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Butterfly Naming Rights Go For 40K
A butterfly species discovered in a Florida museum has a new name after an anonymous bidder paid $40,800 for naming rights in order to honor a woman who died in 1972.
The butterfly's common name will be the Minerva owl butterfly. It's being named after the late Margery Minerva Blythe Kitzmiller of Malvern, Ohio.
While the bidder's name was not disclosed, the payment was made on behalf of Kitzmiller's grandchildren.
Man Inserts $1 Bill Into Machine, Gets $260.50 In Change
NEW CASTLE, Ind. -- A car wash change machine paid off like a Las Vegas slot for one customer, but he turned over his booty to police. Eldon McCammack put a dollar in the change machine Saturday at the Trojan Car Wash in this city about 40 miles east of Indianapolis.
People In NY And LA Are Crazy. Wait, Don't Argue, Here Is Proof - They Rent Pets.
Looking for a golden retriever, schnauzer or poodle to keep you company, but afraid of having to walk your dog in the rain or feed it while out of town? You're not alone, and now there may be a solution & for a price.
A small, but growing industry now allows want-to-be pet owners across the country to experience the joys of owning a pet, without the long-term, day-to-day hassles.
Mailbox Hit By Meteorite Sells For $83K
NEW YORK -- Two of the world's most famous meteorites failed to attract buyers at an auction Sunday, while an ordinary metal mailbox in Georgia zapped by a falling space rock in 1984 was sold for the unearthly price of nearly $83,000.
Son Goes To A Stip Club With Dad's Credit Card, Ends Up With $53,000 Bill
Two months after a recent college graduate incurred $53,000 in charges at a gentleman’s club on Okaloosa Island, investigators are reviewing allegations of fraud and larceny.
Tommy Salter, 24, of Warner Robbins, Ga., was at Club 10 early Aug. 18, celebrating his graduation from Georgia Tech, according to his father and an Okaloosa County Sheriff’s report.
Salter told Club 10 employees he could only spend $600, according the report.
Abandoned Pa. House Yields Piles Of Treasure
(AP) WINDBER, Pa. Talk about throwing away money. Piles of old coins worth as much as $200,000 were found in a long-abandoned home, including scores that the owner had apparently thrown down a hole in the wall.
Jeff Bidelman, owner of Rare Collectibles near Johnstown, said he was helping the family clean out the house after the death of the owners, who had not lived there for two decades.
He was dragging a bag of old coins down the steps when he noticed the hole in an upstairs wall.
Home-Made Helicopters A Huge Hit In Africa
KANO (AFP) - Mubarak Muhammad Abdullahi, a 24-year-old physics undergraduate in northern Nigeria, takes old cars and motorbikes to pieces in the back yard at home and builds his own helicopters from the parts.
Cemetery Allows Owners To Be Buried With Pets
Cleveland television station WEWS reported that a historic Akron cemetery is allowing pet owners and their animal friends to be buried together.The Glendale Cemetery in Akron will allow pet owners to cremate their pets to be buried in their lots.Missy Jordan is like a mortician for animals.
Woman Sues Kmart Over Toilet Paper
PITTSBURGH (AP) - A woman has sued Kmart for allegedly collecting a 7 percent state sales tax on a nontaxable item: a 12-pack of toilet tissue. Mary Bach alleges a Kmart department store in the Pittsburgh suburb of Monroeville improperly collected the tax on the $3.99 item, charging her $4.27 - or 28 cents too much.
Although most paper goods are taxable under Pennsylvania's sales tax code, toilet tissue is listed as a nontaxable item by the state Department of Revenue.
