ODDLY ENOUGH
ODDLY ENOUGH
Missing tree sculpture is found, returned to Ohio city
DUBLIN, Ohio
After a publicized search, a missing “tree-climbing man” sculpture has been returned to a central Ohio city.
The “man” is actually a valuable yellowish-orange sculpture of a life-size tree-climber. It disappeared from its perch in a tree at a park in the Columbus suburb of Dublin in late November, leading to stories and posts on traditional and social media.
City spokeswoman Lindsay Weisenauer said the sculpture was found in another tree in Coffman Park on Dec. 2.
The Columbus Dispatch reported that the fiberglass sculpture was one of four installed in trees in the park in 2008, collectively known as “Exuvia.” The one that went missing might have been blown out of the tree by recent high winds.
Cat survives 36-day trip in moving box from Va. to Hawaii
SUFFOLK, Va.
A cat has used up at least one of its nine lives after surviving a monthlong trip in a moving box with no food or water.
Ashley Barth tells WAVY-TV her cat Mee Moowe disappeared in September as movers packed her family’s belongings for a move from Suffolk, Va., to Hawaii.
Thirty-six days later, the boxes arrived in Hawaii. Barth says she heard a faint “meow” as the boxes were unloaded. Mee Moowe was in one of the boxes.
Barth says the cat had lost half her body weight and could barely walk.
WAVY says a veterinarian office in Hawaii that treated Mee Moowe reported the cat exhibited classic symptoms of starvation.
State veterinarian offices in Virginia and Hawaii told WAVY it’s unlikely a cat could survive 36 days without food or water, but not impossible.
2 get home confinement in stolen cooking-oil case
PROVIDENCE, R.I.
Two brothers have been sentenced to home confinement and probation for conspiring to sell 200,000 gallons of used cooking oil stolen from restaurants in Rhode Island and Massachusetts.
Andrew Jeremiah, 78, and Bruce Jeremiah, 72, were sentenced recently in federal court in Providence to two years’ probation, with the first six months in home confinement. They pleaded guilty in September to conspiring to unlawfully transport stolen goods.
Prosecutors say the brothers, both from Cranston, R.I., partnered with Anthony Simone Sr., also of Cranston. Simone awaits sentencing.
Authorities say the stolen oil was brought to the Jeremiahs’ business in Central Falls, R.I., and taken to Pittsfield, N.H., for processing into animal feed and biofuel.
Associated Press