Whiskey-minder slips
Patricia Hill once owned 104 bottles of Old Farm Pure Rye Whiskey which was distilled in 1912 and valued at US$102,400 ($128,500). It was found under a staircase in a large property she bought in Pittsburgh. Hill put the bottles in the basement while the main floors were being renovated. Meanwhile, John Saunders, the caretaker who lived in the basement, was expected to safeguard the bottles, but appears to have drunk all four cases of whiskey within about a year. Although he denied consuming the vintage alcohol, his DNA was found on the bottles and he was charged. Saunders' lawyer told the court his client is waiting for a liver transplant.
Cool status symbol little use
The business website Quartz reported that a popular consumer item in North Korea is the refrigerator, made in China and increasingly available as a reward to top performers among civil servants and other elites. The appliances, however, cannot reliably store food because the country's electric grid is so frequently offline and the fridges are mostly just status symbols. One item Quartz says often gets displayed in the refrigerator: books. (Source: News of the Weird)
Leftover-filching denied
