QUIRKY WORLD... Medical rep skinned over €250k theft
Gary Dudek of Wallingford, was arrested and charged with theft, receiving stolen property, and tampering with records.
Authorities say he worked until September as a sales representative for a regenerative medicine firm, managing accounts for the bioscience department of Mercy Philadelphia Hospital.
In that role, he was allowed to order the skin grafts whenever he wanted. Officials said the hospital only needed a few grafts at a time. Dudek, however, ordered more than 200 without authorisation that the hospital never received.
The Chicago-area home where Ferris Bueller’s friend Cameron famously “killed” his father’s prized Ferrari finally has a new owner.
Crain’s Chicago Business reports that the modernist home in Highland Park sold on Thursday for $1.06m (€777,000).
Craig Hogan, a regional director at Coldwell Banker Previews, wouldn’t say who bought the four-bedroom, steel-and-glass house built on the edge of a wooded ravine.
The sleek house, built in 1953 by Mies van der Rohe-protege A James Speyer, was first put on the market in 2009 for $2.3m.
It featured in John Hughes’s 1986 film Ferris Bueller’s Day Off as the home of Cameron Frye, played by Alan Ruck.
After the Ferrari crashes through the glass into the ravine, Ferris tells Cameron: “You killed the car.”
Supermarket Asda has defended a “wearable England flag” it has launched for the World Cup after claims it resembles a Ku Klux Klan outfit.
The St George’s Cross, with the word ‘England’ on the red cross, features a hood which Asda said was to allow fans to wear it and stay dry.
But some fans took to Twitter to point out what they believed were similarities with the hoods worn by the racist US organisation.
Biologists are performing surgery on scores of endangered fish in New York’s Hudson River.
Shortnose sturgeon and Atlantic sturgeon are being caught in nets, put under anaesthetic, and subjected to small incisions so transmitters can be inserted into their body cavities.
The idea is to track the movements of the fish and see how they are affected by the construction of a huge bridge spanning the river. It’s hoped the information can boost the species’ long-term prospects.
A woman who calls herself the “Weed Fairy” distributed free nuggets of marijuana to people in Seattle, taping the free pot on fliers around a city neighbourhood.
Yeni Sleidi, 23, says she does it to amuse people and to give them a break from stress.
Officials in Alabama are investigating a series of thefts involving metal urinal components from restaurant bathrooms.
Jefferson County sheriff’s spokesman Randy Christian said authorities have been told of a man walking into men’s rooms and stealing flush valves and supply lines from urinals.
Christian said the pipes were not made of copper and would have little value if a thief tried selling them as scrap metal.
Two of the last passengers of the original Edinburgh trams have recreated their journey to launch the new service.
Transport leaders and invited guests boarded a tram at York Place ahead of the first batch of paying customers this weekend. Alastair Byres and Norman Steven used to take the old service to school every day and were on board the final journey of the original trams in November 1956.
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