Odd News Roundup: Man bites snake

Following is a summary of current odd news briefs.

Grasshoppers take Vegas by swarm, disrupting weather radar, tourism

Swarms of grasshoppers have descended upon America's Sin City in unusual abundance this week, disrupting weather radars, deterring tourists and invoking hysteria on social media. The clouds of buzzing insects, whose migration through the Las Vegas Valley scientists say is the result of a wetter-than-normal winter, were big enough that the National Weather Service detected them on its radar.

Trial of strength at 2,000 meters altitude: Celtic wrestling in Austria

Every year around St. Jacob's Day, men from Austria's Salzburg region grapple with each other in a natural arena at the top of the Hundstein mountain in a traditional martial arts contest - the Hundstoa, or Jakobi Ranggeln. The Celtic wrestling tradition, which was included in UNESCO's cultural heritage list in 2010, goes back more than 500 years.

'Definitely weird': man bites snake

An Indian man who was bitten by a snake got his revenge on the reptile by biting it back and killing it, the man's father said on Monday. The man, Raj Kumar, was relaxing at home, enjoying a drink on Sunday, when a snake slithered into his house in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh and bit him, said his father.

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