WEIRD WORLD

HITLER PHONE SOLD:

A telephone used by Adolf Hitler during the Second World War has been sold at auction for $243,000 (£196,000). Andreas Kornfeld, of Alexander Historical Auctions in Chesapeake City, Maryland, said it sold on Sunday afternoon to a person who bid by phone. The auction house does not disclose the names of buyers. Occupying Russian officers gave the phone to a British officer, Brigadier Ralph Rayner, during a visit to Hitler’s bunker in Berlin. The red phone has a Nazi party symbol and Hitler’s name engraved on the back.

‘SUSPICIOUS COWS’:

Police in a Connecticut town have reminded people not to open their doors to “any unfamiliar cattle” after a pair of cows escaped from their pen and were found near the front door of a property a couple of houses away. Sgt Geoffrey Miner said a driver reported seeing the cows walking on the side of a road and in gardens in Suffield. Officers managed to take a photo of the cows before herding them back to their pen. Police posted the photo on Facebook, saying two “suspicious males” were going door-to-door “trying to sell dairy products”. Police said the cows were able to escape duetoafaulty electrical wire fence.

‘BRIEF’ RUN:

Some joggers in Philadelphia were not joking when they said they were going out for a brief run. In briefs, boxers and bras, they ran three-quarters of a mile in a Valentine’s Day-related charity event in aid of sick children.

The annual Cupid’s Undie Run featured 1,000 people in their underwear and little else, except for some body-painted hearts, angels and Cupid’s arrows on their chests. Participants ran through the streets near the city’s sports stadiums.