Lost & Found

[hunck]

Dog that went missing in California is found a year later – in Kansas​

No one knows how Zeppelin, a three-year-old German shepherd mix, made the journey across a giant swathe of the United States, but he is alive and well and is now heading home for Christmas, NPR reported.

Zeppellin went missing from his home in West Sacramento in October, 2021, his owner, Sandra O’Neill, told the public radio network. The family suspected that he had befriended workers on a local construction site and someone had decided to keep him.

“I have no proof but I think somebody down there fell in love with him and took him home,” O’Neill said.

But after 14 months of no news, a call out of the blue came from Louisburg, Kansas, where a woman had found Zeppelin in her garden and taken him to a vet who had used the microchip under his skin to trace him to his family back on America’s Pacific coast.

Zeppelin has now become a minor media celebrity and a press conference is planned for his arrival back in California after a road trip by car.

There, another surprise waits for him. Just a few weeks before going missing, Zeppelin had fathered a litter of puppies. Two of them were kept by his family and will be waiting for their doggy dad’s return.

 

[EnolaGaia]

Once the weather turned cold a 16-foot-long albino python became lethargic enough to capture in a Texas neighborhood where it had been prowling since being stolen last summer.

16-foot albino python found after months on the loose in Texas

Animal rescuers in Texas said a 16-foot albino python was reunited with its owner after being lost for more than five months.

The Austin Animal Center said in a Facebook post that the snake's owner, from the Dallas area, said the albino reticulated python, named Snow, was in a tote that was stolen from his car during a break-in while he was visiting Austin several months ago. ...

The AAC said it received a call from a group of Austin residents this week reporting they had captured the 16-foot snake.

"Due to the temperatures the snake was lethargic enough that a couple of residents were able to catch it and keep it in their garage," the post said.

The neighbors said the snake had been wandering their neighborhood since July. ...

SOURCE: https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2022/12/23/Austin-Animal-Center-reticulated-python/8051671812025/

 

[hunck]

UK man missing and presumed dead for 10 years turns up in French hospital​

Nicholas went hitchhiking around France and Spain in the mid-2000s after losing his job as a joiner and leaving his hometown of Glasgow behind.

He had soon drifted out of all contact and his mum believes he wound up sleeping rough on the streets of Paris for a time.

She reported him missing in 2009 and last saw him a year later after being informed by the British Consulate he was in a French hospital.

After receiving no word in 10 years even through the pandemic, Joyce assumed the worst and even ‘grieved for him’.

But on December 19 another call arrived from a hospital in the south of France informing her that Nicholas was there.

‘I’d resigned myself to the fact that he had died. I really thought that and I think everybody thought the same.’

Despite winding up in hospital, his family said he looks healthy after speaking to him over video call.

Nicholas vanished after originally arranging to come home in 2010 but his family were agonised when he didn’t get on the plane.

 

[hunck]

One of FBI's most-wanted found working as yoga teacher in Mexico after 12 year search

Jorge Rueda Landeros, now known as León Ferrara, was seized earlier this month in Mexico's western city of Guadalajara.

Landeros is suspected of being responsible for a murder from more than a decade ago.

In 2010, American University professor Sue Marcum, 52, was found dead at the bottom of her basement staircase of her new home in Bethesda, Maryland.

Blunt force trauma and asphyxiation were listed as Ms Marcum's cause of death, investigators confirmed at the time.

Cops later found the DNA from under her nails and the crime scene belonged to Landeros, FBI reports have claimed.

Detectives also discovered a life insurance policy totalling $500,000 (£415,000) with Landeros listed as the beneficiary.

He now faces charges of first-degree murder and unlawful flight.

After the 2010 killing, cops tipped Landeros as the prime suspect but he couldn't be found.

But the murder didn't deter Landeros from continuing with the eastern meditative practice, with him setting up a popular studio and teaching a loyal group of students when he arrived in Mexico.

Montgomery County, the office in charge of his case, has praised the international community for helping them to carry out justice.
Police Chief Marcus Jones said: "We are happy they were able to snatch him after all the years.

"This is a fabulous outcome to get this guy in custody."

 

[Swifty]

More wedding ring strangeness, this time a report published on facebook today ..

