Yahoo! News - Garbage Truck Stopped With 2 Tons of Pot: "Thu Feb 26, 8:29 PM ET
SIERRA VISTA, Ariz. - A garbage truck was stopped carrying more than two tons of marijuana north of Huachuca City, a Department of Public Safety official said.
The truck had been driving erratically late Tuesday, said DPS Sgt. Steve Tritz.
'It got my attention,' Tritz said. 'He was driving slow and failing to signal.'
The driver, who identified himself as 28-year-old Brian Rivera Martinez, said he didn't know how to drive the truck.
When a drug-sniffing dog arrived, it alerted authorities to possible narcotics. DPS officers found 4,112 pounds of marijuana bundled in the area where trash would be carried.
Martinez and passenger, Michael Trejo Duran Sr., 38, were arrested on suspicion of transporting and possessing marijuana for sale.
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Information from: Sierra Vista Herald, http://www.svherald.com "
20:36 Posted by David
Airport Screener Sends Self Through X-Ray Machine: "DENVER -- An airport security screener is in trouble for fooling around on the job.
In this case the security worker at Denver International Airport sent himself through an X-ray machine.
Mike Fierberg, spokesman for the Transportation Security Administration, says they have no idea why the guy did it. Fierberg adds the stunt didn't jeopardize the safety of any passengers or planes. But he says X-raying yourself is clearly not acceptable.
The screener, whose name hasn't been released, has been disciplined. Officials say the X-ray incident happened about three months ago.
Copyright 2004 by The Associated Press."
21:00 Posted by David
Yahoo! News - U.S. topless coffee shop gets green light: "Fri Feb 20, 3:58 PM ET
BOSTON (Reuters) - Facing stiff competition from nationwide coffee shop chains, one Maine businessman wants to offer more than just a regular cup of cappuccino to perk up his customers -- so he's hiring topless waitresses.
Normand St Michel submitted an application with the town of Madison, Maine to open a topless coffee bar named the Heavenly Angels Coffee Shop.
'He has the go-ahead as far as the town is concerned,' said Robert Dunphy, the town's code enforcement officer, adding that the project does not violate Madison's obscenity ordinance.
With that hurdle cleared, St Michel now has to make the establishment accessible to disabled customers and compliant with fire safety standards.
And even though city laws do not require the Heavenly Angels to impose an age limit, St Michel has decided to only admit those 18 or over.
'Not everyone wants (the coffee shop) but the age limit makes most everyone happy,' Dunphy said.
The coffee shop is set to open during the summer.
St Michel was not immediately available for comment. "
20:59 Posted by David
Yahoo! News - Woman in Labor Interrupts Pa. Drug Bust: "Fri Feb 20, 4:19 PM ET
MILLVALE, Pa. - The police chief in this western Pennsylvania town left the scene of a drug arrest when the frantic 911 call came: A woman was in labor in rush-hour traffic and was in danger of not getting to the hospital in time.
Chief Dean Girty drove to find the woman on Route 28 around 7 a.m. Thursday and realized she was close to delivering the baby. He put Candice Pilarski in the front seat of his cruiser and sped off. After safely bringing Pilarski to the hospital, he returned to the scene of the drug bust.
'It was a split-second decision, either deliver the baby in front of all these people or get her to the hospital,' Girty said. 'It was close. I could feel the baby's head coming out.'
Pilarski had the baby four minutes after arriving at the hospital.
'If I wasn't in pain, I would have been scared,' she said. 'We were going through red lights, riding in the bus lane on Fifth Avenue in the opposite direction of traffic. He didn't want me to have the baby in the car.' "
20:57 Posted by David
Yahoo! News - Nude Mural on Car to Get G-Rated Retouch: "Fri Feb 20, 2:53 PM ET
INDIANAPOLIS - The owner of a car with a nude woman painted on its trunk is hoping a G-rated version of the dancer satisfies prosecutors.
