It must be true...

I read it in the tabloids

■ A retired Indian couple are suing their son and daughter-in-law, demanding that they deliver a grandchild within a year or pay them 50 million rupees (around $675,000). “We need a grandchild, but these people have an attitude that they don’t think about us,” said co-plaintiff Sanjeev Ranjan Prasad, a 61-year-old retired government officer. Prasad said he had spent his “life’s earnings” on his only child’s upbringing and education, only to end up grandchildless six years after his son’s marriage. “I feel very unlucky,” he said.

■ The Parisian luxury fashion house Balenciaga is marketing a new line of “full destroyed” sneakers priced at $1,850 a pair. The scuffed, ripped, dirty footwear—produced in a limited edition of 100 pairs— costs more than double the non-distressed version of the company’s high-top sneakers, which can be had at the bargain price of $625 a pair. The distressed sneakers were widely mocked online; one Twitter critic said they resemble the “torn-up Converse my ma begged me to throw out when I was in high school.”

■ Police in Port Arthur, Texas, are seeking a man who broke into a family’s home, and then mowed the front and back lawns before fleeing. A security camera video captured the suspect taking the lawn mower out of the garage and filling it with gas before performing the unlikely chore. Police arriving at the scene saw the fleeing suspect dragging the mower, which he later abandoned in an alley as he escaped.