QUIRKY WORLD ... US deport man linked to Star Wars toy death
US immigration officials said 34-year-old Pablo Christian Larumbe Rojas was turned over to authorities in Mexico. Federal officials say Carlos Palomares Maldonado owed criminal associates of Rojas about $3,000 (€2,200) and offered to pay by trading his collection of Star Wars figures.
Authorities say Maldonado disappeared after going to Rojas’s home and his body was later found in the possession of several people who implicated Rojas.
An example of ‘edible art’ is proof of what top chefs already know — a culinary masterpiece has to look the part as well as taste delicious.
Psychologists found that a salad tasted better when arranged to resemble a work by the Russian artist Wassily Kandinsky. The ‘abstract plating’ was inspired by Kandisky’s ‘Painting Number 201’.
In tests, 60 volunteers aged 18 to 58 also said they would be willing to pay more for the Kandinsky salad. Writing in the journal Flavour, the team led by Charles Spence, from Oxford University’s Department of Experimental Psychology, concluded that “eating the food led to an increase in ratings of the tastiness of the food in the case of the art-inspired dish”.
A woman died after a massive hoard of belongings she had accumulated over many years plunged through her floor into the basement.
Police went to the home of 66-year-old Beverly Mitchell in Cheshire, Connecticut, after a postal worker reported that her mail was piling up. Officers did not initially find anyone and thought Ms Mitchell was not home. It was only when they went back the following day that they realised the floor had collapsed.
Her body was found a day later as crews used a mechanical digger to clear the debris. Building officials are determining whether the home needs to be torn down.
A Roman wine dipper and a 7th century coin are among the hundreds of objects handed in as treasure in Scotland in the past year.
A total of 265 people reported objects to the Treasure Trove Unit between April 1 2013 and March 31 this year.
The items found included a gold Merovingian tremissis coin at Coldstream in the Borders. Such coins were in use across England, but this was the first of its type to be located north of the border. Other finds included a medieval silver crucifix, and a 16th-century gold finger ring decorated with white enamel.
A US appeal court has ruled that a Los Angeles law which bars people from living in parked vehicles is unconstitutional.
The 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the decision of a lower court judge.
The ruling came in a case brought on behalf of four people who were cited and arrested in the Venice area by police who concluded that the numerous belongings in their motor homes and cars meant they were violating the law.
A tiny 7-month-old Maltese puppy owned by Bonnie and Brad Gruening likes to retrieve. On Monday, Lady Bunny came home with an unexpected prize — a wallet its owner didn’t know was lost.
The puppy found and brought home a wallet belonging to Rudy Vonda, a sanitation worker with Pacific Waste Management.
“I didn’t even know my wallet was missing. I checked my back pocket to make sure,” Vonda said, adding that he expected the dog to a Labrador or German Shepherd, but the puppy’s head was barely bigger than his wallet.
“It was really neat because we were able to get it back to the owner,” Bonnie said.
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