Quirky World: Sci-fi memorabilia to go on auction
Lots including Leonard Nimoy’s Spock costume from Star Trek and a dalek from Doctor Who will be offered for sale at the auction at London’s BFI Imax cinema on September 23.
Nimoy’s costume is expected to fetch £70,000, while a Stormtrooper helmet from The Empire Strikes Back could go for as much as £60,000.
The unusual size of the 3kg splenic tumour shocked staff at veterinary charity PDSA when it was removed from the dog, called Brunetta.
A Staffordshire bull terrier which developed a football-sized tumour has bounced back to health after successful surgery.
The 15-year-old was taken to the PDSA’s pet hospital in Stoke-on-Trent by her owner, Angela Ravenscroft, from Newcastle-under-Lyme, who thought her dog needed to go on a diet.
PDSA veterinary surgeon Laura Cartlidge, who removed the tumour, said: “When I started to remove the tumour everyone was shocked at just how large it was. It was the size of a small football and weighed over 3kg — one of the biggest tumours I’ve ever seen.
A would-be taxi driver who faked a letter from the New York Police Department in a bid to get a licence has been rumbled.
The driver, who has not been named, but is from Sandwell in the UK, sent the local council a letter claiming to be from the NYPD as evidence of good conduct. The letter was needed by the authority as the applicant had lived in the UK for less than five years.
But the taxi licensing office at Sandwell Council became suspicious and liaised with the NYPD, which confirmed the letter was a forgery. The driver was cautioned for fraud.
Animal control workers in Milwaukee have set non-lethal traps baited with human food in the hopes of capturing a lion-like animal that several people have reported seeing.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and WISN-TV said the traps were placed in the area of the last confirmed sighting of the animal.
Milwaukee Area Domestic Animal Control Commission director Karen Sparapani said it was likely the animal was an escaped or released exotic pet and that it might respond to human food. She said the creature would be sent to an animal sanctuary in Sharon if it was caught.
“Have you found Jesus?” That’s what employees at a Rhode Island soup kitchen are asking after a religious statue disappeared from the kitchen’s garden.
Pawtucket Soup Kitchen director Adrienne Marchetti said that she last saw the statue, which depicts Joseph carrying the baby Jesus, on July 20. Ms Marchetti said the kitchen staff will take back the statue, no questions asked, and even offer a free meal to the person who returns it.
A cat now named Lucky is one fortunate feline after managing to survive while trapped under water for at least an hour inside a sunken powerboat in Arizona.
“It’s really a miracle,” said Dive Time Recovery owner Jon Zuccala, who pulled the submerged boat from a sandbar. “I would have named her Eight because after all this, I’m sure she has used up one of her nine lives.”
Zuccala said he was called to hoist the boat to the shore from the lake’s bottom. The boat was then towed to his shop where a mechanic went to work “The cat just darted out when he opened up the hatch,” Zuccala said.
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