Miracle in the make-up bag
Anna writes: "After truly believing my special necklace (aptly a silver anchor) had plopped into the water at Te Kouma Wharf in Coromandel while bait-fishing, my chivalrous boyfriend Nick went back at low tide, with my 4-year-old's diving mask and floated around in the stinky water amongst the fish carcasses looking for my necklace - much to the amusement of the mussel barge workers who had just docked at the wharf. Not perturbed by the huge local stingray, which swooped in for a closer look, he continued. An onlooker went up to her nearby bach to get a proper mask and snorkel and came back with her three teenage boys - one even joined in the search. Unfortunately, the necklace was not found, but miraculously turned up in my make-up bag this morning."
Flushing out the artists
Austrian artist Alexander Riegler installed a one-way mirror in the ladies' room at a cafe in Vienna to allow men's room users to peer inside (in the name of "art"). Riegler said he wanted to start a "discussion of voyeurism and surveillance". Men could see only the faces of women standing at the lavatories, and he said then that in January, he would reverse the process and allow women to peer into the men's rooms. (The cafe had posted a sign advising restroom users that they would be part of an "art" project.) (Source: News of the Weird)
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