Tag: Offbeat
-
Offbeat | Giant rotating ice disk draws attention, visitors
Think of it as a crop circle, but in a river. A curious formation that’s getting attention in Greater Portland is actually a spinning ice disk ... -
Offbeat | Silicon Valley landlord rents USD1,500 studio to two cats
Two cats are living large at a USD1,500-a-month studio apartment their owner rents for them in Silicon Valley, where a housing shortage has sent rents skyrocketing. ... -
Offbeat | Dave? Dave? Kansas City man gets tickets for helping Chief
A random act of kindness has netted AFC Championship tickets for a man called Dave who helped dig a Kansas City Chief out of the snow. ... -
Offbeat | Officials: Man broke into home, got owner to give him a ride
Authorities in Maine say a man broke into a home, had a bite to eat, watched TV and even got a car ride from his unsuspecting ... -
Offbeat | Leaping lemur surprises Florida trooper during DUI arrest
A lemur surprised a Florida Highway Patrol trooper when it crawled from a trailer being pulled by a pickup truck that had been stopped for driving ... -
Offbeat | Actor-comedian Kevin Hart will host 2019 Oscars
Kevin Hart has a new job — he will host the 2019 Academy Awards, a role the prolific actor-comedian says fulfills a longtime dream. Hart announced ... -
Offbeat | Steer too beefy to become burgers reprieved to life on farm
Knickers the steer is huge on the internet — for being huge. The black-and-white Holstein Friesian won social media fame and many proclamations of “Holy Cow!” ... -
Offbeat | Canadian scientist names beetle after Jose Bautista
Jose Bautista has a new namesake buzzing around. Entomologist Bob Anderson of the Canadian Museum of Nature has dubbed a newly discovered species of beetle Sicoderus ... -
Offbeat | Bedazzled pigeon found in Arizona city reunited with owners
A pigeon that had flown the coop with only its bedazzled vest is nesting back home in Phoenix. The Arizona Republic reports Marlette Fernando and her ... -
Offbeat | Aerosmith’s Perry cancels tour after recent hospital visit
Joe Perry has canceled his fall tour to take time off after recently being hospitalized with breathing problems. The Aerosmith guitarist’s publicist said in a statement ... -
Offbeat | Treasure hunter flip flops on returning missing gold coins
A treasure hunter has taken back a pledge to turn over 500 missing coins minted from gold found in a shipwreck off the South Carolina coast. ... -
Offbeat | Giant wooden troll removed in Colorado could get new home
A huge wooden troll that proved to be too popular in a Colorado ski resort town is gone, but it’s possible the artwork could find another ... -
Offbeat | Missing zoo meerkat case solved, three charged in Australia
It wasn’t grand theft. It was tiny. But the snatching of a baby meerkat from a zoo has not only become a major story in the ... -
Offbeat | Romanian man returns USD107,000 found in secondhand cupboard
A Romanian man was surprised to find 95,000 euros (USD107,000) stashed inside a secondhand cupboard he’d bought — and promptly returned the money. Adela Stanici told ... -
Offbeat | This is heavy: The kilogram is getting an update
The kilogram is getting an update. No, your bathroom scales won’t suddenly become kinder and a kilo of fruit will still weigh a kilo. But the ... -
Offbeat | Dutchman, 69, seeks legal age change to 49, invokes discrimination
Self-styled positivity guru Emile Ratelband thinks age is just a number. And his is a number the Dutchman wants changed. The 69-year-old TV personality has asked ... -
Offbeat | Officers catch huge lizard that terrified Florida neighbors
Florida authorities have caught a huge lizard that has terrified residents of a suburban Miami neighborhood for months. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission said ... -
Offbeat | Leaks reveal Man City deal to hide player costs from UEFA
Manchester City created a shell company for a commercial deal to disguise tens of millions of dollars in income from UEFA investigators, according to club ... -
Offbeat | Python presents slithery situation at Texas Goodwill store
A Goodwill worker collecting clothes and other items at a Texas sorting center was surprised to find an albino python clinging to the side of a ... -
Offbeat | Halloween Times! Men arrested in pumpkin smashing crime spree
Police in the southern Oregon town of Grants Pass have arrested two men suspected in a pumpkin-powered crime spree, ending weeks of incidents of smashed gourds ... -
Offbeat | People find severed head in Oakland yard, take it to police
Police investigators were trying to determine whether a decaying human head found this week in an Oakland backyard belongs to a recently discovered headless corpse. People ... -
Offbeat | They growl and bite! Hundreds of Oregon ‘witches’ paddle down river, minus the brooms
Hundreds of “witches” traded in broomsticks for paddles in Oregon during the last weekend before Halloween. The costumed coven paddled 10 kilometers on boards Saturday along ... -
Offbeat | A hot dog? Firefighters rescue pet stuck in heating duct
It wasn’t a cat in a tree, but a dog in a heating duct that took firefighters to a home in Virginia. The Fairfax County Fire ... -
Offbeat | 12-pound lunar meteorite sells for more than USD600,000
A 12-pound (5.5 kilogram) chunk of the moon that fell to the Earth as a lunar meteorite has been sold at auction for more than USD600,000. ... -
Offbeat | Cattle roundup over: Last cow caught weeks after truck crash
Officials say a cow that hoofed it for two weeks on the lam after a livestock truck overturned on a busy interstate junction north of Atlanta ... -
Offbeat | Deputies use Doritos to lure wayward pig back home
Deputies in California have used Doritos to lure a pig “the size of a mini horse” back home. The pig was running around a neighborhood when ... -
Offbeat | Gecko butt-dials ‘bazillion’ times from Hawaii seal hospital
If you got incessant phone calls last week from a hospital that cares for Hawaiian monk seals, you were butt-dialed. Or, more specifically, foot-dialed. By a ... -
Offbeat | Taiwanese use new machines to exchange trash for cash
Residents of Taiwan’s capital Taipei are using newly installed machines called “iTrash booths” to recycle cans and bottles in exchange for credit on their transportation smart ... -
Offbeat | Black bear wandered into hotel that inspired ‘The Shining’
A black bear wandered the lobby of the Colorado hotel that inspired Stephen King to write “The Shining.” Stanley Hotel Vice President Reed Rowley tells KDVR-TV ... -
Offbeat | Daily dose of national anthem in hospitals stuns Egyptians
A decision by Egypt’s new health minister to have intercoms in state hospitals play the national anthem every morning, followed by a recitation of the Hippocratic ... -
Offbeat | Munich officials want train station to have air taxi parking
A group of city counselors in Munich say they want the southern German city’s main train station to have a landing pad for flying taxis. Five ... -
Offbeat | Can dogs perform CPR? Madrid police would have you think so
Can dogs perform CPR? Probably not, but a video posted by police in Madrid sure makes it seem so. In a video posted on Facebook, Poncho ... -
Offbeat | Her life saved, Bulgarian cow Penka waits to rejoin herd
Swatting away the flies with her long tail, Penka the cow happily munches on hay, unaware of the international stir she has caused. The cow from ... -
Offbeat | French fashion powerhouse Saint Laurent takes New Jersey
Saint Laurent decamped from Paris to New Jersey for a menswear show with a shine that matched the glittery Manhattan nightscape just across the downtown harbor. ... -
Offbeat | La Scala’s 2018-19 season features Verdi, Woody Allen
The storied La Scala opera house announced that it will open the 2018-19 season with a new production of Verdi’s “Attila,” continuing the tradition of Italian ...
