According to CBS News, an anonymous (almost certainly green and broom-straddling) donor has offered a $1 million reward for a pair of Dorothy’s ruby slippers stolen from a Minnesota museum in 2005.
A Michigan man who says he tipped federal authorities off to Osama bin Laden's Pakistani hideout in 2003, eight years before the raid, wants his $25 million reward. U.S. officials say it's impossible because the compound wasn't constructed until 2005.
When producer/singer Ryan Leslie had his laptop stolen on tour in Germany last October, he offered a $1 million reward. But the guy who found it says he still hasn't paid up, and now he's suing for $1 million.
It seems so long ago that America was enthralled with the misadventures of 19-year-old Colton Harris-Moore, the "Barefoot Bandit" who became famous for stealing airplanes, boats and cars — many times without wearing any shoes. But the public eventually turned on him, and he was arrested in the Bahamas last summer…
Doug and Sara Cannon are a Canadian couple who lost their Bernese mountain dog, Molly Jane, last week. They're so desperate to get the pet back that they're offering to name their firstborn child after whoever finds her. Watch inside.
The Securities and Exchange Commission has set up a huge new $452 million fund for whistleblowers in the finance industry. As the saying goes: If you see something (or your shady co-workers doing something) say something! You could get paid.
Remember Florida Pastor Terry Jones, the guy who planned to burn the Koran on 9/11 but then called it off? He just won a car from a New Jersey dealership for not burning the book.
Conservative activist or news aggregator or whatever he calls himself Andrew Breitbart wants to expose the "Democrat-Media Complex" and will pay a $100,000 bounty to whomever can get him the full archives of the private (mostly) liberal listserve, JournoList.
Speaking of the worst shows on television: Bombshell "Bombshell" McGee and Jamie Jungers have been offered a reality show: Called "Celebrity Cheaters" it would "catch celebrity cheaters with their pants down." And the cycle begins anew. [TMZ]
