IT MUST BE TRUE… I read it in the tabloids

A drunk Turkish man spent hours helping a search party look for a missing person – who turned out to be him. Relatives of Beyhan Mutlu, 50, sounded the alarm after he failed to return home from drinks with friends, having wandered into a forest near his home in the northwestern Bursa province. And when Mutlu stumbled upon the resulting search party, he joined them – realising who it was searching for only after hearing his name being called. “Who are we looking for?” he asked. “I am here.”

The Danish artist Jens Haaning was loaned £60,000 in banknotes by The Kunsten Museum of Modern Art in Aalborg, to reproduce his 2007 work An Average Danish Annual Income, which featured the notes fixed to canvas, along with another similar work. But inspiration struck, and Haaning pocketed the money instead, then sent back two empty frames titled Take the Money and Run – a protest, he said, against “the working conditions of artists”. The museum opted to show the frames anyway – but threatened legal action if the cash isn’t returned soon.

About 20 motorists followed a tanker truck for miles in the mistaken belief it was carrying fuel to a petrol station. Johnny Anderson was taking 44 tonnes of mortar to a building site in Northamptonshire when he realised he was being trailed. Arriving at his destination, he heard horns and saw a line of traffic backed up behind him. “The man at the front [...] actually said: ‘You could have stopped and told us you weren’t a petrol tanker,’” he said. “I couldn’t believe it.”