Further drought-shaming from California, where Tom Selleck has been accused of stealing more than a dozen tankerloads of water from a public hydrant to keep his ranch verdant.
Everything’s bigger in America, innit? Over here, it’s just people putting a hanky over the receiver to rat on their neighbour for using a sprinkler on their rockery. In this case, the Calleguas Municipal Water District reportedly spent $22,000 (£14,300) on a private investigator to record the alleged thefts.
Magnum PI tailed by another PI – it all sounds like a classic episode of Magnum PI. Things don’t look great for our mustachioed hero at this precise moment – in fact, I’d have thought the best bet would be for Selleck to convince the court that he’s only the caretaker of this property, which is in fact owned by the disembodied voice of Orson Welles.