During a hearing Thursday in Marion Superior Court, a lawyer for Erica Meredith, 25, said his client would have clothes painted on the 3-by-5-foot image of the woman.
The airbrushed paint job on the 1976 Buick sedan depicts a naked woman twirling around a pole while two men in an audience watch.
The car was registered in Meredith's name but actually belonged to her boyfriend, Keyon Johnson, she said.
Meredith was charged with a felony count of disseminating material harmful to minors after she was ticketed during a traffic stop last month near a school. Johnson was not charged.
Marion County Prosecutor Carl Brizzi has said he would drop charges if the image was covered or the car was kept off the street.
Jack Crawford, Meredith's attorney, said the artist who painted the mural would paint clothes on it.
'We suggest that the offensive parts be covered,' Crawford said. "
20:56 Posted by David
Yahoo! News - Man Sentenced for Defecating on Floor: "Fri Feb 20, 2:25 PM ET
SAGINAW, Mich. - A judge made sure the punishment fit the crime when he sentenced a man to clean 100 toilets at the Saginaw County Jail.
Jonathan F. Naessens, 23, pleaded guilty to stealing a firearm from a Richland Township home, but investigators also found human feces in the basement near the window where the burglar entered the house.
Authorities say Naessens defecated on the floor. In addition to the toilet scrubbing, Circuit Judge Fred L. Borchard on Wednesday sentenced the Richland Township man to two years' probation and to pay $389 in restitution to clean the property.
'The sentence is excellent,' Sheriff Charles L. Brown told The Saginaw News. 'What's more disgusting than someone coming into your home and doing this?' "
20:52 Posted by David
Yahoo! News - Americans would pay to watch bin Laden die: "Mon Feb 23, 3:48 PM ET
NEW YORK (Reuters) - One in five Americans would likely pay to watch a televised execution of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden if he were found guilty and sentenced to death but more than a third said executions should not be televised, a poll says.
A national telephone poll of more than 1,000 people aged 18 or older, done for TRIO cable network by Harris Interactive, asked respondents who they would most likely pay to watch executed if executions were shown on pay-per-view television.
Bin Laden, accused of masterminding the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States, was named by 21 percent of those polled. Former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein was named by 11 percent.
Thirty-seven percent of those polled said they did not think executions should be televised.
The poll, conducted from January 24 to January 26 and released on Monday, had a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points. "
20:51 Posted by David
Yahoo! News - Shoplifter caught with trousers down: "Mon Feb 23, 8:32 PM ET
BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese woman unhappy with the trousers she had stolen from a shop may have erred when she took them back to be shortened.
'The woman found the pair of trousers too long for her, and hearing from others that the store alters any clothes they sell free of charge, she went there,' the China Daily said on Tuesday, quoting the Yangtze Evening Post.
'But the store discovered the trousers were a missing pair and held her until she confessed to her theft.'
The newspaper did not say where or when she was caught. "
20:51 Posted by David
Yahoo! News - New York Driver Nabbed While Watching Porn Movie: "Sun Feb 22, 9:55 AM ET
ALBANY, N.Y. (Reuters) - Andre Gainey found out the hard way that in the state of New York it's illegal to drive while watching porn.
Police said the 35-year old man from Clifton Park, New York, was watching a adult movie called 'Chocolate Foam' on Tuesday night while driving his Mercedes Benz in the town of Schenectady when he was spotted by an officer at a stop light.
Police spokesman Pete Frizoni said detectives pulled Gainey over when they saw the movie playing on screens embedded in the car's headrests. When they confronted him, they saw another screen in the passenger-side visor was facing Gainey, allowing him to watch the movie while driving.
The case is thought to be the first of its kind in New York, said Joe Pichi, a spokesman for the for the state's Department of Motor Vehicles.
'Our biggest problem is illegal cell phone use while driving,' Pichi said. 'Drivers should be driving.'
