Texas fat cat up for adoption
RICHARDSON, Texas (AP) — Don’t be fooled by the name. Skinny the cat is one hefty feline. And all 41 pounds (19 kilograms) of her needs a home.
A Dallas-area animal shelter has cared for the 5-year-old orange tabby since getting a call about a stray in a yard about a week ago.
Kim Chapin with Richardson Animal Services said Friday that Skinny’s “very sweet” — and the largest cat she’s seen in 21 years with the shelter.
Not surprising. US government growth charts show Skinny weighs about as much as the average four-year-old child.
Chapin says Skinny appears healthy except for being overweight and likely having diabetes. Blood tests have been ordered.
Chapin says somebody apparently had been caring for the cat but officials aren’t sure who owned the huge kitty.
Atlanta jeweller offers bang for your buck
ATLANTA, Georgia (AP) — A jeweler in metro Atlanta is adding some bang to the bling.
Under a new promotion, customers who buy a diamond worth $2,499 or more from D. Geller and Son will get a voucher for a free hunting rifle.
Owner Mike Geller told WSB-TV that he got the idea after seeing a similar offer at a Missouri car dealership. He said many of his customers are hunters.
Geller’s stores are not handing out rifles at the counter. Customers must go to a local gun dealer to redeem the voucher and follow all laws governing the purchase of firearms.
Catch of the day
BOSTON, Massachusetts (AP) — A Boston man fishing for dinner at a city beach instead came up with an “upsetting and scary” catch — a handgun.
Alberto Pina said he at first thought he’d hooked a big one when his fishing pole bent Sunday afternoon at Carson Beach, a day after he hauled in a 27-inch bluefish.
But what came out of the water was a barnacle-encrusted gun.
The 37-year-old Roxbury man said what was particularly upsetting is that he had his 3-year-old son with him.
Boston police spokeswoman Nicole Grant tells the Boston Herald that Pina called 911 at 6:11 p.m. to report his catch. Detectives were dispatched to the scene to recover the weapon and start an investigation.
World’s tallest Mohawk
NEW YORK, USA (AP) — Guinness World Records is calling it the tallest mohawk in the world.
A fashion designer from Tokyo showed off his 3-foot-8.6-inch hairdo in a New York City park two Wednesdays ago.
Forty-year-old Kazuhiro Watanabe says he’s been growing the hair for 15 years. He says to make it stand upright it takes stylists two hours, one can of gel and three cans of hairspray. He says he wanted to grow the mohawk to rebel against the conformity of Japanese society.
Watanabe has held the title since January 2011.
His appearance in Washington Square Park was to promote the newest version of the Guinness World Records book, which for the first time includes him.
