DAVID ADAMS looks at the odder side of life…
• Someone wanted to pass on the blessing at a US Walmart recently when they decided to pay off almost $US65,000 worth of items on layaway. The anonymous donor reportedly made a donation of $64,995.51 to pay for all the items being paid off in increments, management at the store in Bristol, Tennessee, confirmed. The manager said the person told them they had undertaken the action “in Christ’s name”.
• Chances are if you’re a golfer, you’ve hit a ball or two that was difficult – or even dangerous – to retrieve. But you’ve possibly never encountered the sort of hazard a pair of Florida golfers did recently when a ball landed on the tail of an alligator. Kyle Downes was playing golf with his brother at the Coral Oaks Golf Course last Sunday when the ball landed on the animal’s tail. Apparently determined to play through, Downes took a video showing his brother subsequently retrieving the ball from the tail of the gator, said to be a well-known local named Charlie. Charlie, apparently startled, thankfully headed for the water and not the golfers.
• A painting with an estimated value of $US340,000 was rescued after it was left at a German airport and then put in the items to be recycled. The painting, a surrealist work by Yves Tanguy, was left at Dusseldorf Airport by a businessman flying to Israel. Arriving in Tel Aviv, he realised he’d left the work behind and contacted the airport who were then unable to locate the painting. It was only after police tracked down the company that cleaned the airport that the painting was eventually located at the bottom of a waste paper recycling container. It was subsequently returned to a no doubt very relieved owner.