Gainey was charged with a public display of offensive material, driving with a suspended license and driving while watching a television. He compounded his legal woes by giving a false name when he was fingerprinted, prompting police to add a charge of forgery.
He is scheduled to appear in court on March 17. "
20:49 Posted by David
Yahoo! News - Beware of Exploding Beer Bottles: "Mon Feb 23,11:17 AM ET
BEIJING (Reuters) - Beer bottles that exploded in the hot summer weather were one of the biggest health risks Chinese consumers faced last year, Xinhua news agency reported Sunday.
Complaints about food safety rose by nearly 25 percent in 2003 as newly wealthy Chinese consumers looked for quality and spoke out if they were disappointed, Xinhua quoted a leading consumer group as saying.
'Personal injury, foreign matter in food, outdated or undated food and children's food safety were the chief (causes of) complaint,' said Wang Qianhu, director of the China Consumers' Association's complaint and law department.
'...Beer bottle explosions were responsible for most of last summer's consumer injuries,' he added.
Consumer associations across the country received 1,621 complaints about food safety in 2003, up 24.1 percent from 2002, the association said. "
11:55 Posted by David
Yahoo! News - Actress's breasts cut in chainsaw accident: "Wed Feb 11, 6:32 AM ET
BERLIN (Reuters) - A German actress was taken to hospital after an artist injured her breasts while trying to cut open her bra with a chainsaw during a rehearsal for a stage show, she has told a newspaper.
'It was the worst moment of my life. I thought, Sibylle, you're going to die,' the actress, former porn star Sibylle Rauch, 43, told Bild newspaper.
The chainsaw operator, performance artist Marko Koenig, said Rauch was lying down during the rehearsal on Monday and suddenly bent forward just as he was applying the saw to her bra.
'I couldn't pull back the chainsaw quickly enough and cut her breast and stomach. It was terrible,' he told Bild. The hospital in Karlsruhe, southwest Germany, where Rauch was treated declined to give details of her injuries. 'We are not authorised to comment on our patients,' a spokesman said. "
11:49 Posted by David
Yahoo! News - Hundreds of Bats Found in Mall Elevator: "Tue Feb 10, 3:50 PM ET
COLUMBIA, S.C. - Apparently store hours mean little to hundreds of bats that have flocked to an employee elevator at the back of a shopping mall near downtown.
Roughly 350 of the nocturnal mammals have been found so far, said Brian Berrios of Wildlife Solutions, which has been hired to capture the creepy creatures from the elevator's skylight at the Richland Mall.
Mall management has shut down the elevator to keep the bats from spreading to the mall's shopping area, asking employees of a call center inside the mall to use customer entrances.
'We take this very seriously and don't want anybody injured,' said Richland Mall general manager Tim Russell. 'If you encounter a bat, it's one too many. They do startle you.'
The bats were first discovered a week ago, and Russell said the mall should be 'bat free' by Wednesday. "
11:25 Posted by David
Yahoo! News - Typo Changes Ad to 'Brother for Sale': "Wed Feb 11, 4:23 PM ET
VANCOUVER, Wash. - Barbara Bennett wanted to sell her Brother brand sewing machine, so she bought a classified advertisement under 'Miscellaneous' and 'Items under $50' in The Columbian newspaper.
Instead, the words 'sewing machine' were accidentally dropped, leaving a 'BROTHER' for sale ad.
One caller wanted to know if the price was negotiable. Another, upon hearing what was really for sale, said merely, 'Thank you,' and hung up.
Bennett, 41, a customer service representative, said Tuesday she has two brothers in California and is not putting either on the block. Newspaper officials agreed to run a corrected ad.
'It's OK, I needed a good laugh,' Bennett said. 'I had minor heart surgery on Friday, so it helps.' "
11:22 Posted by David
Yahoo! News - It Shouldn't Be Hard to Spot Her: "Thu Feb 12, 8:22 AM ET
ROME (Reuters) - An Italian woman who had her breasts enlarged with the biggest silicone implants available is being hunted by police after she skipped out on the 7,500 euro ($9,500) plastic surgery bill.
