“Forest Chump”

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2012/06/german-forest-boy-mystery-solved-dutch-youth-made-it-up/1#.T9tvWxc192A

After almost a year, the young man who had become famous as Germany’s “Forest Boy,” claiming to have lived in a tent in the woods for 5 years, has admitted that he made the whole thing up.  Police had been unable to see the forest through the trees.

The 20-year-old from the Netherlands will now be known as “The Lying Dutchman.”

Berlin Police had been suspicious of the young man’s story, but they had no ways of making him talk.

Dutch authorities are now wondering what happened to his sister, who was last seen in the forest on her way to a house made of gingerbread.

“Backpack Is Back”

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2010-11-19-homeless19_ST_N.htm?csp=hf

An Arizona homeless man returned a backpack he found containing $3,300 in cash and a laptop computer at a light-rail station. For leaving a parcel at a rail station, the owner of the backpack is now being investigated by Arizona as a possible Hispanic.

The homeless man said that if he had kept the money, he wouldn’t be able to sleep at night. And there’s nothing worse than tossing and turning all night on a park bench.