Eagle journeys 200 miles to find former owner
An eagle made a 200-mile trek back to its former owner.
After being sold for $5,000 by Titus Wardle to a fellow bird enthusiast, Lucy, a three-year-old African tawny, went missing soon after it was transported to the new owner. Two weeks later, the eagle turned up at its former home.
“I was flying my hawk and looked around and there was Lucy sitting on a dry stone wall,” Wardle said. “I couldn’t believe it.”
Wardle was surprised that the eagle was able to travel so far.
“I have been involved in falconry from the age of nine but the furthest I have known them to stray is about 10 miles.”
Wardle has decided to keep Lucy and has returned the $5,000 he received for the bird.
“Lucy obviously likes it up here and is going to stay,” he said. “It was a huge shock to say the least when I found her again, or should I say when she found me. I was sad to see her go, so it was nice that she felt the same. How could I give her back?”
Artist creates meat art
Belgian artist Jan Fabre’s “Temples of Meat” exhibition, made out of steak, mince and bacon, will be on display for three days at the Museum of Modern Art in Ghent.
The exhibition includes a coat made of steaks and a tent of bacon with sleeping bags made out of steak.
“Meat is a very erotic material,” Fabre said. “A lot of my work is about the cult of decay and death.
“I also loved to create something that will be destroyed after three days. It’s a lesson in modesty for every artist who confesses his love for eternity.”
Wrecked Ferrari caused by pretty woman
German Alphons Edberg, 33, crashed a Ferrari during a test drive after trying to impress a woman walking by the side of the road.
Edberg was driving a Ferrari 360 Modena, which he was considering buying.
Police say the inexperienced driver lost control after speeding up to impress the woman. He crashed the car into a tree, a road sign and a fence before being stopped by a lamppost.
The car was a totaled and Edberg is currently in the hospital being treated for head injuries.
-Compiled from wire reports