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THE CASE OF THE MISSING COMICS.
"£5,000 reward offered to help find stolen Laurel and Hardy statues"
As James Finlayson might say -- "Doooh!" Stan and Ollie are missing once again from the front yard of Lesley and Peter Haylett, who live in the east London suburb of Romford. The couple originally commissioned the statues of the slapstick duo from a novelty company that makes unicorns and other whimsical creatures for carousels several years ago to place in their front yard. The statues have been nabbed several times in the past five years, as a prank, and were eventually returned. But this time the Romford couple decided to take things up a notch. They asked a friend of theirs, a wealthy contractor, to donate reward money for the return of skinny Stan and fat Ollie. The contractor, Dean Floyd, agreed, and sleuths in the area are now on the lookout for kidnap clues in order to collect the five-thousand pound reward (that's over seven-thousand dollars USA.) If you've got a hot tip, mate, call the Metropolitan Police Service at 101 (the British equivalent of 911.) Here's another nice mess . . .
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Tennis superstar Naomi Osaka breaks down in tears after questioned by journalist.
"Tennis superstar Naomi Osaka left crying during the Western and Southern Open press conference in Cincinnati yesterday, when a local journalist asked her why a tennis player of her calibre who has the favor of the media does not like press conferences."
The reporter in question, who works for the Cincinnati Enquirer, would not return phone calls or reply to emails asking him to expand on the motivation behind his question, which Osaka's manager labeled as "childish and bullying."
The editorial board of the Cincinnati Enquirer issued a statement about the incident earlier this morning: "We recognize that a public figure has felt humiliated by one of our reporting staff, but we believe that journalists have the right to ask relevant and searching questions without any censorship."
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Texas woman charged with hitting man in wheelchair with can of food, then pushing him out.
A disabled Wichita Falls man told police yesterday he felt sorry for a homeless woman who often passed by his house on the way to the food bank. He offered her a place to stay in his home in return, he claimed, for some light housework. But when the women moved her meager belongings into his house she claims he asked her to become a sex worker. At which point Angela Black allegedly beat the man (whose name police refused to release) on and about the head with a can of spinach and pushed the man in his wheelchair out the front door onto his front porch and left him there overnight, refusing to unlock the door for him until the next morning.
Black has been charged with assault and battery on a disabled person. No word on whether the man, who was briefly hospitalized, will face any charges.
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