Odd News
Goat breaks into police car, eats paperwork
A police officer in the American state of Georgia recently received a surprise visitor – a goat inside her car.
The deputy from Douglas County Sheriff’s Office found herself in the bizarre situation after she went to a residence to serve some civil papers on Friday – and came back to find the animal inside her car, happily munching away on the paperwork kept there.
According to Douglas County Sheriff’s Office, the deputy explained that “due to the number of houses she visits daily, she routinely leaves her vehicle’s door open because she has had to retreat on a number of occasions from vicious dogs”.
On Friday, she had been doing her job as usual when the day received an unexpected twist. Body camera footage showed the cop walking back to her car from a residence and finding a goat inside.
The footage showed her trying to shoo the goat away and attempting to retrieve the papers it was chewing.
At one point, she was even knocked to the ground, although the police department said she did not suffer any injuries.
“At the end of the day we all got a little laugh out of it and we hope you do as well!” the Police Department wrote while sharing the video on Facebook.
“It got to eat the warrant for my arrest fast before the police comes back. Hahaha,” one person said.
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