Police say they have few leads as the woman used a false name but are relying on a photograph and her unusually large bra size to find her, a newspaper reported Thursday.
The woman did a runner from the exclusive private hospital in Rome a day after the two-hour operation which doubled her bust size, her plastic surgeon Jamal Salhi told the Corriere della Sera Thursday.
'Unfortunately this kind of fraud isn't that unusual,' Salhi lamented. "
11:21 Posted by David
Yahoo! News - Bummer...: "Thu Feb 12, 8:19 AM ET
ATHENS (Reuters) - An angry husband who came across a video of his wife having sex with her lover on the Internet called the police who arrested a man suspected of filming a string of people without their consent, police said Thursday.
The 25-year-old cheating wife had been secretly filmed and the video was posted on the net when the man stumbled across it. 'The husband saw his wife and immediately called a prosecutor to get his wife's clip off the net,' a police source said.
After checking the suspect's computers, officers discovered hundreds of erotic clips filmed without consent which were posted on a free access site. The suspect was charged with violating a 'sensitive personal information' act. "
16:35 Posted by David
Yahoo! News - Cell Doors Left Unlocked Twice at Prison: "Fri Jan 30, 9:53 AM ET
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (Reuters) - For the second time since December, cell doors at the Arkansas prison housing the state's death row inmates were accidentally unlocked, prison officials said on Thursday.
No one left their cells when a guard unlocked 26 doors on death row at Varner prison, about 70 miles southeast of Little Rock, for three minutes on Wednesday.
'They (the prisoners) sat there. They didn't move. But the death row inmates are the best behaved inmates in prison,' said Dina Tyler, spokeswoman for the Arkansas prison system.
In December, an electrical fault opened all doors in a cellblock housing violent prisoners such as murderers and rapists. Dozens of inmates ventured into a corridor and one of them was killed.
An inmate is expected to be charged with the killing within days, Tyler said.
The guard responsible for the latest death row incident has been fired."
16:31 Posted by David
Yahoo! News - Thief Fakes Heart Attack to Outwit Police: "Thu Jan 22, 8:13 AM ET
BERLIN (Reuters) - A crafty German thief escaped police after his arrest by faking a heart attack and fleeing when his handcuffs were removed for treatment, authorities in the western city of Duesseldorf said Wednesday.
'He started complaining of chest pains in custody and said he was having a heart attack,' a police spokeswoman said. 'It seems he gave quite a convincing performance, and you can't be too careful in these situations.'
The 40-year-old's condition improved dramatically as soon as his hands were freed for a scan in hospital and he ran half naked to the nearest emergency exit.
A subsequent police search found no trace of the man. "
23:37 Posted by David
Yahoo! News - 3 Accused of Putting Hairpieces on Cows: "Thu Feb 5, 8:07 AM ET
COLUMBUS, Ohio - Three livestock exhibitors at last year's Ohio State Fair have been disqualified for allegedly outfitting their Holstein cows with hairpieces.
State Fair inspectors said the three glued or painted hair from another part of the animal or from another animal to create straighter backs on the cows and enhance their appearance in the show ring.
Kreg Krebs and his brother Kenneth of Fredericksburg, and Scott Long of Clayton, Mich., could be required to forfeit all winnings, said Department of Agriculture spokeswoman Melanie Wilt. The winnings had been withheld by fair officials.
Wilt said state inspectors at the fair discovered the fake hair when the cows were leaving the show ring on Aug. 10.
The men have 30 days to request a hearing in which they could present their cases to an independent hearing officer. "
23:35 Posted by David
Yahoo! News - German Man Teaches His Dog Nazi Salute: "Thu Feb 5,11:10 AM ET
BERLIN - A man who taught his dog the stiff-arm Nazi salute was given a 13-month suspended sentence Thursday for shouting 'Sieg Heil' in public and wearing a T-shirt with a picture of Adolf Hitler on it.
