QUIRKY WORLD ... Thirsty bicycle thief helps himself to bottle of Tabasco
The 34-year-old was intoxicated but it was not clear why he went for the Tabasco to quench his thirst, police spokesman Jens Berger said. The man may have mistaken it for a tiny bottle of liqueur, he added.
Neighbours alerted police overnight after hearing the window smash. The man was arrested inside the restaurant. Berger said that, after telling police he had broken in because he was thirsty, the intruder said all he wanted to do was sleep — and was given the opportunity in a cell.
An Ohio woman has been arrested after calling 911 to complain about an order of Chinese food.
The 44-year-old called the emergency number to say the food she had ordered from a local restaurant was “not up to par for her liking”, police said.
After police determined the woman had no real emergency, she was arrested and charged with misuse of 911, a misdemeanour. She is scheduled to appear in court this week.
There’s loud talking, snoring and, of course, phones ringing. But theatre etiquette might have taken a turn for the bizarre on Broadway last week with a dead mobile phone.
A patron at the Tony Award-nominated play Hand to God climbed onstage just before the show began to try to recharge his phone in what looked like an outlet. Ushers at the Booth Theatre quickly converged, and the man was pulled off the stage.
A public announcement was made warning patrons to avoid any similar acts, and ushers were stationed near the offender in case anything else untoward occurred. He apparently got the message.
Actress Sarah Stiles tweeted: “#fullmoon or #idiot?” The attempt to recharge was, in the end, pointless: The onstage outlet was just a prop .
A Michigan woman says she’s no longer facing a misdemeanour after being arrested for failing to renew a licence for her dog.
Becky Rehr says she drove to the Kalamazoo County sheriff’s office on June 23 to prove she’d renewed the licence for the family’s 11-year-old dog, Dexter.
She was then arrested, fingerprinted, and held for three hours as her 14-year-old daughter waited in the car.
Rehr told the Kalamazoo Gazette the charge was dismissed at prosecutors’ request on Monday.
County animal control officials say Rehr was given numerous warnings after Dexter’s licence expired on March 1. The last phone call warned that a warrant would be requested unless she got a $10 (€9) licence by May 28.
A 15-year-old high school student visiting Boston’s Museum of Science uncovered a maths error in the golden ratio at a 34-year-old exhibit.
Virginia resident Joseph Rosenfeld was visiting the museum on a family trip when he saw something that appeared wrong with the equation. Joseph noticed minus signs where there should have been plus signs.
He left a message at the desk and later received a letter from the museum’s exhibit content developer, Alana Parkes, informing him the equation would be corrected. Ms Parkes wrote that the mistake had been there for a “very long time” without being noticed.
Joseph told Boston.com that spotting the error was exciting. He hopes to return to the state in future to attend the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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