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Nude Self-Portrait On a Rug Pinched
MCMINNVILLE, Ore. (AP) — Tamera Bremer titled the life-size nude self-portrait she laboriously wove into a rug “the sexy sex: all-nude review rug one.” Somebody apparently found it fetching, and late Monday it vanished from an exhibit floor at Linfield College.
Bremer said the latch-hook work took thousands of hours and she valued it in the five-figure range.
It was the first in a five-rug project the Portland artist, an adjunct professor at Linfield, has in the works.
The curvy cutout was fashioned from monk’s cloth, a heavy cotton, and hand-painted in 10 colors on alpaca yarn.
“I don’t understand why anyone would want to steal something like this,” she said. “Whoever did it doesn’t understand what they’ve done. It’s my life’s work.”
A video camera and two pieces of student art also were missing.
McMinnville Police Capt. Dennis Marks said officers will check with local second-hand stores. But if it’s college kids, it’s probably in somebody’s room, Marks said.
More Strange News
Associated Press - October 10, 2007 5:43 AM ET
ELLWOOD CITY, Pa. (AP) - It might look like junk. But not to Todd McDevitt. He knows the first Batman comic when he sees it. McDevitt owns five New Dimension Comics stores in the Pittsburgh area. He says his eyes almost popped out of his head when a man walked in and wanted to know if an old comic book was worth anything. The man said he had recently found a copy of Detective Comics 27 in the attic. The pre-World War II comic book features the debut of Batman. McDevitt says it wasn’t in the best of shape. He won’t reveal exactly how much he paid for the old comic book, but McDevitt says it’s worth about $250,000. A mint condition copy goes for twice that much.
GRETZKY’S GARAGE SALE
WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif. (AP) - Now, you can get a great jersey from the Great One if you’ve got the bucks. Wayne Gretzky is holding a benefit garage sale in a couple of weeks at a school in Westlake Village, California, outside Los Angeles. Gretzky and his family have sold their house and moved from Southern California to the Phoenix area, where he coaches the Coyotes. At the October 27th sale, they’ll be selling everything from autographed jerseys to home furnishings. Gretzky is also offering signed bottles of his newly released wine. Proceeds from the Gretzky garage sale will go for local education programs and a new baseball stadium at the Oaks Christian School.
ANSONIA-COCKROACHES
NEW YORK (AP) - A swanky New York City apartment building has some undesirable tenants. At least that’s what attorney Alan Arkin claims in his suit against the owners of the Ansonia building. Arkin charges his apartment is “completely uninhabitable” because it’s overrun with cockroaches. Angelina Jolie is a neighbor in the building and former tenants include Babe Ruth and Jack Dempsey. Arkin says he and his wife can’t turn out the lights at night because the roaches crawl all over the bed. He says they’re even in the coffee maker. No comment yet from officials of the realty company that owns the Ansonia. But Arkin says they told him he should just move.
CAT URINE CHARGES
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - Cat pee cost Cynthia Hunter nearly two months in jail. She was busted for stealing from a Brandon, Florida, Wal-Mart. Deputies added drug charges when they found a vial of yellow powder in her purse. The Tampa Tribune reports a field test for drugs suggested the substance was speed. But Hunter maintained it was dried cat pee for her son’s science project. Lab tests determined she was right and Hunter was sprung from jail. She pleaded guilty to petty theft and a judge gave her time served.
GAY CUSTOMER-LAWSUIT
NEW YORK (AP) - Khadijah Farmer wants more than an apology. She’s suing a popular restaurant in New York’s Greenwich (GREN’-ich) Village, claiming a bouncer chased her out of the women’s bathroom because she looked too masculine. Farmer told a news conference yesterday she knows she looks like a man, with her short hair. But she says she was humiliated and is the victim of gender discrimination. The incident occurred at an eatery called the Caliente Cab Company after New York’s gay pride parade last June. The restaurant is denying the discrimination claim.
Teens Nabbed After Police Station Turn
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Talk about a wrong turn. Three teens suspected of burglarizing vehicles were arrested after they attempted to elude a police car by turning into a police station.
An area resident reported the break-ins about 3 a.m. Monday and gave police a description of the teens and their car. Officers spotted the car - and it appeared the driver noticed the officers, police spokesman Joel DeSpain said. He turned right, apparently in an attempt to avoid the squad car.
“They turned right into the East District Station, ” DeSpain said. “Then we arrested them. ” Two 16-year-old boys and a 15-year-old girl were tentatively charged with entry into a locked vehicle, property damage and theft. Police recovered two iPods, credit cards, car stereos and two baseball bats from them, DeSpain said.
Boy, 6, Tries To Drive To Applebees
BROOMFIELD, Colo. (AP) — A 6-year-old boy was hungry and decided he’d go to Applebees. So he grabbed the car keys, took his booster seat from the back seat of his grandmother’s car and placed it in the driver’s seat, then made a go of driving himself to the restaurant Tuesday.
He made it about 75 feet. Unable to take the car out of reverse, he crossed the street and ran into a transformer and communication box, knocking out electricity and phone service to dozens of townhomes.
Nobody was injured and the boy, whose name was not released, got out of his car and told his grandmother what happened.
“He proceeded to start the car and started backing up,” said Sgt. Colleen O’Connell of the Broomfield Police Department. “He went backward about 47 feet, hit the curb, then went backward another 29 feet.”
Investigators couldn’t figure out how the boy reached the accelerator.
No charges will be filed.
Change for $1 Million?
PITTSBURGH - Change for a million?
That’s what a man was seeking Saturday when he handed a $1 million bill to a cashier at a Pittsburgh supermarket. But when the Giant Eagle employee refused and a manager confiscated the bogus bill, the man flew into a rage, police said.
The man slammed an electronic funds-transfer machine into the counter and reached for a scanner gun, police said.
Police arrested the man, who was not carrying identification and has refused to give his name to authorities. He is being held in the Allegheny County Jail.
Since 1969, the $100 bill is the largest note in circulation.
Police believe the $1 million note seized at the supermarket may have originated at a Dallas-based ministry. Last year, the ministry distributed thousands of religious pamphlets with a picture of President Glover Cleveland on a $1 million bill.
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