Jörg Lukat, 59, police chief of Bochum, received touching mail. A 31-year-old inmate thanked the police for the time in prison. In a handwritten letter he described how a change of heart had come about there, he now wanted to “make a clean new beginning”. The man, against whom an arrest warrant had been issued for fraud, was arrested by two Bochum officials in the summer while he was out with his young son. He especially thanked these officers for treating him so “carefully and kindly” in front of his child. “It was probably necessary for me to see what it is like here in order to appreciate freedom,” wrote the inmate. The background of his actions was his gambling addiction, outside he had never seen it before. If he is well managed, he can leave prison in early 2022.
Jimmy Kimmel, 54, US presenter, had a dicey Thanksgiving day. He accidentally burned a few hairs while roasting turkey. A scorched hairline is clearly visible under his cap on a selfie he shared. “Happy Thanksgiving everyone,” wrote Kimmel. “Try not to burn your hair and eyebrows while lighting the stove.”
Nevertheless, he didn’t have to go without the food, another picture shows a crispy turkey. Kimmel’s eldest daughter Katie, 30, commented on Instagram, “Again?” To which the presenter replied, “Yep. It’s a holiday tradition now.” Kimmel had already reported a mishap on US Independence Day last year. At that time he triggered a “huge explosion” on his gas grill that scorched his beard, eyebrows and eyelashes.
Moritz Bleibtreu, 50, actor, longs for rest – that is sometimes the best help. “I think we have now reached such a point in the Corona debate,” said Bleibtreu in an interview with the Catholic News Agency. “That has nothing to do with negating the seriousness of the situation or wanting to throw in the towel. But sometimes it just doesn’t help to continue discussing.” The actor drew parallels with the behavior of couples in a relationship crisis. There it likes to say: “We have to discuss this and if you leave now, you don’t care.” However, that is not true, so Bleibtreu. “Actually, it would be good if both of them were quiet for two days and then sat down again.”
Matthias Maurer, 51, astronaut from Saarland, would like to have as many arms as an octopus. He’s been in space on the ISS for two weeks, and weightlessness is apparently still causing him problems. “Unfortunately, as a beginner, it still happens too often to me that I open pockets too wide and then the entire contents suddenly float out in all directions,” he writes in the image-Newspaper. After all these years of waiting and intensive preparation, however, he now feels very happy and liberated. But at the same time he is under pressure to perform, “because I’m not here for fun and the many experiments have to be done carefully”. Unfortunately, this is not that easy in weightlessness.