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Car recovered after 37 years
A Corvette sports car stolen when it was brand new in New York 37 years ago has been recovered in California and will be returned to its rightful owner, authorities said on Monday. The 1968 car, which vanished from Alan Poster's garage in the borough of Queens on Jan. 22, 1969, was identified as stolen as it was being loaded on a container ship for Sweden last November, the US Department of Homeland Security said. The car had recently been purchased for US$10,000 by a man in Sweden who was unaware it had been stolen nearly four decades earlier.
Since Poster's insurance at the time did not cover the Corvette's theft and he was never compensated, he is entitled to get it back.
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Horse takes chilly dip
A horse that got loose and broke through a fence wound up taking a dip in a neighbor's ice-covered swimming pool. Fortunately for the horse named Dancer, the pool also had a cover over it when the accident happened on Sunday in Genesee, Wisconsin. "He was caught up in the pool's cover which was probably a good thing because it kept him from going to the deep end," horse owner Gayle Loiselle said. The pool's owner called for help, and local firefighters used netting to hoist the horse out. The horse, believed to have been in the water at least an hour and a half, was treated for scrapes and sore muscles.
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