Quirky World: No place like home: $1m to return ruby slippers
The late actress wore the slippers in The Wizard Of Oz. Three other pairs still exist, including one on display at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington.
John Kelsch, executive director of the Judy Garland Museum in Grand Rapids, Minnesota, said the donor is from Arizona and is a huge fan of Garland and the 1939 movie. The reward offer requires the exact location of the slippers, which were stolen in August 2005, and the perpetrator’s name.
Tweet for help
A reveller at a music festival became an unlikely internet star after he tweeted that he had been packed into a tent bag and could not escape — however, it later turned out to be a prank.
Scott Johnston tweeted T in the Park organisers to say he was stuck as campsites at the Perthshire venue emptied. He said: “Hi i’m somewhere in green 7 someone has packed me into a tent bag for a joke and I can’t get out I don’t have much battery left.”
Police Scotland then tweeted: “Hi Scott please tweet us with more info if you can. We have officers with stewards in the area looking for you now.”
His initial tweet was shared more than 5,000 times.
Bungling burglar
A bungling distraction burglar was caught by police after introducing himself to the victim using his own name.
Simon Bedding preyed on the kindness of an elderly woman as a chance to raid her handbag of cash and goods while her back was turned, said Nottinghamshire Police. However, he used his first name on the woman’s doorstep in Worksop and she recounted the information to police when reporting the theft.
The verbal slip along with DNA evidence led to the 29-year-old being jailed for four and a half years at Nottingham Crown Court on Friday. At court, Bedding, of Andover Road in Nottingham, admitted burglary and fraud by false representation, police said.
Lowry reunited
Three works by LS Lowry are going on show together for the first time at the gallery that commissioned them more than half a century ago.
The oil paintings — showing three different scenes in York — were painted after the city’s art gallery commissioned him in 1952. The gallery chose to keep the work showing Clifford’s Tower, with the others bought by private collectors.
Now all three — and a preliminary sketch of the tower — will go on show at the gallery, which is reopening on August 1 after an £8m (€11.2m) redevelopment.
Monkey business
A small, “very spirited” monkey that escaped from its enclosure at Memphis Zoo has been recaptured.
Multiple media reports said zoo workers spotted Zimm, the three-year-old macaque, inside a drainage system on the eastern side of the zoo .
Memphis Zoo director of animal programmes Matt Thompson said the monkey was now safe and secure after an “all-zoo effort” to find her. The monkey’s escape resulted in a Twitter account which racked up more than 1,500 followers.
Cat back from Mars
A cat rescued from the engine of a pick-up truck after a 45km ride from Pennsylvania to New Jersey now has a new home.
The cat was given to Jennifer Blunts and her boyfriend, John Tegethoff, on Sunday. They will take the cat back to their home in Kunkletown, Pennsylvania.
The adoption ends a tale which began earlier this month, when the orange and white feline crawled into the vehicle’s engine compartment. Not knowing the cat was there, the driver travelled from East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, to the Mars Chocolate North America plant in Hackettstown, New Jersey, where it was discovered. The unhurt cat has been named Mars.
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