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For information on submitting an obituary, please contact Reading Eagle by phone at 610-371-5018, or email at obituaries@readingeagle.com or fax at 610-371-5193. Most obituaries published in the Reading Eagle are submitted through funeral homes and cremation services, but we will accept submissions from families. Obituaries can be emailed to obituaries@readingeagle.com. In addition to the text of the obituary, any photographs that you wish to include can be attached to this email. Please put the text of the obituary in a Word document, a Google document or in the body of the email. The Reading Eagle also requires a way to verify the death, so please include either the phone number of the funeral home or cremation service that is in charge of the deceased's care or a photo of his/her death certificate. We also request that your full name, phone number and address are all included in this email. All payments by families must be made with a credit card. We will send a proof of the completed obituary before we require payment. The obituary cannot run, however, until we receive payment in full. Obituaries can be submitted for any future date, but they must be received no later than 3:00 p.m. the day prior to its running for it to be published. Please call the obituary desk, at 610-371-5018, for information on pricing. On Oct. 18 in Bangkok, Thailand, Pittaya Moolin, 51, was arrested as he conducted a delicate procedure in the backseat of his vintage Toyota Corolla, the Daily Mail reported. Moolin, also known as Chang Yai Modify, allegedly offered genital enhancement treatments to men in the region in spite of the fact that he is not licensed to perform such services. He promoted his business on TikTok, offering penis enlargement, circumcision and pearl implantations, saying he learned how to do the surgeries by watching social media videos. “I became interested in this kind of work, so I studied and developed it as a side hustle to supplement my income,” he said. Authorities found no sterilizing equipment in the makeshift operating theater, but they did find local anesthetics, surgical blades, needles and other equipment. He was charged with practicing medicine without registration and authorization, which could land him in prison for three years. Animal antics Ray Ray the cat clearly did not want to be left behind when his family left their home in Kittanning, Armstrong County, for Keene, N.H., on Sept. 26, The Washington Post reported. After driving about 100 miles, Tony Denardo, Ray Ray’s owner, stopped the family van for a bathroom break and discovered the 8-year-old cat clinging to the vehicle’s roof. “How did this cat stay on there?” wondered Tony’s wife, Margaret. “And he was completely unfazed.” The family believe Ray Ray lodged himself in between luggage strapped to the van’s top as they sped along the interstates. The Denardos leaned in, stopping at a pet store for a leash, harness, backpack and food for Ray Ray, and he joined the adventure. Tony carried him across the finish line at a marathon in Keene, and Ray Ray “seemed to really like Times Square at night,” Margaret said of their stop in New York City. She plans to write a children’s book about her pet’s adventure. Suspicions confirmed You may have heard that gold prices are at an all-time high, so it’s no wonder people are willing to go to extreme lengths to get their hands on it. Or, in this case, their private parts. Three women from Hong Kong were arrested in Japan on Oct. 20 for trying to smuggle about 8 kilograms of gold powder in their underwear, The Mainichi reported. The women were recruited by Masamori Nishimura, 34, they said, to conceal pouches of gold powder on a flight bound for Tokyo last summer. The precious metal was valued at about $650,000. The smugglers’ payment? Cash and travel expenses. The passing parade Kira Cousins, 22, of Airdrie, Scotland, allegedly misled family and friends for months about her pregnancy and the Oct. 10 birth of her daughter, Bonnie-Leigh Joyce, the Daily Star reported on Oct. 20. She wore a prosthetic baby bump and introduced a plastic Reborn doll as her newborn, even to the baby’s supposed dad. Cousins also claimed the baby girl had health problems including a heart defect, which was why she wouldn’t allow anyone to hold her. When her mom discovered the doll, Cousins messaged the would-be dad that Bonnie-Leigh had passed away, but the deception was soon revealed. “Everybody believed her,” said friend Neave McRobert. “We were all so happy. I feel totally used and drained.” Another friend said she had “noticed straight away that her bump wasn’t real. You could see the straps on her back holding it on.” Cousins declined to comment. Send your weird news items with subject line WEIRD NEWS to WeirdNewsTips@amuniversal.com.