(posted by Hugh Tracy in 'Department of Petty Rage' on facebook today)

'My hubby lost his wedding ring about 10 years ago, we couldn't find it anywhere. He ended up buying a cheapy one from Argos. Then lost that one. Found the original when looking for the new one and it was where the new one was - in the kitchen under one of the tea towels where it had come off when drying his hands'.

 

[escargot]

More wedding ring strangeness, this time a report published on facebook today ..

(posted by Hugh Tracy in 'Department of Petty Rage' on facebook today)

'My hubby lost his wedding ring about 10 years ago, we couldn't find it anywhere. He ended up buying a cheapy one from Argos. Then lost that one. Found the original when looking for the new one and it was where the new one was - in the kitchen under one of the tea towels where it had come off when drying his hands'.

My guess is that he'd been in the habit of taking off and replacing the old ring. If he did this automatically he might have come across the old one and put it on without realising which it was. Eventually they'd end up together.

 

[maximus otter]

Hanukkah menorahs, 400 other Jewish items hidden during WWII found in yard in Poland​

About 400 items believed to have been hidden in the ground by their Jewish owners during World War II have been uncovered during home renovation work in a yard in Lodz in central Poland.

The objects include Hanukkah menorahs and items used in daily life.

A hanukkiah, or menorah, found under a Lodz apartment building, January 3, 2022. (Facebook/Provincial Office for the Protection of Monuments in Łódz; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

They are mostly silver-plated tableware, menorahs, and glass containers for cosmetics, according to the regional office for the preservation of historic objects. The office’s experts said last week that the objects would be handed over to the city’s archaeology museum.

Silver cups found under a Lodz apartment building, January 3, 2022. (Facebook/Provincial Office for the Protection of Monuments in Łódz; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

The stash was found in December and two of the menorahs were lit on December 22, during Hanukkah, an event organized by the city’s Jewish community.

The house at 23 Polnocna Street, where the objects were found, was just outside the perimeter of the Litzmannstadt Ghetto that the occupying Nazi Germans established in Lodz in February 1940 and until August 1944 held about 200,000 Jews from across Europe. Most inmates died there or in concentration camps.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveb...s-hidden-during-wwii-found-in-yard-in-poland/

maximus otter

 

[cycleboy2]

Rio Tinto lose a small - as in tiny - radioactive capsule that "can cause skin burns, radiation sickness and cancer".

Should be easy to find, though, as it's on a section of Australia's Great Northern Highway... a 1400km section!

https://www.theguardian.com/austral...-was-weeks-before-anyone-realised-it-was-lost

 

[escargot]

Rio Tinto lose a small - as in tiny - radioactive capsule that "can cause skin burns, radiation sickness and cancer".

Should be easy to find, though, as it's on a section of Australia's Great Northern Highway... a 1400km section!

https://www.theguardian.com/austral...-was-weeks-before-anyone-realised-it-was-lost

Heard about this on t'wireless. The capsule is a solid cylinder, 6cm x 8cm, and could have become trapped in the tread of a hefty enough tyre.

Hats off to Rio Tinto for coming clean about it!

 

[escargot]

A Giacometti 'chandelier', actually a spherical sculpture designed as a light fitting, went missing in the 1960s and turned up in an antique shop.
It was spotted and purchased by painter John Craxton for the even then-sizeable wedge of £250, and is now about to change hands for a lot more!

Rare Giacometti chandelier bought for £250 in London set to sell for £7m

The chandelier has an estimated price of £1.5m – £2.5m (plus the buyer’s premium), but Michelle McMullan at Christie’s recognises this is a conservative baseline for such a “prestigious” chandelier that is “extremely rare”. “The market for Alberto and his brother Diego Giacometti design pieces has never been stronger, with the top price for a Giacometti chandelier at auction being £7,602,400 in 2018 for a bronze from 1949,” she said.

 

[cycleboy2]

Heard about this on t'wireless. The capsule is a solid cylinder, 6cm x 8cm, and could have become trapped in the tread of a hefty enough tyre.

Hats off to Rio Tinto for coming clean about it!

It's actually 6mm x 8mm! That'll take some finding!

 

[escargot]

It's actually 6mm x 8mm! That'll take some finding!

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Haha, well spotted! I mistyped.

What a silly mistake, when an item of 6cmx8cm would be SO much easier to find along 1400km of highway!

 

[catseye]

My mum's engagement ring never did turn up.

