Newspapers in Nigeria recently gave prominence to a report from Port Harcourt that a vulture, hit by a stone thrown by a boy, turned into a baby as it hit the ground and then into an old man.

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No-one was hit by the thrown bottle that bounced against a wall behind the spectators.

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The gardener had pointed to a thick bamboo stem and explained that if a pebble was thrown at it and it hit the trunk slightly off-centre, it would bounce off and make hardly any sound.

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