Weird News

Star Trek home bankrupts fan

A Star Trek fan has filed for bankruptcy after spending about $21,000 to turn his apartment into the Voyager starship.
Tony Alleyne’s apartment in Hinckley, England, has molded walls, touch-panel blue lighting and a life-size model of the show’s transporter room.
Alleyne built a command console, reshaped windows to resemble portholes and set up vertical lights so he can be “beamed up.”
He had been planning on going into business after Trekkies learned about the home and began paying him to convert their homes.
He took out two huge loans and ran up debts of about $175,000 on 14 credit cards marketing his idea and paying for the merchandise.
Alleyne, who was divorced from his wife after he replaced their fridge with a “warp coil” said: “I was convinced Trekkies all over the world would want a house like mine and pay me to do it.
“I’m still proud of what I created but it’s been a financial disaster.”

Man finds Stradivarius on chicken coop

An elderly Hungarian is set to become a millionaire after finding a Stradivarius violin hidden above his chicken coop.
Imre Horvath, 68, makes a living from the poultry and eggs he sells from his home.
He believes the violin was hidden in the roof space by his musician father, Zoltan, before he went off to fight in World War II, where he was killed.
Horvath said he had no use for the instrument and had taken it to an expert in Debrecen to have it valued because it looked like it might have been valuable.
“They were very excited, but sent me to the capital to have their findings checked,” he said, “and they confirmed the violin was made by the famous 17th century Italian instrument maker Antonio Stradivari.”
“I was delighted but then terrified because I have nowhere I can keep the violin in my little house, I just want to sell it as soon as possible and put the money in the bank. Then I can relax.”
Only about 650 genuine Stradivarius violins are believed to exist today and one recently sold in the U.S. for almost $2 million.

Fishing lake stolen

Polish police are hunting poachers who stole a bulldozer and used it to fill a huge fishing lake with dirt.
As the six-foot deep lake gradually filled with dirt, thousands of fish were left floundering in just a few inches of water.
The poachers then picked up all the fish and took them.
Owner Edward Kurylo said he thought it was a joke when, anglers who had paid for licenses to fish in the lake, told him they could not find it anymore.