It had been in my jewellery box on a shelf. One day, when I came to look for it, it was gone (not stolen, there were many other more valuable and stealable things in the room with it). I assumed that the children had been messing about with my jewellery box as they sometimes did and it had got under furniture or somewhere and just not put back in with everything else.

I tore the room apart. I questioned the children, apart and together and they all swore they hadn't taken it (to be honest they were all of an age where it wouldn't have been any good to them other than to play dressing up with and, again, more accessible and useful things were available).

When I moved out of the house the place was torn apart by the builders who bought it. I was on good terms with them and asked them to keep an eye out for the ring - my mother is now deceased and I'd really quite like it. But no sign. It's been gone for nearly 20 years now and I still have absolutely no idea where it went. I kind of kept the faith, hoping it had dropped somewhere inacessible in the room (I even emptied the room out completely, no sign of it). But that did not appear to have been the case.

So, ring, if you're out there and would like to come back...

 

[escargot]

My mum's engagement ring never did turn up.

It had been in my jewellery box on a shelf. One day, when I came to look for it, it was gone (not stolen, there were many other more valuable and stealable things in the room with it). I assumed that the children had been messing about with my jewellery box as they sometimes did and it had got under furniture or somewhere and just not put back in with everything else.

I tore the room apart. I questioned the children, apart and together and they all swore they hadn't taken it (to be honest they were all of an age where it wouldn't have been any good to them other than to play dressing up with and, again, more accessible and useful things were available).

When I moved out of the house the place was torn apart by the builders who bought it. I was on good terms with them and asked them to keep an eye out for the ring - my mother is now deceased and I'd really quite like it. But no sign. It's been gone for nearly 20 years now and I still have absolutely no idea where it went. I kind of kept the faith, hoping it had dropped somewhere inacessible in the room (I even emptied the room out completely, no sign of it). But that did not appear to have been the case.

So, ring, if you're out there and would like to come back...

Dammit, you've set me off now. I NEED to find that ring.

Right, back to when you noticed it was missing. What time of day was it? What did you have for breakfast?

 

[catseye]

Dammit, you've set me off now. I NEED to find that ring.

Right, back to when you noticed it was missing. What time of day was it? What did you have for breakfast?

Sadly, Scargy, I think it's long gone, although where I have no idea. I've moved house, just two houses down the road, so if it had ever turned up it would have been returned to me, I know. It was the mystery of its vanishing that confused me, because I would suppose one thing (that the children had been playing with it) only for that not to be the case (and, years later, I still genuinely believe that it wasn't them, because they were ratty little dobbers and if one had taken it off to play with then the others would have turned them in in a heartbeat, and even if they hadn't, it would have turned up by now), theft (but my credit cards were propped up against the jewellery box and still there when I went to take it down, plus loose money in the same room. I'm pretty much down to 'taken by magpies' now.

 

[Dinobot]

My mum's engagement ring never did turn up.

It had been in my jewellery box on a shelf. One day, when I came to look for it, it was gone (not stolen, there were many other more valuable and stealable things in the room with it). I assumed that the children had been messing about with my jewellery box as they sometimes did and it had got under furniture or somewhere and just not put back in with everything else.

I tore the room apart. I questioned the children, apart and together and they all swore they hadn't taken it (to be honest they were all of an age where it wouldn't have been any good to them other than to play dressing up with and, again, more accessible and useful things were available).

When I moved out of the house the place was torn apart by the builders who bought it. I was on good terms with them and asked them to keep an eye out for the ring - my mother is now deceased and I'd really quite like it. But no sign. It's been gone for nearly 20 years now and I still have absolutely no idea where it went. I kind of kept the faith, hoping it had dropped somewhere inacessible in the room (I even emptied the room out completely, no sign of it). But that did not appear to have been the case.

So, ring, if you're out there and would like to come back...

Dammit, you've set me off now. I NEED to find that ring.

Right, back to when you noticed it was missing. What time of day was it? What did you have for breakfast?

@escargot likes her jewellery....

 

[cycleboy2]

The teeny-tiny radioactive capsule has been found! Huzzah!!

https://www.theguardian.com/austral...tback-found-by-side-of-1400km-stretch-of-road

Though being the Guardian there's a lovely typo: "It is being stored at a secure location in Newman, before being transported to Perth on Thursday, inside a led container to shield people from radiation."

