Someone must have really needed some socks.
A southern Arizona man is out a dozen pairs of socks after someone sneaked into his backyard early Monday and stole socks off a clothesline.
He told the Cochise County Sheriff’s Office that at some point between late Sunday and early Monday, someone entered his fenced-in backyard and made off with 12 pairs of white athletic socks that were hanging on a clothesline.
Sheriff’s spokeswoman Carol Capas said the lost and damaged property totaled about $50.
Watery quest yields “Lord of the Ring”
A New Zealand man who promised his wife he would find his wedding ring after it fell into the capital’s murky harbor has succeeded — 16 months later.
Ecologist Aleki Taumoepeau was checking Wellington harbor for invasive plant species in March last year when the ring went into 10 feet of water.
“It flew off into the air and everyone on the boat was looking at it and said it was like a scene from ‘Lord of the Rings’ in slow motion,” Rachel Taumoepeau said.
He pledged to Rachel, his wife of three months, that he would find it.
She offered to buy a replacement. “I just said ‘No, I’ll find it,’ ” he said.
An initial search three months after the loss failed, but Taumoepeau was determined. He returned again recently for another dive, risking chill midwinter temperatures, and succeeded.
“I was getting cold and tired, so I said to God, it would be really good to find the ring about now,” he said.
He spotted the anchor — with the ring lying just inches away.
Friends have taken to calling Taumoepeau “Lord of the Ring.”
Too close to home
“I’m so upset about it, I can’t even find any humor in it. It’s pretty embarrassing.”
North Bend (Ore.) Police Chief Steve Scibelli, after a thief hit his downtown station last week, stealing a radio, two stun guns and a Crown Victoria patrol car. The one saving grace is that police made a quick arrest.
6 years clearly not long enough to learn lesson
A 64-year-old Southern California man who spent six years in prison for falsely claiming to be an attorney has been sentenced to two more years for posing as a lawyer again shortly after he was released.
Prosecutors say Harold Goldstein was sentenced to federal prison in 2003 for using the name of a northern California attorney to represent clients in court. Officials say he again started claiming he was a lawyer only days after he was released May 1.
Compiled from wire reports
