SOUTHINGTON, Ohio – An Ohio couple has been repaid for a liquid asset they shared 34 years ago.

Violet and Harold Goff of Southington say a man showed up at their home recently and explained that he’d appeared at their door in 1974 when he was 17 and had run out of gas.

Back then, Harold Goff got a five-gallon can of gasoline for Jeffrey Hardin.

Hardin still lives in the area and told the Goffs the debt had remained in the back of his head. So, he presented them with a plastic, five-gallon container of gas.

Harold Goff notes that he made a good investment, since the gas and container once worth about $5 are now worth $25.

Inmate falls through ceiling into Texas police office

ALTON, Texas – Authorities say an inmate trying to flee a Texas city jail crashed through the ceiling into a police chief’s empty office.

Police say 17-year-old Jesus Albert Suarez Chavez and 22-year-old Roman Orozco Martinez tried to escape through air conditioning ducts of the Alton city jail around 3 a.m. Saturday, but had been spotted by a dispatcher monitoring security video.

One of the inmates fell through the ceiling into the office of Police Chief Baldemar Flores. The second inmate was trying to get into the vent.

Flores said he didn’t know which inmate fell through the ceiling, only that the vents were very small.

Chavez and Martinez are charged with burglary of a vehicle, evading arrest, resisting arrest, assault on a public servant and making a terrorist threat. They are now being held in the Hidalgo County Jail.