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Did you hear this story?
A Michigan man has landed in jail all because a game of Monopoly went awry!
The 54 year old man was playing the game this past Saturday night with a female friend.
During the game he tried to buy Park Place and Boardwalk from her, but when she refused he got angry and hit her in the head and broke her glasses!
Chill out man! It’s just a game.
He’s been arrested and charged with misdemeanor assault and battery.
Imagine driving on the freeway behind a car that happened to lose all four of it’s wheels at the same time!
Scary thought huh?
Well this actually happened in early June to a driver in Switzerland!
He was driving his car along a busy motorway when his car lost all four wheels causing his vehicle to come to an immediate and likely jarring halt!
Apparently the cars tires had just been changed from winter tires to summer tires and the wrong bolts were used to secure the new tires! Luckily no one was injured when the accident occurred!
A series of paintings believed to be by a young Adolf Hitler fetched nearly 98,000 pounds ($143,000) including premium at an auction in Britain, well in excess of pre-sale estimates.
Among them was a watercolor of a pensive figure sitting at the end of a stone bridge with the letters “A.H.” written beside it, which sold for 10,000 pounds.
The work is dated 1908, at a time when Hitler was a struggling artist in Vienna. The figure’s face lacks a nose and mouth, as well the trademark square mustache.
Hitler applied to art school in Vienna but was rejected, and went on to join the army and fight in World War One.
An Alpine landscape painted in oils fetched 13,500 pounds.
“I was completely gobsmacked to be honest,” said Richard Westwood-Brookes, a historical documents expert who ran Thursday’s sale for Mullock’s Specialist Auctioneers and Valuers.
He had expected the 12 watercolors, oil painting and two other works on offer to fetch between 400 and 1,000 pounds each.
“I put their artistic merit as on a par with a good, competent amateur,” Westwood-Brookes told Reuters.
“But people do not want to acquire these for their artistic merit. They just want to have something that belonged to someone famous from history.”
He said he believed the works, all signed “A. Hitler,” were genuine. An Austrian expert issued certificates of authenticity for the pictures, which once belonged to a British soldier who was stationed in Essen, Germany, in 1945.
But Westwood-Brookes conceded that no one could be sure.
Two years ago, 21 paintings attributed to Hitler were sold for 118,000 pounds or more than twice the pre-sale estimate, by an auction house in England.
The authenticity of items associated with Hitler has long been a bone of contention. In 1983, German magazine Stern published what it said were extracts from Hitler’s diaries. They were later exposed as forgeries.
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