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Don’t call Aakash Ma- jumdar’s attraction to balloons a fetish. The 28-year-old resident of Mumbai, India, identifies as “objectum sexual,” meaning he’s attracted to inanimate objects — but not just sex- ually. News.com.au reported on Feb. 16 that Majumdar wakes up every morning and “makes out” with his balloons, which he sleeps beside.
Air Apparent: He’s Filled With Love For Balloons
“I like their presence and warmth, and share intimate feelings with my balloons and vice versa,” he said. “When you’re in love, you spend a lot of time togeth- er and accept all kinds of flaws.”
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Robert Powers, 37, man- aged to terrorize multiple citizens of Altoona, Pennsyl- vania, on Feb. 6, WTAJ-TV reported. He allegedly broke into four different homes, telling one woman as he covered her mouth, “I’m Bat- man.” At the next home, he choked a man, went through his pockets and held him hostage with a pocketknife.
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Of course, being balloons, they’ re vulnerable.
Next, he turned the man’s gas stove on and forced him into his truck, heading across town at speeds of more than 100 mph before crashing into a Jeep.
flight incident on June 29, could have turned out “very different,” CNN reported. On that day, a flying in- structor slumped over on a pilot’s shoulder as they flew a small plane above Lan- cashire, England. The pilot, who had asked the instructor to accompany him because of wind conditions that day, thought his cohort was “just pretending to take a nap” as a joke, but after landing the plane, he realized the instruc- tor had died. The report noted that the instructor likely “suf- fered a cardiac arrest as the aircraft took off.”
“One day while inflating a few balloons with a pump, a balloon got popped,” he said. “I cried for the loss and after that, I became more careful.”
Powers then kicked open the door of a nearby home and repeatedly asked, “Why’d you do this, Mom?” as he walked through the residence. Finally, at the last crime scene, police were able to subdue Powers, who ad- mitted he may have ingested meth or bath salts.
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