Awesome!
Thirteen-year-old Matilda Walden of Bentham, United Kingdom, has broken the Guinness World Record for assembling a Mr. Potato Head, United Press International reported on March 14. Walden put together the iconic toy in just 5.69 seconds. The previous record had been in place for 10 years. Her secret technique? “I had to be joining the nose and mustache together as I picked them up in one hand,” she said. Walden was hoping to raise awareness of Skipton Extended Learning for All, an organization that offers services to children. Walden noted, “I have disabilities, and sometimes find that in other community events I was not welcome and people judge me.” She is thinking about going for the record for assembling a Mr. Potato Head while blindfolded.
Inexplicable
On March 12, a standoff in Bedford County, Pennsylvania, dragged on for 10 hours after Catherine Ann Imler, 57, made an odd appearance around 1:30 p.m. at another resident’s home, WJAC-TV reported. Imler was naked, and she reportedly forcefully entered the home, where she stole the man’s shotgun. As she walked out his back door with the gun, he asked her what she was doing. “It’s my house,” she replied. Imler then returned to her own home. The victim called authorities, who set up a perimeter around Imler’s house but couldn’t extract her until late that evening, when she was taken to UPMC Altoona with self-inflicted injuries from a sword.
Bright Idea
A big night out on March 12 led Leoni Fildes, 34, to a big idea: She would get an Uber from The Church Inn in Salford, United Kingdom, to Ukraine, to “help” the situation there. Fildes admits she had “one too many double pink gins and shots of Sambuca,” the Manchester Evening News reported, and she was saved from her drunken philanthropic tendencies by fiscal realities: Her Uber app reported “insufficient funds” to back the 1,700-mile trip, which would have cost about 4,500 British pounds. (Not for lack of trying, though — Uber attempted to make the transaction nine times.) “I remember when we were looking, we said, ‘Oh, we’ll get the comfort one.’ That’s dearer — the XL one,” Fildes said. “I’m so glad I didn’t have the funds available.”
Oops, I Did It Again
NBC2-TV reported on March 6 that Anthony Antonaras, 38, of Venice, Florida, inexplicably rammed his pickup truck three times into the home of a woman he knows, damaging her garage doors and a window near the front door. When she came outside, Antonaras was sitting in the bed of the truck as “Wrecking Ball” by Miley Cyrus blared from the stereo. He told police that his “foot slipped”; but he also said that the woman is “not a good person” and that the incident was “a message.” Antonaras could be heard screaming expletives while the homeowner was speaking with the 911 dispatcher on the phone. He faces felony charges for criminal mischief and other offenses.
– ANDREWS MCMEEL SYNDICATION
