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A Montana man who pieced together the remnants of five $100 bills eaten by his one-eyed dog last year is sporting a $500 (€370) cheque he says he received this week from the US Department of the Treasury to replace the digested funds.
Wayne Klinkel said his dog Sundance, a golden retriever, sniffed the wad of bills out of a car space while waiting for Klinkel and his wife to return from lunch. Sundance had left nothing uneaten but one intact dollar bill and a small piece of a $100 note.
“He’s been notorious for eating paper products,” Klinkel said about Sundance. “I knew right away what had happened.”
For days after the December incident, Klinkel followed Sundance around in the snow, collecting his droppings in a plastic bag. He kept the bag of doggy mess frozen in the cold outside his house, and after weeks of hesitation, he went forward with his plan for retrieving the soiled cash by thawing the droppings in a bucket of soapy water.
Using an old metal mining screen and a hose, he separated the $100 bill pieces from the rest of the matter, then washed and began to assemble the tiny paper fragments.
Klinkel went to the US Department of Treasury’s Mutilated Currency Division, where he mailed the digested bills, along with an explanatory letter, on Apr 15.
Last Monday, he received a crisp $500 cheque in the post.
Students and a professor at a university in southern Hungary took off their clothes in class to protest the dress code introduced by the institution’s president.
The protest by around 10 male and female students and their speech instructor at the University of Kaposvar’s arts school was prompted by rules including a ban on dresses showing too much cleavage, miniskirts, excessive makeup, and flip-flops.
[NSFW] Hungary Students go to class in panties to protest against strict dress code- Textbooks become very important. pic.twitter.com/xadm9hBZqk
— Davis (@Datoism) October 4, 2013
A Scottish ornithologist has helped find a new species of owl.
Magnus Robb, 43, formerly from Edinburgh, and his team made their discovery in Oman in the Middle East. The species is a little bigger than the tawny owl and has been named the Omani Owl.
Tracked down in a remote mountain region of Oman, the owl was first noticed in March when it called while researchers were making sound recordings of another species. Mr Robb, a sound-recordist and author, had not heard anything like it before.
And here it is the stunning Omani Owl - Listen here to the sound recording of its discovery... http://t.co/8EJLa1qBTY pic.twitter.com/xZp540Yqdl
— The Sound Approach (@SoundApproachUK) October 4, 2013
A Chicago restaurant has cooked up a controversial burger of the month for October, garnishing it with an unconsecrated communion wafer and a red wine reduction sauce.
Kuma’s Corner names its hamburgers after heavy metal bands. For October, the restaurant chose to name the burger after the Swedish band Ghost. Members of the band dress in religious robes and wear skeleton face make-up.
It is in poor taste, said Jeff Young of New Orleans, who runs the blog Catholic Foodie.
New Kuma's Corner Ghost burger, I gotta try it!! #excited pic.twitter.com/mQlkFa8tlu
— Jason Fadziejewski (@Jases98) October 3, 2013
A University of Missouri graduate who used a dance video to quit her job with a Taiwanese company has got an offer to work on the website of a daytime talk show.
Marina Shifrin of Chicago became an internet sensation after her choreographed performance to Kanye West’s ‘Gone’ was posted on YouTube.
She was a guest on Queen Latifah’s talk show. The host asked Ms Shifrin if she wanted to work as a digital content producer on Latifah’s website.
Twelve sets of twins are living along two consecutive blocks in western Havana, ranging in age from newborns to senior citizens.
“We were the first ones,” said Fe Fernandez, 65, who wears her grey hair cropped. “It’s incredible!” said her identical sister, Esperanza, who shares the same features but has long black-dyed hair.
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