 

[maximus otter]

Random Person Finds Dismembered Male Genitalia Sitting In Gas Station Parking Lot: Police​

The Mobile Police Department (MPD) responded to a call Monday that male genitalia had been found at an Alabama gas station.

Witnesses found the human penis in the parking lot of a gas station located at the corner of Navco Road and McVay Drive after 6:00 am, a local news outlet reported.

The MPD told the Caller police are not investigating the incident as a murder or assault. The MPD believes the penis belongs to a motorcycle driver who was involved in a fatal accident on the nearby interstate.

https://dailycaller.com/2023/01/31/mobile-alabama-gas-station-male-genitalia-motorcycle/

maximus otter

 

[Floyd1]

Sadly, Scargy, I think it's long gone, although where I have no idea. I've moved house, just two houses down the road, so if it had ever turned up it would have been returned to me, I know. It was the mystery of its vanishing that confused me, because I would suppose one thing (that the children had been playing with it) only for that not to be the case (and, years later, I still genuinely believe that it wasn't them, because they were ratty little dobbers and if one had taken it off to play with then the others would have turned them in in a heartbeat, and even if they hadn't, it would have turned up by now), theft (but my credit cards were propped up against the jewellery box and still there when I went to take it down, plus loose money in the same room. I'm pretty much down to 'taken by magpies' now.

That's a far better phrase than 'a grass' !

 

[hunck]

The teeny-tiny radioactive capsule has been found! Huzzah!!

https://www.theguardian.com/austral...tback-found-by-side-of-1400km-stretch-of-road

Though being the Guardian there's a lovely typo: "It is being stored at a secure location in Newman, before being transported to Perth on Thursday, inside a led container to shield people from radiation."

The capsule was found when a vehicle equipped with specialist equipment, which was travelling at 70 km/h (43 mph), detected radiation, officials said.

Portable detection equipment was then used to locate the capsule, which was found about 2m (7ft) from the side of the road.

This sounds a fairly unlikely explanation to account for the loss - the gauge fell apart in the truck & the capsule dropped out..

The gauge was being transported by a subcontracted company, which picked it up from the mine site on 12 January to move it to a storage facility in the north-east suburbs of Perth.

When it was unpacked for inspection on 25 January the gauge was found broken apart and the radioactive capsule was gone. One of four mounting bolts and screws were also missing.

Authorities said vibrations during transit may have caused the bolts to become loose, allowing the capsule to fall through gaps in the casing and truck.

 

[escargot]

The teeny-tiny radioactive capsule has been found! Huzzah!!

https://www.theguardian.com/austral...tback-found-by-side-of-1400km-stretch-of-road

Though being the Guardian there's a lovely typo: "It is being stored at a secure location in Newman, before being transported to Perth on Thursday, inside a led container to shield people from radiation."

This was discussed on R4's Today this morning. The point was made that a dismissal is imminent.

I'd like to think that a company honest enough to go public about their mistake would give the worker or crew a second chance. Maybe some retraining. These incidents usually come about because of poor management.

 

[Frideswide]

A Giacometti 'chandelier'

I'd definitely give that houseroom. Although I'd need a bigger house.

 

[ramonmercado]

Hopefully the family will be traced.

An appeal has been made to solve the mystery of how the ashes of a 12-year-old girl who died exactly 46 years ago ended up being found in a park.

Yvonne Harrison, from Preston, died on 3 February 1977 and her body was cremated at Preston Cemetery. An oak casket containing her ashes was found last summer by Emma Lawless while on a trip to Hesketh Park in Southport.

Chris Brown from the cemetery has asked for the public's help to find out what happened to the girl's remains.

Ms Lawless, 34, told BBC North West Tonight: "Me and my two daughters come to the park all the time, and I just noticed a wooden box. I came back the week after and saw it was still here, so I thought 'I wonder if it's empty or full still?'. So I just gently picked it up, and it was really heavy. It was a really clean, bright wooden box. It just didn't look right, it stood out."

An engraving on the casket, found hidden in the undergrowth, revealed the identity of the girl inside - Yvonne Harrison.

"Losing a child must be horrendous anyway, and then to lose the ashes again must be heart-breaking if that's the case," said Ms Lawless, who reported her find in June to the local council.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-merseyside-64488847

 

[escargot]

Hopefully the family will be traced.

