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As if moving across the country wasn’t stressful enough, Betty and John Moore also had to deal with their cat Buddy running away. The Moores made the move from Tillamook, Oregon to Shreveport, Louisiana without Buddy, but traveled back multiple times to try and find it.
The Moores figured their feline was gone for good…until about year-and-a-half after their move, when Buddy showed up at the Tillamook organization United Paws. Now, United Paws is raising money to get Buddy home to the Moores for Christmas. So far, United Paws has raised more than $16-hundred.
“What are the odds of people actually finding him,” John Moore says. “It’s a great story – homeless kitty found at homeless shelter trying to get home for Christmas.”
For Giuseppina Projetto, life has been sweet for a long time. At 115 years old, the Italian woman is now the oldest living European. She’s also the third-oldest person alive in the world, behind two Japanese women.
Projetto lives with her family near Florence and while she hasn’t given a list of ways to make it to her age, she does swear by chocolate.
After an unsuccessful trip to the casino, Leon and Karin Greenberg headed back to their Ossining, New York home. Using the money they had left, Karin bought a lotto ticket and decided to splurge on a $25 scratch-off. Good thing she did because the couple won the $7-million jackpot.
Leon says he and his wife are taking the lump sum, which is around $4-million. The 69-year-old is going to keep working, but cut down on his hours. As for how he’s going to spend the money, Leon says it’s going to his five children and eight grandchildren.
Beyond that, he’s going to hit the golf course more often and take Karin on a Las Vegas vacation.
STUPID CRIMINALS
This is certainly not what Jesus would do. Police in West Bend, Wisconsin are looking for the person who removed the head and arm of a baby Jesus statue from a local nativity scene. The arm has been recovered but the head is still missing. Believe it or not, this isn’t the first time someone has vandalized the Nativity scene. The baby Jesus was stolen from the Nativity sometime in the 1970s or late 1980s, and a donkey was stolen in 2013.
In general, it’s best to avoid getting into a brawl. If you happen to be walking through a mall with a stroller when a fight breaks out, you should definitely avoid the action. Unfortunately, a woman at the Edison Mall in Florida did just the opposite. The unidentified shopper was involved in a massive fight outside of a Victoria’s Secret. It’s unclear why the melee started or if anyone was arrested, but security footage shows the woman with the stroller kicking another woman in the head. Police are investigating.
