Someone is spinning quite a yarn over a New Jersey shore town. An unknown person dubbed The Midnight Knitter by West Cape May residents is covering tree branches and lamp poles with little sweaters under cover of darkness.
Mayor Pam Kaithern says police are looking into the guerrilla needlework, which is against the law because it is done on public property without permission.
The mayor and many residents admit they’re enthralled by the rainbow of colors that has popped up.
Resident Susan Longacre takes a walk each morning in Wilbraham Park, where several tree branches and light poles have gotten the treatment. She thinks it’s great. Even those who aren’t thrilled admit the yarn is better than spray-painted graffiti.
Hard times: Woman robs 11 people, gets only $6
They say crime doesn’t pay. For one robber in California, it did — but not much.
Authorities in Riverside County say a woman with a gun robbed 11 customers at a market and got away with $6.
A Sheriff’s Department statement says the woman was armed with a semiautomatic pistol when she went to La Chicanita Market in the town of Thermal on Tuesday afternoon. Deputy Herlinda Valenzuela said the woman confronted 10 customers and demanded money from one person who was entering the market. She then fled in an old car. Nobody was hurt.
500 people line up to light up 84-mile wall
Hadrian’s Wall was lit from end to end Saturday by a team of 500 volunteers holding flaming torches.
The “line of light” followed an 84-mile national walking trail, which shadows the route of the ancient Roman wall spanning northern England.
Volunteers, each holding a gas-powered beacon, stood at 820-foot intervals.
The first torch was lit at Segedunum Roman Fort in Wallsend, North Tyneside, about 6 p.m., and the final beacon was ignited at Bowness-on-Solway, on the west coast, about an hour later.