An appeal has been made to solve the mystery of how the ashes of a 12-year-old girl who died exactly 46 years ago ended up being found in a park.

Yvonne Harrison, from Preston, died on 3 February 1977 and her body was cremated at Preston Cemetery. An oak casket containing her ashes was found last summer by Emma Lawless while on a trip to Hesketh Park in Southport.

Chris Brown from the cemetery has asked for the public's help to find out what happened to the girl's remains.

Ms Lawless, 34, told BBC North West Tonight: "Me and my two daughters come to the park all the time, and I just noticed a wooden box. I came back the week after and saw it was still here, so I thought 'I wonder if it's empty or full still?'. So I just gently picked it up, and it was really heavy. It was a really clean, bright wooden box. It just didn't look right, it stood out."

An engraving on the casket, found hidden in the undergrowth, revealed the identity of the girl inside - Yvonne Harrison.

"Losing a child must be horrendous anyway, and then to lose the ashes again must be heart-breaking if that's the case," said Ms Lawless, who reported her find in June to the local council.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-merseyside-64488847

It might have been mistaken for something valuable in a burglary, then dumped. Strange place to leave though.

A few years ago I found a bag of human ashes on the ground after a car boot sale. They'd been tipped out of the ornate box they'd been in when the stallholder sold it. I was told this by someone who reckoned they saw it done. How disrespectful.

 

[Iris]

This week on tv a woman living a couple of suburbs away was appealing for the return of an urn with her brother's ashes which was stolen from her home in a breakin.

 

[Dinobot]

It might have been mistaken for something valuable in a burglary, then dumped. Strange place to leave though.

A few years ago I found a bag of human ashes on the ground after a car boot sale. They'd been tipped out of the ornate box they'd been in when the stallholder sold it. I was told this by someone who reckoned they saw it done. How disrespectful.

Not really. A park is a public place, and someone found them and took them to the local council to help return the ashes. Better than going to the police and saying "I took this by mistake when robbing a house".....

 

[escargot]

Not really. A park is a public place, and someone found them and took them to the local council to help return the ashes. Better than going to the police and saying "I took this by mistake when robbing a house".....

Maybe the burglar is superstitious.

 

[hunck]

Ghost shipping container with £261,000,000 in cocaine found floating in Pacific​

Just over three tonnes of coke – which could have ‘serviced’ Australia for a year – was dropped in the water by an international smuggling gang, it is believed.

New Zealand police commissioner Andrew Coster said the cocaine was dropped at a floating transit point in 81 bales before a navy ship intercepted it last week.

He said: ‘We believe there was enough cocaine to service the Australian market for about one year and this would be more than New Zealand would use in 30 years.’

 

[ramonmercado]

The Menace returns.

A statue of comic strip character Dennis the Menace that was stolen from a park in Monterey, California, last summer has been found submerged in a nearby lake.

“Today is a happy day!” Monterey County sheriff Tina Nieto said at a press conference where the statue was wheeled in on a cart.

The sheriff’s dive team found the 3ft-tall statue in Roberts Lake after Monterey city police received an anonymous tip about its location.

Dennis the Menace has a big but oddly troubled local connection. His creator, Hank Ketcham, was a long-time resident of Monterey County and died there in 2001.

The park’s original statue was stolen in 2006 and has not been found. Its replacement was stolen in August 2022 by someone who cut through its foot to remove it.

In the years between the two thefts a Dennis the Menace statue was found in a Florida scrapyard and was sent to Monterey, where officials determined it was not the right one, KSBW reported.

https://www.irishexaminer.com/world/arid-41068256.html

 

[hunck]

Skip find could be worth £250,000

Another Antiques Roadshow find.

Artwork & textiles by Althea McNish, an artist from Trinidad who became the first Black British textile designer to earn an international reputation.

Antiques expert Ronnie Archer-Morgan has been a fan of her work for a while, but was shocked when one visitor turned up to the roadshow with a whole host of McNish’s designs – that he saved from a skip!

‘She was one of the most influential, post-war textile designers that Britain has seen. She brought the colour and vibrancy of Trinidad to the shores of post-war Britain at a time when we really needed colour here.

On how he [the finder] acquired all the artwork, he explained: ‘2020, builders were throwing stuff away, I was a cheeky chap, asked them if I could have a look, buy some bits and bobs, done a deal…’