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When you wake up in debt!

Updated on: 02 June,2024 07:20 AM IST  |  Australia
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An English woman’s rare disorder led her to spend three lakhs in her sleep

When you wake up in debt!

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“It’s really upsetting and frustrating going to bed thinking, ‘I don’t know what the night is going to lead to’.” Kelly Knipes, 42, whose crazy nights have landed her in debt, tells the media. The English woman suffers from a rare disorder which has led her to become a shopaholic by night.


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PICS/NY POST


An event manager, and mother of three, Knipes was diagnosed with parasomnia six years ago, a condition involving abnormal and undesirable behaviours that occur during sleep. Medical resources state that a person with parasomnia may seem to be alert, walking or talking, or eating or doing other such activities but without awareness because the brain is only partially awake. For Knipes, the activity of her subconscious’s choice is swiping her credit card. 


In the past, Knipes has purchased miscellaneous items like paints and books, to costly electronics and appliances. And that’s not all. The condition has left her susceptible to online scamsters. Knipes provided her baking details in her sleep and woke up to Rs 26,000 missing from her bank account. The initial instance left her vulnerable to further frauds, but fortunately her bank was able to block such transactions. Knipes has even had to cancel her credit cards at times. “It can be anxiety-inducing,” Knipes shared. “Everyone thinks it’s funny but it’s not. Some bits are, but some bits are quite serious,” she said.

3,17,091
The total amount spent by Kelly Knipes on slumber shopping sprees

‘Spaghetti alla Nan’

A woman put her grandmother’s ashes in her brother’s pasta, claiming a connection with her soul.

Radio show hosts always hear stories of people being stupid, offensive, or even horrifying, but a disgusting prank by a woman named Cheyenne left these Australian hosts of Fifi, Fev & Nick in shock. On the show, Cheyenne confessed to putting her grandmother’s ashes in her brother’s pasta sauce as a prank. “So my nan passed away in August last year and got cremated,” Cheyenne explained. She added, “Obviously, my family and myself were grieving, so I went over to mom’s one night and thought to cheer her up a bit, by saying let’s just taste nan.”

Cheyenne welcomed her brother with a pasta filled with their nana’s ashes, as a surprise. Pic/Getty Images
Cheyenne welcomed her brother with a pasta filled with their nana’s ashes, as a surprise. Pic/Getty Images

She also claimed that this idea was not her first, as she had once tasted the ashes by herself in the past, but wished for a company the next time, so she asked her mother.  She further added that her brother was recently released from prison, and with the intent of welcoming him, she decided to include him in the clad, without his consent. She justified her actions by saying that she wanted to make up for the lost time of being apart from her brother since childhood. That statement led to audible gasps among the hosts, with one dubbing the dish “Spaghetti alla nan.”

Brow-sing trends

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PIC/Mirror UK

After making the headlines in the past for giving herself faux freckles using an unregulated beauty treatment, Tilly Whitfield, an Australian woman suffered yet another beauty blunder. Posting online how she got her eyebrows tattoed following a trend, she asked others not to repeat the same mistake. “You want the thin 90s brows but you got yours tattooed on when dark thick brows were a trend,” she captioned the video. 

Egg-licking good

A Russian supermarket came under fire for allegedly selling compromised food products which landed 18 people in the hospital. Zhiznmart founder Ivan Zaichenko boldly claimed that the people affected will be compensated with Rs 9,17,221. Soon enough, people were at Zhiznmart, buying the sullied brand’s products in hopes of getting an infection. People had started licking eggs right there in the store for a good bounty. 

It takes two

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PICS/ODDITY CENTRAL

Two cells are all that is needed for this 19th century jail in the Island of Sark. Holding the Guinness World Record for the “world’s smallest prison”, the prison only has small, wood-slatted beds with thin mattresses for inmates to sleep.

Vodka, with the rocks

This drink will make you taste the universe. French distillery Pegasus is celebrating its debut on the US market by releasing a special drink—Rs 16,500 vodka infused with real meteorite. The organic, “Shooting Star Vodka” is made using locally sourced wheat and botanicals from France distilled using advanced technology and then is aged with pieces of meteorite inside for a year.

Four’s a crowd?

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PIC/The Sun

After being inspired by other poly couples, a girl named Tifanny got into a relationship with Jiselle, Hammy, and Raymond, simultaneously after meeting online. As they were all avid gamers, the group initially began exchanging flirty messages on Twitch and gradually became close. Hammy told the media “People will assume that we three aren’t happy somehow and we are just here for him.” She asserted that women, too have their will in poly relationships. 

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