O/T stories 12/19
Billie
A family has been reunited with its dog nearly five years after it vanished.
Droopy, a beagle, was found wandering the streets of Birmingham and taken to
the RSPCA, which traced its owner, Stuart Stanford, by scanning a microchip
inserted in Droopy as a puppy.
Mr Stanford, 27, said Droopy disappeared from his family's back garden 10 miles
away in Tipton in May 1998.
"When we got the phone call telling us she had been found it was such a shock.
I don't know where she was for the past five years. I wish she could talk and
tell us."
Suzanne Murphy, a veterinary nurse, said the dog was in good condition and
appeared to have been well looked after.
She said: "We were all very excited here. We often have reunions, but never
after such a long time. I didn't think she would recognise her old owners, but
she definitely did. She was very excited."
The reunion showed how important it was for owners to get a microchip inserted
into pets, Miss Murphy said. FOR PHOTO:
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WEIRD BUT TRUE
Bill Hoffmann, NY Post wires
--Lucky the dog has been hailed a hero - for sinking his teeth into Anna
Malone’s big toe. An early-morning blaze at Anna’s home in Whiting, Iowa,
spurred her pet into action, rousing her from a sound sleep by biting her foot.
Anna quickly woke up the rest of her family and they fled the flame-filled
residence with just seconds to spare.
--Henry Drakeford is grateful that one man’s trash is another man’s
treasure - an old watercolor painting he plucked off a scrap heap turned out to
be worth up to $12,000. The painting turned out to be "Autumn Landscape," a
well-known watercolor from 1899 by Jasper Francis Cropsey. Drakeford, an art
teacher in Augusta, Ga., said: "People just don’t know what they’ve got."
--Atheists take note: Flames roared through a Detroit home and destroyed
everything - except an oil painting of Jesus. "It’s quite amazing. It was
hanging above a couch. The couch was all black, the wall behind the painting
was black," said homeowner Pauline Mallory. She and neighbors believe the
incident was a miracle.
--Bless me father, I’ll have a whiskey and a beer. That’s the order you
might hear at the Courtyard Pub in the Irish town of Ferns in County Wexford,
where a priest has been moonlighting as a bartender. The double life of Father
James Fitzpatrick emerged when he was assaulted by a customer he was trying to
throw out of the bar. Church officials won’t comment on the unusual
arrangement, but said they were aware of it.
--Men are having a hell of a time getting a drink in Teenek, Mexico - because
their wives keep chasing the beer trucks away. The women - sick of their
spouses staggering home drunk - shout "Get out! Get out!" when drivers try to
make deliveries. "A lot of men are not happy with this," said organizer
Marcelina Martinez. "They seem sad. But at least now they spend time with their
families. They didn’t want to listen to us so we had to get angry."
"STUPIDITY IS NOT A HANDICAP. Park elsewhere!"
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