ODDLY ENOUGH

ODDLY ENOUGH

Huge typewriter going to Boston

BOSTON

Get ready to break out the white-out, Boston. An 8-foot-tall typewriter is coming to the Rose F. Kennedy Greenway this summer.

A group of artists and designers is building a 24-to-1-scale model of a 1927 Underwood Standard Portable typewriter that will be featured at the FIGMENT Boston festival in July. It’s also set to appear at the Burning Man celebration in Nevada later this year.

The Boston Globe reported that the typewriter will have 14-inch letter keys that react when walked upon.

The Cat and the Cockroach Collective of artists and designers has raised more than $20,000 for the project.

The concept was inspired by a New York Evening Sun column from the 1920s called Archy and Mehitabel that featured a poet reincarnated as a cockroach who wrote his adventures.

‘God’, credit-rating agency settle

NEW YORK

A New York City man whose first name is God has settled a lawsuit with a credit-reporting agency that had refused to recognize his name as legitimate.

Under the agreement reached in Brooklyn federal court last week, Equifax will enter God Gazarov’s name into its database.

The terms of the settlement were not disclosed.

Gazarov now has a robust 820 credit score.

He says he was shocked by Equifax’s refusal to acknowledge his moniker.

The Russian native is a Brooklyn jewelry-store owner who is named after his grand- father. He says it’s a relatively common name in his native country.

He told the New York Post he’s relieved the matter has been settled and plans to buy a new BMW.

Lawyers for Equifax declined to comment.

Animal control mistakes life-sized toy for real tiger

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.

An animal control worker in Michigan was convinced he was looking at a young tiger lying in a driveway, so he approached with care. He grabbed a pole and a shield, and called police.

Turns out, it was a stuffed animal.

The Grand Rapids Press reported that Kent County Animal Control received a call last week about a tiger in the driveway of a vacant Grand Rapids home.

Supervisor Joe Dainelis responded to the call, and when he spotted the animal, he grabbed his safety gear.

Neighbors also thought the life-sized, furry toy was real.

But when co-worker Rachel Jensen approached from another direction, she realized there was nothing ferocious about the toy feline.

Associated Press