The Beverly Wilshire: All Shook Up

EBay magazine reports that someone paid $4,600 for this item at a recent auction of Elvis memorabilia:

A $695 bill from the Beverly Wilshire Hotel for “damage to Suite 850, including broken sofa, broken dining room chair, seven chipped/scratched dining room chairs and a broken leg on a drum table.”

Did Elvis knock the furniture over during a desperate search for the suite’s mini-fridge? OK, I know what you’re saying: Don’t be cruel.

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TALK ABOUT A BAD GOLF LIE: A friend told Gene Walsh about a golfer at an L.A.-area country club who hit an errant shot that broke the large window of an adjacent luxury home. As the golfer approached the house, a woman rushed out and shouted, “I just bought this house and my real estate agent told me your golf club had only good players.” Walsh’s friend said that a week later, a “For Sale” sign had popped up at the house.

THE WEIRD, WEIRD WORLD OF ANIMALS: Featured today are an indoor cat that seems to have lived many more than nine lives (spotted by Rita Ratcliffe); an adoption offer of some “living” dogs--you know, the kind that are more likely to obey commands (from Gert Honeyman); and what sounds like a real circuit rider of a preacher (from Antony Evans).

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SUNBURNS AND RED PLANETS: I won’t believe that scientist’s assertion that there once was an ocean on Mars until Huntington Beach’s shrine to board-riders officially changes its name to the Intergalactic Surfing Museum.

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