Missing cat that sparked JD Vance's Haitian pet-snacking hoax turns up (original) (raw)

The Mirror's US editor Christopher Bucktin reports on the best of the most bizarre it-could-only-happen-in-the-USA stories in his The Buck Stops Here column. This week, the missing cat at the centre of JD Vance's bizarre story about Haitian immigrants snatching pets in Springfield, Ohio, has turned up…

US senator JD Vance speaks to a crowd during a rally at the Berks County Fairgrounds about illegal immigration and makes repeated claims about Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio

America’s worst-ever Vice Presidential nominee continues to outdo himself.

Republican JD Vance’s claim that Haitian immigrants are snatching pets for dinner has hit yet another cringeworthy snag.

To defend the bizarre hoax, his campaign pointed to a police report about a woman in Springfield, Ohio, whose cat mysteriously disappeared in August.

They suggested this was proof that the town’s pets are in peril.

That was until it turned out that the creature, Miss Sassy, wasn’t part of some underground feline smorgasbord but simply hiding from her owner, Anne Kilgore, and was alive and well.

America’s National Toy Hall of Fame is floating the idea of inducting balloons.

Ben & Jerry’s ice cream has created a flavour for the Democratic Presidential nominee. It’s called Kamala’s Coconut Jubilee.

It was inspired by Kamala Harris’s viral question “You think you just fell out of a coconut tree?”

Cops in New York have arrested two teenagers they say took an empty subway train on a brief joyride before crashing it and fleeing.

Surveillance photos released show a girl dressed all in pink, including a pink shower cap, and a male companion in a blue tank top.

The pair, both 17, have been charged with criminal mischief and reckless endangerment.

A Kentucky man learned the hard way that no good deed goes unpunished after letting friends stay in his garage while they fixed their car – only to be the one left without a home.

Daniel Toma said what started as a favour turned into a three-month nightmare with his guests Amy Davis and her boyfriend Tyler Sencuk staging a full-blown takeover.

The pair have settled in, installed cable TV and even changed the locks.

Daniel said: “I just want this nightmare to end. I’ve been homeless the last few days.”

Californian Sandra Hernandez-Cazares, who advocated stricter drink-drive laws after two of her children were killed by an over-the-limit motorist, has been charged with manslaughter.

Officials said they found her drunk in an SUV along with the body of her young daughter, who died locked inside their vehicle after temperatures topped 100C.

For the second time in two years, Florida’s Chelsea White has been arrested for domestic battery using the same weapon – a sex toy.