Odd News From YAHOO!
It's the law: No sagging pants in Chicago suburb (AP)
AP - Be careful if you have saggy pants in the south Chicago suburb of Lynwood. Village leaders have passed an ordinance that would levy $25 fines against anyone showing three inches or more of their underwear in public.
Conjoined barn swallows cause stir in Arkansas (AP)
AP - It's an Arkansas bird story that at first might be hard to swallow. A pair of conjoined barn swallows, attached at the hip by skin and possibly muscle tissue, will be sent to the Smithsonian Institution for study and examination, Arkansas wildlife officials said Friday. If confirmed, officials say it could prove to be an incredibly rare find — a set of conjoined twins among birds.
Bees swarm motorists on N.J. Turnpike (AP)
AP - Drivers on the New Jersey Turnpike have to cope every day with traffic jams, pollution and even the occasional deer.
Blessed are the boxers, altered for wounded troops (AP)
AP - Blessed are the boxer shorts.
Putrid whale carcass parts stink up Oahu street (AP)
AP - Getting the rotting corpse of a dead sperm whale off Oahu's North Shore was only the start of the problem.
Italian party takes aim at carry-outs (Reuters)
Reuters - Diners hungry for Chinese carry-out or Middle Eastern kebabs in Italy could have their choices limited under a regional law proposed by the anti-immigrant Northern League on Thursday.
Two-thirds of Egyptian men harass women? (Reuters)
Reuters - Nearly two-thirds of Egyptian men admit to having sexually harassed women in the most populous Arab country, and a majority say women themselves are to blame for their maltreatment, a survey showed Thursday.
Man claims Subway baked knife into sandwich (Reuters)
Reuters - A New York man claimed in a lawsuit filed on Wednesday that he found a knife with a 7-inch (18-cm) blade baked into the bread of his foot-long "Cold Cut Trio" Subway sandwich.
Air hostess picks up chocolate bar, wins space trip (Reuters)
Reuters - A French air hostess will become one of
Europe's pioneer space tourists after picking a chocolate
wrapper out of the rubbish and finding a winning number in a
competition to fly to the upper reaches of the earth's
atmosphere.
Firefighters threaten strike over weighty issue (Reuters)
Reuters - British firefighters have
threatened to go on strike after bosses fired a veteran
Scottish colleague for being overweight.
Royal foiled as Casey toils (Reuters)
Reuters - Britain's Paul Casey recruited
royalty to help find a lost ball during Saturday's
wind-affected British Open third round ... to no avail.
Dutch workers recover money flushed down toilet (Reuters)
Reuters - A Dutch woman who accidentally
flushed 900 euros (714 pounds) down the toilet got her money
back after workers fished the bank notes from the drain.
Voters weigh renaming sewage plant after Bush (Reuters)
Reuters - San Francisco voters, never
thrilled with George W. Bush, may give the U.S. president a
parting shot in November by naming a sewage plant after him.
Loud music makes customers drink faster (Reuters)
Reuters - Customers of bars that play loud music drink more quickly and in fewer gulps, French researchers said on Friday.
Sex, blood and baby names traded for free U.S. gas (Reuters)
Reuters - Some U.S. motorists sick of getting
clobbered at the pump seem willing to do just about anything
for free fuel, from giving up the right to name their children
to stealing from day-care centres to donating blood.
Woman attacked by kangaroo saved by pet dog (AP)
AP - An elderly woman was attacked by a large kangaroo on a farm in Australia and was lucky to be alive after a pet dog leapt to her aid, her son said Saturday.
Last tsar leads Stalin in poll on greatest Russian (Reuters)
Reuters - Ninety years after Bolshevik
revolutionaries shot dead the last tsar, Russians are fighting
over who to lionise: Tsar Nicholas II or Josef Stalin.
NY man loses prosthetic leg while skydiving (AP)
AP - An upstate New York man says he's still upbeat despite losing the same leg twice. Scott Listemann told the Poughkeepsie Journal that he laughs about losing his foot and lower leg "both the first time and the second time."
Works by pop art masters taken from Swedish museum (Reuters)
Reuters - Thieves broke into a museum near Stockholm overnight and stole five works by American pop artists Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, the manager said on Friday.
Jim Smiths gather to honor Jim Smiths (AP)
AP - Jim Smith says he's never met a Jim Smith he didn't like. And he's met more than most people. That's because the 71-year-old is in Pittsburgh for the four-day Jim Smith Society Fun Fest which runs through Sunday, The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reported Friday.