Episode #13
West Midlands Takes Back Control of Buses, Nigerian Graduation Goat Goes Viral, Penn State Frat Drug Ring Used Pledges as Packagers, Missing Soldier After Bar Fight & Dog Found Swimming in Open Ocean
Mayor Andy Burnham confirms West Midlands will take public control of its local bus network in what's being called one of the largest reversals of bus privatisation in recent UK history, protecting thousands of jobs and giving the community a say over routes and fares. In Nigeria, recent graduate Promise Okoro receives a goat as a graduation gift — the unusually sociable animal loves fried rice, has been photographed in graduation gear, and goes viral, becoming a campus celebrity with students queuing for selfies. At Penn State University, police bust a cocaine operation run by two fraternities after discovering that new pledges were being forced to package drugs as part of their initiation before distributing them to fellow students. In Wylam, Northumberland, a manhunt is underway for 22-year-old soldier Liam Potts — who participated in the Queen's funeral — after he vanishes following a bar fight and alleged car ramming in the early hours of Saturday, with two men arrested and national attention on the search. And off Cedros Island in Baja California, a group of fishermen spot a dog swimming alone far out in the open ocean, haul the exhausted animal aboard, and bring it safely to shore — nobody knows how it got there. Five stories. All real. All strange. The Daily Strange — where truth is always weirder than fiction.
