Quirky World ... Work, relaxation in the pipeline for lottery winner
Anthony Perosi, 56, left his March 14 ticket pinned to the wall behind a basement pipe for six weeks.
A friend had told him where the winning ticket had been purchased, but she thought a teacher had won. So he took his time checking the numbers, which he’d chosen randomly.
“When I saw all the numbers matched up, I panicked. I immediately called my son and asked him to come over right away.”
Anthony Perosi III did what he was told.
“I couldn’t believe what I was seeing,” said the 27-year-old. “I checked the numbers on my phone and it has been surreal ever since.”
The cash value of the ticket came to $88.5m. The father decided to share his winnings with his son, so dad gets a net lump sum of $38.6m after required withholdings, and son pockets $16.5m.
“I honestly don’t know what my plans are right now,” said the elder Perosi. “I want to continue to work, but will be able to relax a little more and not have any worries financially.”
Scientists had some time getting the remarkable fossil of a dinosaur they dubbed “Hellboy” out of the hard limestone along a Canadian river bank where it was entombed for 68m years, but the diabolic task proved gratifying.
The scientists yesterday described one of the most unique horned dinosaurs ever discovered, a beast boasting an exotic set of facial horns and spines around the edge of the bony frill at the back its skull.
They named it Regaliceratops peterhewsi, meaning “royal horned face” and honouring geologist Peter Hews, who found it. But they nicknamed it Hellboy because its stubby horns above the eyes resembled the comic-book character of the same name and because of the hellish time they had in extricating it from what they called “evil hard rock”.
A 91-year-old man who always wanted to know what it is like to smash through a garage door can now tick the activity off his bucket list.
Walter Thomas, of Woodstock, Chicago, used a donated SUV to back into the door of a garage which was due to be torn down.
Asked to describe the experience, he said: “I hit the gas, squealed the tires and bang — we went through the door.” The nonagenarian said he does not know what else he could do to top that.
There is a new Chinese restaurant in Rochester, New York. The name? I Don’t Know.
I Don’t Know opened recently and owner Jessie Dong said she came up with the unusual name because whenever she would ask her three children what they wanted to eat, their response would be: “I don’t know.”
Ms Dong said when it came time to name the new restaurant, her family didn’t know that either, hence the name I Don’t Know.
A 107-stone bull (680kg) that fell into a 3.6m-deep well has been freed after taking a nap during the rescue effort.
Abel Ambrosio Lopez said the bull fell through rotten wood that was covering a well on his property in Fairburn, south of Atlanta, in the US. Mr Lopez says he assumed the three-year-old bull named Boy jumped a fence and took off, and was surprised to find it lying in the well.
Crews reportedly used a digger to make a bigger hole so the animal could walk out. But the bull decided to take a nap and did not immediately leave once he was able to. Mr Lopez has said the bull seems to be OK.
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