Bill and Susan Hosking couldn’t get a refund from a posh country club after their daughter Katie called off her wedding 12 days before the big day – so they threw a party for the homeless.
Guests danced to a deejay and dined on beef, salmon, shrimp and fettuccine at the $9,000 bash in Everett, Wash., then, “they packed up all the leftover food and we got to bring it back to the shelter,” said homeless advocate Carol Oliva.
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A Chilean panhandler has an infantile way of begging for change – he dresses up like a baby in diapers and bib.
Juan Patricio Cuevas Muñoz, 34, says he uses the money to buy baby food and milk, which he drinks from a baby’s bottle. “[People] love and admire me. They give me money to buy all the things a baby needs to survive,” he says.
Our question is: Who changes him?
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While we’re in South America, it’s Eau de Cuisine, in Argentina where a restaurant is adding designer perfumes to its dishes.
Dishes at Sifones and Dragones in Buenos Aires include oysters with Anais Anais, Chanel No. 5 ice cream and a chocolate mousse with raw ham and Jean Paul Gaultier’s Le Male.
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A London performance artist says he’s highlighting water conservation – by pouring 4 million gallons of water down the drain.
Mark McGowan, 37, is leaving his tap on at full blast for a year at a cost of $28,000, but insists, “This will save water by highlighting the waste in homes when people brush their teeth, wash vegetables or shave with the tap running.”
Officials say he’s all wet and may order him to turn the water off.
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A lunch meeting between a leading parliamentarian in Belgium and counterparts from Iran was canceled because the beer-loving Belgian could not stomach a ban on alcohol.
Herman De Croo said the Iranians, who as Muslims do not drink alcohol, had wanted their hosts to do the same at the Brussels summit, but “even for the tolerant Herman De Croo, that was a bridge too far!”