Last Tuesday I had what was surely one of the strangest seminars since I have been here... :-)
A student began by telling me the story of some friends (by the way, she assures me that she knows the family!) - they went on holiday for a week abroad...leaving their pet hamster alone. On their return, they found out that the hamster had escaped from his cage...and there he was - stuck to the fridge! Apparently, the poor creature didn't have any food...in it's desperation it got out & searched for food...and found a small fridge magnet...ate it...and somehow became attached to the fridge...and couldn't get off, and died either from starvation or magnetic poisoning :-( I kid you not!!
I have searched the net, but found nothing to suggest that this is an Urban Legend...though one student told me he heard this story over the New Year on Czech TV...but heard it was true too...
Then another student told us how her family hamster also escaped, when she was younger...and someone was running the bath...They couldn't find the hamster until they went to turn the taps off & found the poor hamster - drowned in the bath :-(
I'd be interested to know if anyone has heard of the hamster with a magnetic personality!
