OFFBEAT NEWS:

Vet Reunited With Love Letter 72-Years-Later

If you run into a surprise while renovating, normally it’s a bad thing. For Melissa Fahy, it turned into a heartwarming mission. The Westfield, New Jersey woman was working on home when she and her father discovered a letter in a gap under the stairs.

The note, postmarked May 1945, was written by a woman named Virginia to her husband, Rolf Christoffersen, who was a sailor in the Norwegian Navy at the time. “I love you Rolf, as I love the warm sun,” Virginia wrote. “That is what you are to my life, the sun about which everything else revolves for me.”

Fahy decided to try and return the letter to the Christoffersen family and ended up finding Virginia and Rolf’s son in California after posting about the note on Facebook. It turns out Virginia died six-years-ago, but Rolf is still alive at 96. Their son has been able to read the letter to his dad…and we’re all weepy.

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Italian Mayor Won’t Pay You To Move To His Town After All

Don’t hop on that flight to Italy after all. As we previously reported, Daniele Galliano, the mayor of Bormida, Italy, offered to pay people $2,170 to relocate to his tiny village in efforts to boost the population.

Well, the plan worked. Bormida has reportedly received 17-thousand calls from those itching to move…and cash in. But not so fast. Mayor Galliano is clarifying his comments. “It was only a suggestion,” he explains. “The news has been reported incorrectly and reached a worldwide audience. Italy is a wonderful country but, like others, it is in an economic crisis. Thanks anyway for your interest.”

In other words, if you want to join the 387 people who currently live in Bormida, you’ll have to do it on your own dime.

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STUPID CRIMINALS:

Half-naked driver crashes car into store to get beer:

A 45-year-old driver made a few mistakes while out on a beer run. First of all the Rocky River, Ohio man was wearing nothing from the waist down. More importantly, he drove his car into a convenience store in order to get some booze. Once inside, he told an injured employee he was there to get beer. Police arrived and the unnamed man barricaded himself inside a beer cooler and told police to shoot him. Instead, they used a stun gun and brought him in. The driver was taken to a hospital, as was the store employee, who suffered leg and chest injuries that weren’t considered critical. Not surprisingly, the half-naked driver was hit with an impaired driving charge.

Military dog stolen for the second time in a week:

There are some brazen crooks in Denmark. Pablo the military dog has been stolen not once, but twice – in just one week! His owner, Michael Johansen, explains the pooch is being trained to sniff out drugs and the pair are due to find narcotics at Kabul’s international airport. The first time Pablo was taken, he was found the next day thinks to a Facebook post by the Danish Air Force going viral. Authorities are hoping the dog is found soon this time, too.