QUIRKY WORLD ... ‘Bathroom Bandit’ wanted for toilet tinkering
Dubbed the Bathroom Bandit, Columbus police say he enters various local establishments, visits the men’s restroom, disconnects the plumbing, and leaves with the stolen parts in his backpack.
A police department spokeswoman says the businesses won’t only have to replace the parts, but hire a plumber to repair the man’s toilet tinkering. She said that while his crimes may be unusual, they are still felonies.
The thief has struck a Kmart, several restaurants and the Mount Carmel West Hospital, all on the city’s west side.
He is described as a white male between 40 and 50 years old, 5’7” to 5’11” and 180 to 200 pounds. He drives a black Honda Accord.
An Ohio home that was pelted with eggs more than 100 times over a year will finally get a fresh finish thanks to a local painting company.
WEWS-TV reports Neubert Painting in Brook Park is planning to paint the Euclid home. Work was scheduled to start May 4 but was postponed because of the weather.
Jason Kozan was charged in March with vandalising the home between May 2014 and June 2015. He tells WEWS-TV he is not responsible for the vandalism.
Neubert Painting had offered to paint the home last summer as part of its Paint it Forward programme. The company was waiting for police approval because the case was under investigation. It was given the go-ahead last autumn.
A Tokyo court ruled that vagina-shaped objects created by a Japanese artist qualify as art, but found her guilty of obscenity for distributing digital data that could be used to make a three-dimensional recreation of her genitalia.
Tokyo District Court ordered Megumi Igarashi, also known as ‘Rokudenashiko’, or ‘good-for-nothing girl’, to pay a 400,000 yen fine for distributing the data, her lawyers said.
The court said a set of three plaster figures in the shape of her vagina, decorated and painted in bright colors, did not look like skin or immediately suggest female genitalia and therefore were not obscene, her lawyers said. However, the judges said the data, from a scan of her vagina, could be used with a three-dimensional printer to create a realistic shape that could sexually arouse viewers.
Igarashi welcomed the court’s description of her work as pop art, but appealed the ruling, saying its decision on the data was unacceptable.
The vagina figures were on display at a sex shop in Tokyo but were not for sale, according to Mayuko Nakamori, one of Igarashi’s defense lawyers.
Igarashi, who is also known for creating a vagina-shaped kayak, distributed computer discs containing the data as gifts to people who helped raise funds for the kayak project, her lawyers said.
Despite Japan’s lucrative pornography industry and tolerance of displays of scantily dressed women in ads and in magazines, its obscenity laws prohibit public displays of genitalia.
A man has been arrested after he destroyed a 126-year-old statue — after trying to take a selfie with it.
The sculpture, of a 16th-century Portuguese king, reportedly shattered after a man mounted it.
The man lifted himself onto the statue’s pedestal, causing it to crumble, and then attempted to flee — but was caught by police.
He will be brought before a judge at a later date.
The statue, which outside the Rossio railway station in central Lisbon, is of Dom Sebastiao. He was King of Portugal and the Algarves from June 1557 to August 1578. He disappeared during the battle of Alcácer Quibir in Morocco. His body was never found, but is presumed to have died at the age of 24.
Given he was childless, his death led indirectly to the end of the House of Aziz, which ruled the country from 1385–1581. However, his legend lived in on and he became known as ‘The Sleeping King’ — destined to return during Portugal’s darkest hour.
A sculpture of a kneeling Hitler by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan has sold for a record $17.2 m at a sale kicking off the weeklong New York auctions of modern, post-war and contemporary art at Christie’s and Sotheby’s.
Also selling at Christie’s ‘Bound to Fail’ themed auction Sunday night was Jeff Koons’ ‘One Ball Total Equilibrium Tank’. The ball suspended in a water tank has sold for $15.3m, just over its $12m estimate.
Both works came up for auction for the first time. There are 39 works in Christie’s sale.
Cattelan’s controversial sculpture ‘Him’ appears as a small child kneeling in prayer when approached from the rear. But from the front, the unmistakable likeness of Hitler appears.
The previous auction record for a work by Cattelan was $7.9m.
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