A British man who arrived at a Spanish airport after having too much to drink has been taken into custody — not for bad behavior but for being too generous.
Turns out the tourist had recently received an inheritance, and he had started to give away $72,285 he was carrying in cash and travelers checks.
Spain’s Interior Ministry says people at Son Sant Joan Airport in Palma de Mallorca first alerted police because the disheveled man “looked like a tramp” and “had a disagreeable smell.” Police realized he was giving away thousands of euros, without realizing what he was doing.
The ministry says the man — identified as James B.N., from Manchester, England — was taken into custody Wednesday and soon persuaded to put his wallet away and fly home.
Rio brothers descend to off-the-wall lifestyle
Two brothers in Rio de Janeiro are living over the edge — literally: sleeping, working and eating on the side of a building 33 feet up in the air.
Twenty-seven-year-old Tiago Primo and his 20-year-old brother, Gabriel, spend 12 hours a day in the bed, hammock, chair and dining table they’ve attached to a bright red-and-yellow wall as part of an art exhibit in Rio’s old center.
The brothers are equipped with mountain climbing gear and, if nature calls, can scramble over to the verandah of a neighboring art gallery, where an indoor bathroom awaits.
The brothers have been hanging out wallside since the end of May.
They plan to continue the display until Aug. 20.
Patient 5 days late to dentist, shows up nude
Police say a Connecticut man has been arrested because he showed up at a dental office naked.
Police say 41-year-old Christopher Hoff, of Stratford, also was five days late for his appointment.
Authorities say Hoff entered Optimus Dental’s office Monday with nothing on. A startled female receptionist screamed, and he ran away.
Officers went to his home, and Hoff told them he had been sleeping all day. Police took Hoff to the dental office, where the receptionist identified him.
Hoff was charged with disorderly conduct, public indecency and failure to comply with fingerprinting.
Badger blocking road was drunk, not dead
A badger in Germany got so drunk on over-ripe cherries it staggered into the middle of a road and refused to budge, police said Wednesday.
Reuters news service reported that a motorist called police near the town of Goslar to report a dead badger on a road. Officers discovered the animal alive and well but drunk.
The badger had eaten cherries from a nearby tree that had turned to alcohol. Police chased it away with a broom.
