Odds and Ends: Kitten found after spending 25 days in subway tunnels
February 18, 2008
NEW YORK – A skittish kitten that scampered out of its carrier on a subway platform has been found after 25 days in the underground tunnels.
Transit workers tracked down 6-month old Georgia under midtown Manhattan Saturday. Police reunited her with owner Ashley Phillips.
After hearing that the cat might have been spotted below Lexington Avenue and East 55th Street, track workers Mark Dalessio and Efrain LaPorte went through the area making “meow” sounds.
Georgia responded, and they found her cowering in a drain.
Georgia was unhurt. She had disappeared while Phillips was bringing her home.
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Boys find live grenade when searching for buried treasure
PACE, Fla. – An 8-year-old boy and his friend found a live, World War II-era hand grenade while searching for buried treasure with a metal detector.
Sidney Mathis and his friend had found nails, bolts and a toy car by sweeping the detector over a field near their home Thursday. But it was their other find that alarmed Sidney’s father, Chris Mathis.
Two members of an Air Force explosives unit took the grenade and destroyed it Friday morning.
301 rare pennies sold off for $10.7 million in Fla. auction
LONG BEACH, Calif. – A penny saved is not necessarily just a penny earned: One man’s collection of rare American cents has turned into a $10.7 million auction windfall.
The collection of 301 cents featured some of the rarest and earliest examples of the American penny, including a cent that was minted for two weeks in 1793.
That coin and a 1794 cent raised hundreds of thousands of dollars, according to Heritage Auction Galleries, which held the sale in Long Beach on Friday night.
Heritage Auction president Greg Rohan said the auction was the biggest ever for a penny collection.