What is it about class rings that everyone's so keen to be rid of them?
Pennsylvania woman reunited with lost cat after 8 years
A Pennsylvania woman whose cat ran away from home eight years ago was reunited with her long-lost pet when she discovered the feline was up for adoption at a local cat cafe.
Kristen Williams said Snickerdoodle, a tortoiseshell cat, ran away from her home in Watsontown about eight years ago, and despite searching and calling around to local shelters, she was never able to locate her missing pet. ...
Williams said she was on Facebook a couple weeks ago when her attention was grabbed by a post from the Scratching Post Cat Cafe in Lewisburg.
The post included a photo of a for-adoption cat that Williams immediately recognized as her long-lost Snickerdoodle.
The cat, now named Maria, bore all the same markings as the cat in Williams' photos, as well as sharing her old pet's obsession with hanging out in sinks.
Williams said she hadn't been looking to adopt a cat at the time, but she couldn't resist the opportunity to bring her long-lost pet home. ...
Williams said Maria has already laid claim to the kitchen sink in her home.
Returned library book could be up to 100 years overdue
Officials at an Ontario library said a book recently dropped into its return bin is believed to be up to 100 years overdue.
The Fergus Library said a copy of Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens was recently dropped into the book return bin by an anonymous person. ...
Library officials said they don't have records of the book, but it bears a Fergus Library name plate inside the cover, indicating it might have been from the facility's original collection when it opened in the 1900s.
Officials said they aren't sure of when the book was last checked out.
"We're guessing from 100 to maybe 50 years ago," chief librarian Rebecca Hine told CTV News. ...
Officials said they have no intention of trying to find the person who checked the book out to charge fees. ...
But Stevie, partner Sarah Moonie, 45, and his three children are now ‘over the moon’ after Kavik – now 10-years-old – turned up almost 300 miles away in Birmingham.
Stevie received a phone call on Tuesday from Lost Dogs Scotland saying an animal matching Kavik’s description was being held at a dog shelter in the city.
‘I jumped in the car in the morning and drove all the way to Birmingham still not sure if it was my boy.
‘But when I got there I knew instantly it was him and I just burst into tears.
‘He came running over to me and started licking me like he’d seen me just yesterday. It was a very emotional reunion.
Kavik was found in an undernourished state looking for food at a pet store in Birmingham and was taken to the dog home after staff took pity on him.
Couple finds more than 66 bottles of Prohibition-era whiskey hidden in the walls of their New York home
When a New York couple was told their over 100-year-old home was built by a notorious bootlegger, they passed it off as small town legend.
But during a recent home renovation, the couple discovered something that revealed the legend could be true.
In early October, Nick Drummond and Patrick Bakker said they found more than 66 bottles of whiskey from the Prohibition-era hidden within the walls and floorboards of their home, which was built in 1915. ...
Drummond, a designer and historic preservationist, told CNN he was removing outside skirting along the bottom of the mudroom attached to the house when a mysterious package fell out. ...
"I'm like holy crap. This is like a whiskey stash. And this is like, all of a sudden, the whole story of the bootlegger." ...
Drummond went on to find more packages of smuggled whiskey under the floorboards after entering the mudroom through a uncovered hatch inside the floor. He said the couple continues to find more bottles. ...
The liquor is a brand of Scottish whiskey labeled Old Smuggler Gaelic whiskey, which is still made today. Each bottle was wrapped in tissue paper and straw and bundled in a package of six, said Drummond. ...
The couple plans to leave the bottles they found empty or evaporated preserved in the home -- and sell the bottles they found full. The full bottles are estimated at a value of around $1,000 each, said Drummond. ...
Ontario man reunited with wallet lost 54 years earlier
An Ontario, Canada, man who lost his wallet 54 years ago had the item returned to him after another man found it in an old couch.
Darcy Major, 86, of Port Dover, said his wallet went missing in 1966, and he never found out what happened to it until Christopher Camacho got in touch with his children. ...
Camacho found the wallet in an old couch and got Major's name from the documents inside, which included a driver's license, an old check and a dog license.
Camacho wrote ... on Facebook that he had fished the wallet out of an old couch and was trying to find its owner.
Commenters on the post helped Camacho get in touch with Major's children, who informed their father that his wallet was found.
"It was unreal, where's it been for all those years," Major told the Simcoe Reformer. "It must have been a good couch."
Major said he was grateful to Camacho for tracking him down.
"It's quite a thrill, even though everything is outdated," Major said. "There's honest people out there to return it. He could've put it in the garbage, and it's so nice that there's people like that."
Crew digs through tons of trash to find Indiana man’s wallet
A northern Indiana man whose cash-filled wallet was accidentally thrown out got it back last week after a crew waded through tons of trash and found it, wet and smelly, near the bottom.
Logansport resident Robert Nolte said his wallet ended up in the trash Thursday when he asked a friend to throw out a pair of green camouflage pants that were covered in white paint. After his trash was hauled away, Nolte realized his wallet was missing and that it had been in the discarded pants.
