QUIRKY WORLD... Postal service helps to bring home the bacon
Bacon enthusiasts can now receive their favourite meat by post.
The home-delivery service allows customers to order packs of rashers which arrive in vacuum-packed, insulated envelopes that feature a cooling gel and can be slipped through the letterbox.
The scheme was set up by gourmet bacon producer Charlie Pyper, 36, from Great Hormead, Hertfordshire.
There is even an option of adding a coating of natural repellent to the package to stop dogs from pouncing on the meat as it hits the doormat, reports the Hertfordshire Mercury. Hidden Cash craze hits New York’s Central Park
USA: Guided by a few clues from Twitter, Stephanie Culff hailed a cab to Central Park and started searching for money planted there by Hidden Cash, the scavenger hunt craze that made its New York debut over the weekend.
Culff arrived before the masses of cash-seekers and walked away with an envelope containing a $50 bill (€37) and a silver dollar she said was worth $23. Both, she said, would go to her dad for Father’s Day. “We were looking forward to the adventure,” she said. “We actually didn’t expect to win.”
Dozens of other New Yorkers found the same prizes hidden in Central Park in Manhattan and Prospect Park in Brooklyn — all part of a movement born last week in San Francisco as a “social experiment for good”.
Jason Buzi, a California real estate investor who said he is one of several people behind Hidden Cash, described the giveaways as a “fun way to give back to the community.” He encouraged people who find cash to “pay it forward.”
So far, he said, many have responded by spending the cash on coffee, groceries or fuel for others or by helping the homeless and charities.
A Connecticut woman became concerned when she heard someone calling “Daddy” repeatedly near a school.
But when she began looking for a child, she instead found a large green parrot up in a tree.
Fairfield police lieutenant James Perez says the fire department used a long pole to remove the bird from the tree at Holland Hill School. The parrot then flew onto a bamboo stand. Firefighters chased it out and an animal control officer caught it in a net and brought it to a shelter.
The bird was found about one mile from its home. It was later reunited with its owner.
A man trying to row across the Atlantic from New York to a Scottish island was rescued during a storm on Saturday by a US Coast Guard team who plucked him from choppy waters off Long Island.
Scotsman Niall Iain Macdonald, 39, was about 50 nautical miles from the coast when he sent out a distress call by satellite phone saying he had been injured.
Coast Guard officials said the pilot of one of their helicopters deployed to reach Macdonald was forced to turn back by a lightning storm, but a rescue boat carrying paramedics was able to navigate turbulent waters to reach Macdonald in his 24ft rowboat.
“He was being thrown around like a rag doll,” Lieutenant James Provost, the captain of the Coast Guard rescue boat, said. Macdonald was found bloodied with a cut on his head, Provost said.
Macdonald was planning to spend three months rowing home to Stornaway on the Isle of Lewis to raise money for the Scottish Association for Mental Health.
A prisoner who absconded from an open prison more than two months ago has been arrested in a pub.
Kevin Brown, 54, who went missing from HMP Ford in West Sussex on April 10, was held by Avon and Somerset officers in the Clifton area of Bristol, Sussex Police said.
Brown was due to appear before magistrates today.
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