Wasted Daily News

Kathleen Tarbell “fell head over my stomach” for her husband Waldo when they met at a dance. They married in 1927, during Calvin Coolidge’s presidency. This weekend, they’ll celebrate their 80th anniversary.

Waldo is 101 and Kathleen will turn 100 in June. The anniversary party will be Saturday afternoon at Oceanview Nursing Home, where the couple shares a large room. Read the rest of this entry →

A man landed in hot water after police say he hid a tiny camera in a shampoo bottle to watch two of his female roommates as they took showers.

A male roommate, curious why the shampoo wasn’t moved for some time, found wires protruding from the back of the bottle, then called police, authorities said. Read the rest of this entry →

Twenty-two years ago, Mahlon Webb Jr. wrote a note, put it in a bottle and tossed it into the ocean at a North Carolina Beach. Five years ago, he got a call from a woman on Grand Cayman Island saying she’d found the bottle.

Last week, Webb made the same type of call, this time to an Arkansas school where children sent a balloon aloft with a note attached. Read the rest of this entry →

City officials have purchased 1,000 hand-held boat horns to help residents scare off coyotes. Code compliance manager Dirk Voss said this week he bought the horns early last month after residents complained that coyotes were killing their pets.

“The taxpayers don’t want us to say, ‘It’s not our job,’” Voss said this week. “They want us to come up with something.” Read the rest of this entry →

Police were trying to pick up the trail of three people suspected of staging a panty raid this week at a Victoria’s Secret in Newport Center Mall.  The trio — two men and a woman — were able to thwart security sensors at the store because they used shopping bags lined with aluminum foil, known as “booster bags,” police said.  A security camera at the store caught the heist, but not before the trio grabbed dozens of bras and women’s panties from two display tables. Read the rest of this entry →

For Dutch consumers who wish to save 44 euro cents ($0.59) on posting a letter, there is a solution: an advertisement on the back of the envelope.

Dutch advertising company gratis-post.nl will begin offering consumers a pack of five envelopes with free stamps next month that they can use for standard letters up to 20 grams. Read the rest of this entry →

A group of Chinese reporters came up with a novel idea to test how greedy local hospitals were — pass off tea as urine samples and submit the drink for tests.

The results: six out of 10 hospitals in Hangzhou, the capital of the rich coastal province of Zhejiang, visited by the reporters over a two-day period this month concluded that the patients’ urinal tracts were infected. Read the rest of this entry →