THE much-mocked mullet was honoured in an annual tournament which saw proud owners young and old go head to head.
Kids, teens and grown fellas showed off their business on top, party at the back haircuts — popular back in the 1980s — at the 2024 USA Championship.
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The much-mocked mullet was honoured in an annual tournament – pictured Griffey MetzCredit: The Mega Agency
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The competition saw proud owners young and old go head to head – pictured Kamden CunninghamCredit: The Mega Agency
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Kids, teens and grown fellas showed off their business on top, party at the back haircuts popular back in the 1980s – pictured Paul Edward Moore IVCredit: The Mega Agency
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Kane Grissinger at the 2024 USA ChampionshipCredit: The Mega Agency
Kamden Cunningham, six, took the kids’ title with his epic “Kammander”, which he grew after his older brother decided to chop his long curly hair.
He said: “My mom cried at the chunk of curls she found upstairs, but we could no longer leave my hair the way Karson ‘styled’ it.
“I wanted to leave my hair long, so we scoured the internet for options and I chose a photo where the hairstyle was a mullet.”
A mix of public votes and judges’ verdicts saw Todd Grubb scoop the adult contest with his “Flow Motion” style.
Both he and Kamden walked away with a $5,000 cash prize, belt and GoPro Camera.
Others showing off classic styles at the tournament — held at the Indiana State Fair in Indianapolis — included Ian Botham lookalike Paul Edward Moore IV.
Meanwhile, Matt Rollings’ luxuriant locks flowed on to the back of his rollneck as he quaffed red wine.
Other eyecatchers belonged to Griffey Metz, Calvin Johnson, Matthew Ray and Kane Grissinger.
Aussie mullet fans show off their madcap mops at this year’s Mulletfest
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Matt Rollings’ luxuriant locks flowed on to the back of his rollneck as he quaffed red wineCredit: The Mega Agency
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A mix of public votes and judges’ verdicts saw Todd Grubb scoop the adult contest with his ‘Flow Motion’ styleCredit: The Mega Agency
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Calvin Johnson’s efforts caught the eye of judgesCredit: The Mega Agency
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Matthew Ray’s long locks also stood out from the crowdCredit: The Mega Agency
A NINE-MONTH-OLD baby has been left with 60 per cent burns after a stranger doused him with scalding hot coffee in an unprovoked attack.
The innocent baby was at a picnic with his mum and friends in Brisbane, Australia when an unknown man approached the group.
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A baby has been left with 60 per cent burns after stranger doused him with scalding hot coffeeCredit: Seven
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The baby boy pictured moments before disasterCredit: Seven
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The alleged attacker was caught on CCTV fleeing the sceneCredit: QLD Police
The sick stranger poured a thermos of scalding hot coffee over the innocent baby before fleeing the scene – and remains on the run.
An image taken of the baby shows him sitting on a blanket playing with a toy car happily before disaster.
But then other pictures show him after the horrific incident – wrapped in bandages and in tears following the evil attack.
An off-duty nurse reportedly ran to the baby’s aid after she heard screams for her apartment nearby.
She heroically took the boy back to her home and kept him under a cold shower until paramedics arrived.
The nine-month-old was then rushed to Queensland Children’s Hospital where he tragically underwent emergency surgery.
The baby has suffered serious but non-life-threatening burns to horrifically 60 per cent of his body – including his face, upper body and arms.
Footage released by cops on Wednesday shows the alleged attacker running from the park.
He is described as age 30 to 40, proportionate build and tanned skin.
He’s caught on CCTV wearing a black hat, glasses, a shirt and shorts.
Massive police probe after horrified parent finds daughter, 10, dead with ‘throat slashed’ at home in Australia
The baby’s mum has been left in complete shock and horror after the incident.
She told 9News: “It’s torture and I’m supposed to be his protector and I couldn’t protect him.
“I’m just having flashbacks all the time about what happened and I wish that he had poured the coffee over me.
“I don’t know who would think it is okay to harm a little, innocent baby.”
Detective Inspector Paul Dalton confirmed that the injured baby was in a stable condition.
He called the attack “callous and cowardly” and “completely unprovoked.”
The detective said: “In 35 years of being a police officer, I’ve never come across a job where a child this young, in these circumstances, has been attacked. It shouldn’t happen.
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The nine-month-old was rushed to Queensland Children’s Hospital where he tragically underwent emergency surgeryCredit: Nine
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He has suffered serious but non-life-threatening burnsCredit: Nine
“This sort of behaviour will not be tolerated and we’ve thrown all our resources that we can possibly to it at this stage to hold this person accountable.”
Family friend Zara Mazza was at the picnic when the attack occurred and has set up a GoFundMe to help pay for the baby’s medical bills.
The page read: “This was a callous, random attack on my friends baby. He does not deserve this pain and suffering.
“[He] is currently in hospital and is suspected to stay for a while, whilst he is treated for severe burns.
“He has a long recovery ahead of him which will include further doctors, specialists, hospital appointments.”
