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Cop pays fine for driver who brought cash from son’s piggy bank
A senior police inspector paid a driver’s fine after getting to know that the driver had brought money from his child’s piggy bank to free his vehicle.
Senior police inspector, Ajay Malviya, was moved when he saw the auto driver using his own son’s savings to pay the fine and decided to pay the amount out of his (inspector’s) pocket.
The auto driver had reportedly parked his vehicle in a no-parking zone on August 8, for which he was issued a fine of about 2,000 Rupee. The vehicle was seized as he could not pay the fine.
Unable to pay the fine himself, he brought coins from his son’s piggy bank to the police – however, the police refused to accept the coins, according to reports.
A teary-eyed driver approached the police and requested that his vehicle be returned to him.
Noticing the plastic bag of coins in his hand, the cop asked him what the trouble was. Upon getting to know about the driver’s financial situation, Mr Malviya returned the boy’s money and paid the fine himself. – ndtv.com
A message in a bottle launched by visitors to Newfoundland’s Bell Island was found washed up on an Irish beach nearly 13 years later, after apparently crossing the Atlantic Ocean.
Kate Gay said she was walking a Dingle Peninsula beach this week when she spotted the wine bottle with a sheet of paper inside.
Gay showed the bottle to members of Creative Ireland NeartnaMacharaí during a meeting at her house that evening, and they broke the bottle open.
The note, written by a couple named Brad and Anita, was dated Sept. 12, 2012. The letter described the couple’s day trip to Bell Island.
There was a phone number on the letter, but there was no answer when group members tried to call.
The Maharees Heritage and Conservation group posted photos of the bottleto social media on Monday, and within an hour group members were messaging with Anita.
Group member Martha Farrell said Anita reported that she and Brad had married in 2016 and are still together to this day. -upi.com
A Spanish woman who has been collecting egg cups for over 50 years earned a Guinness World Record when her collection was tallied at 15,485 items.
María José Fuster recruited two witnesses to help her tally her collection at a community center in her hometown of Campo, Spain.
Fuster’s collection includes multiple patterns, colors, designs and even novelty cups bearing the images of characters including Superman, Betty Boop and Garfield.
Fuster maintains two blogs related to her hobby — one to catalog each piece, and one to list the names of the people who have donated egg cups to her collection.
Some of her most prized egg cups, about 1,143 of them, are currently on display at a local museum.
-upi.com
