs bearing its name, with some adopting a banal method in order to achieve popularity on Internet platforms.

The long quarantine days, during the pandemic, prompted many around the world to create strange activities.

Residents of a Romanian village elected their mayor for a new term, 11 days after his death.

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