Inspector Dalton confirmed that cops are working “around the clock” to find the perpetrator.
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The baby’s mum says she gets “flashbacks” to the horrendous incidentCredit: Nine
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A stranger poured a thermos of hot coffee over the babyCredit: Seven
A TEENAGE girl opened fire on her classmates with her dad’s shotgun during a science lesson.
She killed one student and injured five others before taking her own life after she stormed the school in Russia.
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A schoolgirl opened fire on her classmates todayCredit: East2West
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Alina, 14, is believed to be the shooterCredit: East2West
Alina A – believed to be 14 – had been late for class at her school, Gymnasium Number 5, in Bryansk.
It was reported that she then entered her biology lesson and began shooting with her dad’s hunting shotgun.
The shooter rampaged between classrooms with the gun which she had hidden inside a tub.
Police rushed to the scene and the girl is then reported to have taken her own life.
Cops are investigating the motive – and local media reports the girl had been “bullied”.
Horrific photos – which The Sun Online has chosen to publish – showed blood smeared across the floors of classrooms
Bodies were seen in the school – one of which was believed to be the shooter – alongside a shotgun.
Students told of the panic as they heard gunshots, barricading themselves inside classrooms.
One student told local media said: “We were just sitting in English and heard gunshots.
“We panicked, started closing windows, putting desks on top of each other.”
A second pupil added: “Everything was normal until the second lesson.
“The police came, the ambulance. That’s it.
“The girl carried a shotgun in her rucksack and shots were heard in the second lesson.”
One of the wounded boys named Timofei is believed to be in intensive care as doctors fight for his life.
He was shot in the chest, forearm and knee and lost a lot of blood – and is due to undergo emergency surgery.
Two other victims were in a “moderate” condition.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Bryansk region issued a statement saying: “Today the police received a report of a shooting at gymnasium No. 5 in the city of Bryansk.
“Police officers immediately went to the scene.
“According to preliminary information, one of the students brought a firearm into the gymnasium building and fired several times, as a result of which three people were injured.
“After this, the girl committed suicide.
“The motives and circumstances of the incident are being established.”
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The shooting reportedly took place at a school called Gymnasium Number 5, in Bryansk, RussiaCredit: East2West
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Students were evacuated and the school was surrounded by Russian national guards following the shootingCredit: East2West
THREE desperate mums of kidnapped kids dragged to Gaza wept yesterday as they saw their lost loved ones pictured in a moving appeal by The Sun.
Distraught Renana Jacob, Batsheva Yahalomi, and Hadas Kalderon asked to see our front page showing their youngsters among 32 child hostages snatched by Hamas.
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Distraught Renana Jacob, Batsheva Yahalomi, and Hadas KalderonCredit: Doug Seeburg
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Hadas begged for the safe return of her children Erez, 12, Sahar, 16, and their 53-year-old father OferCredit: Facebook
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Renana said: ‘The last words I heard my son say were, ‘Don’t take me. I’m too young’ – pictured Or, 16
Emotion poured out as each, in turn, spotted the smiling face of their children — now enduring hell in the terror group’s tunnel lair.
Renana, 56, smiled then sobbed as she pointed to Or, 16, and Yagel, 12.
The mum, who was on the phone to her youngsters as they were snatched, told The Sun: “The last words I heard my son say were, ‘Don’t take me. I’m too young’.
“No mother should ever have to endure what we’re going through now. We don’t sleep wondering if they are sleeping.
“We don’t eat because we think about whether they’re eating and we don’t even shower as we don’t know if they’re being allowed to wash.
“I just want my son to do what all 12-year-olds do at home again — ride his bike and play football and bother me with phone calls.
“But I’ve heard nothing from them for a month now and every minute that passes makes a wound which will take years to heal.
“If they come home, we know they will never be the same again but we have to hope that they will be able to resume some kind of life.”
Directly appealing to the monsters holding her kids amid Gaza’s bomb-blasted ruins, Renana added: “I hope they are held deep underground. And I’m hoping the people holding them, since they have mothers, are supposedly human.
“Maybe they have children of their own and they will see their hostages as children. I hope they will treat them like children but most of all we’re begging them to release them.
“Children and babies should not be part of this war game. They should not be a bargaining chip.”
As Israeli bombs continued to fall last night amid mounting civilian casualties, she added: “Families on both sides are suffering and Palestinians are also hostages of Hamas.”
Batsheva, 44, her husband Ohad, 49, son Eitan, 12, and two younger children aged ten and 18 months, were at home in the Nir Oz kibbutz a mile from Gaza on October 7.
The family’s life became a living hell when Hamas invaded and Ohad was shot in the leg as he tried to stop them.
She later found out he was believed to be in Gaza, grabbed while searching for his family.
Pointing out Manchester United fan Eitan’s face on our Page One, she said: “I begged them to take me and leave our children. They ignored me.
I want all the children home…I want my family back.
Hadas Kalderon, mum of Sahar & Erez
“And now I can’t bear the thought of my son in danger and alone.”