At his wife’s urging, he called a city code enforcement officer, Johnny Quinones, and explained the situation. ...
“I originally told the caller that there would be no way to find it,” Quinones told the (Logansport) Pharos-Tribune. ...
Quinones nonetheless worked with a crew from trash-hauler Republic Services to search for the pants after determining which driver had collected Nolte’s trash. They made their way through 9 tons (8 metric tons) of garbage dumped onto a concrete slab, looking for the pants, which Nolte’s friend had rolled up and placed, unbagged, on top of Nolte’s trash.
They eventually discovered the pants at the bottom of the trash pile, with the cash-filled wallet still in one of its pockets. Quinones thanked Republic Services for allowing the search then summoned Nolte, turning the wallet over to him. ...
“I took out a $100 bill to give to Johnny for finding my wallet. He refused it. Johnny, being the nice guy that he is, wouldn’t take the money,” Nolte said. “He just said, ‘God will do me better down the road.’”
So the guy refuse(d) a tip?
Yep - he chose improved karma later over cash in hand now.
Valuable painting left behind at airport found in the paper recycling
A painting worth about $340,000 was forgotten at a German airport by a businessman flying to Israel, and police rescued the misplaced artwork from the recycling.
Dusseldorf Police said the businessman arrived in Tel Aviv after his Nov. 27 flight and discovered the painting, a surrealist work by Yves Tanguy, had been left behind at the Dusseldorf Airport. ...
The businessman contacted the airport, but officials were unable to locate the flat cardboard box containing the painting.
The man's nephew, who lives in Belgium, traveled to Dusseldorf to join in the search and sought help from the local police.
Police contacted the cleaning company contracted by the airport and an investigator ended up searching through the waste paper recycling with a company manager.
The painting was found at the bottom of the recycling container. It was returned Wednesday to the businessman who had misplaced it.
Lost cat found one year later, 75 miles away
A British woman whose cat went missing in November 2019 was reunited with her pet more than a year later when the feline turned up 75 miles away.
Sybil Gillatt, 70, of Doncaster, England, said her long-haired black cat, Laddo, went missing from her home in November 2019. ...
Gillatt said she searched for Laddo and put up posters bearing his pictures, but there was no sign of her beloved cat.
It turned out Laddo had turned up in April in the garden of Karen Rice, who lives 75 miles away in Snodgrass. ...
Rice said she had borrowed a microchip scanner to check the status of the chips in her own cats, and she decided to try it on the cat living in her garden.
"I couldn't believe it when he was chipped. I contacted my local Cats Protection branch, gave them the chip number and the next day they phoned to tell me that the owner had been traced. She was over the moon that her cat had been found," Rice said. ...
Don't be concerned, Enola was just engaging in trash talk.....I tried to make a pun, but it was a rubbish attempt.
Chihuahua dog missing for 5 years in California is found
A Chihuahua dog named Sweet-Pea who went missing five years ago in Southern California has been found and is back home.
The tiny dog was reunited with her owner on thanks to microchip identification ...
Sweet-Pea went missing in the city of Compton in 2015. The Inland Valley Humane Society found her about 30 miles (48 kilometers) away in the community of Covina.
Sweet-Pea appeared to have been well-cared for during her long absence, KNBC-TV reported. There were no immediate details disclosed about where the dog stayed while away from her owner. ...
Lost engagement ring found in mall parking lot six months later
A shiny object a man spotted in the snow near his car in the parking lot of a Saskatchewan mall turned out to be a woman's engagement ring that had been lost for six months.
Steven Zoerb said he went back to his car outside the South Hill Mall in Prince Albert on Sunday morning because he forgot his mask. ...
"When I went to open the door of my car, out of the corner of my eye I caught this sort of sparkle ..."
The object turned out to be a diamond ring, and Zoerb posted photos of the item on Facebook in the hopes of attracting the owner's attention.
The post was shared by a friend of Alison Cameron, who immediately recognized it as her ring.
Cameron said she had lost track of the ring, which she received upon her engagement on Christmas Day 2013, about six months earlier, and two months after that she scoured her house for the missing object and determined it had been lost. ...
World War I-era cannon found buried under Canadian baseball field
Construction crews digging up a baseball field in Ontario made a surprising discovery -- a World War I-era German cannon buried under the pitcher's mound.
Officials in Amherstburg said crews were digging up the ballpark, which is to become the site of a new public school, on Monday when they discovered the forgotten cannon that was formerly on display at Centennial Park. ...
City officials said the cannon was brought to the town in 1922 and was displayed alongside a cenotaph at General Amherst High School. The cenotaph was moved to Centennial Park in 1971 to make way for an expansion to the school and the cannon, which was determined to be in poor condition, was buried underneath the monument.
The cannon was forgotten when the cenotaph was moved again in the 1980s and the area was turned into a baseball field with the gun still buried underneath. ...