She added: “We don’t wake up in the morning because we don’t have nights. We have nightmares. Life is a continuous nightmare.”
Batsheva said she and her children were marched away at gunpoint and slung across motorbikes that roared off towards the Gaza Strip.
She and the younger kids fell off a bike and fled when the terrorists were surprised by two Israeli tanks.
She said: “Our motorbike fell and this was the last time I saw Eitan.
“I ran away through the fields because the roads were full of terrorists — hundreds of them shooting, burning, looting and stealing TVs.
“I can’t stand the thought that Eitan’s alone there now. It’s breaking me. We’re here in London because we want the world to hear us and understand children are no part of this and should be freed.”
Hadas, 56, endured the agony of having five family members kidnapped from the Nir Oz and Kissufim kibbutz communities.
No mother should endure what we are going through.
Renana said: “I’d urge the people tearing down the posters to think about what they would do if it was their own child.”
On behalf of the mums, she added: “We’d like to thank The Sun for your wonderful support. That front page passes on our message to the world.”
Each of the mums asked to take away a copy of The Sun with the Page One appeal for their loved ones.
23 killed in strikes
DAWN bombing raids killed 23 people in the Gaza cities of Khan Younis and Rafah, according to Palestinian health officials.
Images showed survivors being pulled from the rubble after air strikes had flattened homes as Israel hunts for the butchers of Hamas.
Ahmed Ayesh, who was among those rescued in Khan Younis, said: “This is the bravery of the so-called Israel — they show their might and power against civilians, babies, kids and the elderly.”
He spoke as rescuers used their bare hands to try to free a girl buried up to her waist in debris.
Israel says it is seeking to minimize civilian casualties and accuses Hamas of preventing Palestinians from leaving northern Gaza in order to use them as human shields instead.
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Renana said: ‘No mother should ever have to endure what we’re going through now’ – pictured Yagel, 12
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Batsheva said: ‘I begged them to take me and leave our children. They ignored me’ – pictured Eitan, 12Credit: Ian Whittaker
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The faces of the hostages are projected on the Old City wall in JerusalemCredit: AP
A MUM shares a chilling warning after her baby almost suffocates with the bowl sucked to her face.
Laci, from Texas, fed her daughter scrambled eggs from a silicone suction bowl, which prevents kids from throwing plates on the floor.
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A child fused the silicone bowl over her head and started suffocatingCredit: Facebook
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The terrified mother had to rush to rescue a rattled babyCredit: Facebook
But in just seconds, breakfast turned into a near-death experience for the baby.
As a child fused the bowl over her head and started suffocating, the terrified mother had to rush to remove it.
“She placed her head in her bowl and it suctioned immediately to her face perfectly. The bowl was slick and greasy from her eating. When I leaned over the island to pull it off, my hands slipped off the bowl
“With every scream she made, the bowl suctioned tighter and tighter. I ran around the island and was able to dig my fingers up under the bowl to break the seal and finally free her.”
The baby was “shaken up” after the accident and the mother “shudders” at the thought of her breathless even for a few seconds.
The mum-of-three dreads to think what could have happened if she was distracted washing the dishes or cleaning the kitchen just meters away.
Laci said: “Thank goodness she was only without air for a handful of seconds. This could have been terrible had I not been literally watching as it happened. And it happened so fast!”
Laci was snapping photographs of her baby enjoying the food when the chilling incident happened.
The camera caught the moment the screaming baby’s chest and throat caved as she was running out of breath.
Laci said it never occurred to her that the popular bowls could be so dangerous.
“Maybe I should have already considered this a possibility and maybe there are reports of this already that I was unaware of. I haven’t been a ‘new’ mum in many years, and my bigs didn’t have these bowls,” she said.
The silicone bowls have a suction cup on the bottom that sticks to the highchair and prevents kids from throwing dishes on the floor.
Laci said her daughter’s bowl didn’t adhere to the chair properly and was lifted off easily.
She took to Facebook to warn other parents of a potential hazard.
“I have been known to toss kitchen stuff to my babies to play with (wooden spoons, cups, Tupperware) while I’m washing dishes to keep them occupied since they like to hang down by my feet. What if I had tossed her HER bowl and I missed this happening?”
The mum added that she feels “ridiculously awful” about the whole incident and will stay away from suction bowls in the future.
Her post caught the attention of parents around the world who expressed their gratitude for the lifesaving advice.
One woman wrote: “Thank you for sharing, I can’t imagine how scared you must’ve been! I’m so glad she is okay! I am a new mum after nine years, also using these bowls for the first time. I would have never thought of that being a danger.”
Another user added: “I never would have guessed this in a million years. You’re a wonderful mama, and there’s no way you could have predicted this.”
A third replied: “Crazy! We’ve got the shallow, smaller diameter version of these. I’m definitely going to check them out a bit closer versus our kids. Thank you for the awareness and glad everything is OK.”
Most parents were just as shocked as Laci.
One mum wrote: “I have the exact same bowl and never could have imagined that happening – thanks for sharing.”
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Most parents around the world were shocked at the unknown hazard