A Berlin administrative court found the 54-year-old man, who was only identified as Ronald T., guilty of displaying Nazi symbols and insulting a policeman last March.
Police had stopped the man after he was heard shouting the Nazi slogan. While the police watched, the man also commanded his dog, named Adolf, to raise its right paw upon hearing the command 'Do the salute.' Authorities initially pressed charges for training the dog to perform the salute, but they were later dropped.
Displaying Nazi symbols in public is a crime in Germany under laws meant to prevent any recurrence of Nazism. "
23:30 Posted by David
Hotel Criticized for Charging for Water : : "Fri Feb 6, 9:46 AM ET
LONDON - Shades of Basil Fawlty. A hotelier who wrote to a client explaing why she couldn't have a free glass of tap water was showered with bad publicity Friday, being compared in some British newspapers to John Cleese's ill-tempered hotel keeper.
Sally Burchell, a guest at the Atlantic Hotel in Newquay, southwest England, complained to managing director Anthony Cobley that she was refused a glass of tap water with her 18-pound (US$32) meal.
Staff told her she would have to pay 80 pence (US$1.40) for a small bottle of mineral water or 2 pounds (US$3.60) for 1 liter.
Cobley wrote back: 'I buy water from the South West Water company. I buy the glasses that the water is served in. I buy the ice that goes into the water and I buy the labor to serve the water.
'I provide the luxury surroundings for the water to be drunk in and again pay for the labor and washing materials to wash the glass after you have used it, and you think that I should provide all of this free of charge!
'As regards your comment that you will not be returning to the Atlantic Hotel ever again, leaves me to say that customers who only drink water and complain about paying for it, I can certainly do without.'
'This is like a letter from Basil Fawlty,' The Daily Telegraph quoted Burchell as saying.
'There were a lot of us there and we spent a lot of mone"y on drinks between us. Some people were even staying the night so it seemed a little tight to charge me for water."
Martin Couchman, deputy chief executive of the British Hospitality Association, said Cobley was wrong.
"Looking after customers and making them feel happy is a major part of hospitality. One hopes that as part of customer after-care people who write letters do so in such a way as to make customers feel as happy as possible," he said.
Debbie Smith, head of marketing at the Cornwall Tourist Board, said complaints "ought to be an opportunity to review service and to see what improvements can be made.
"This is certainly not an approach to customer care that I would advocate."
23:24 Posted by David
Yahoo! News - Calif. Police Return Marijuana to Men: "Fri Feb 6,10:36 AM ET
SANTA CRUZ, Calif. - A judge ordered police to return marijuana to the two men it was confiscated from.
Police pulled over Leo Beus on Sept. 22 because his car had tinted windows. Beus, 47, and his friend, Jon Balesteri, 54, had purchased 18 ounces of marijuana a day earlier at the Oakland Cannabis Buyers Club, said their attorney, Ben Rice.
They didn't have their medical prescriptions with them, but police allowed them to go home and retrieve them, Beus said. However, their $3,000-plus worth of marijuana was confiscated for evidence.
Beus and Balesteri were charged with transporting and possessing marijuana for sale, but the charges were later dropped.
California allows people to grow, smoke or use medical marijuana with a doctor's recommendation.
Rice said Superior Court Judge Art Danner ordered the pot returned because of the December federal appeals court ruling that a congressional act outlawing marijuana can not apply in states with such laws. "
23:21 Posted by David
Yahoo! News - Man Lives with Dead Brother for 18 Months: "Thu Feb 5, 7:39 AM ET
LONDON (Reuters) - A British retiree did not notice his brother had been dead for 18 months despite sharing a mobile home with him.
When Herbert Silver, 72, finally called police and told them his brother George, 75, had died, they went to the bachelors' home expecting to find a body. Instead they found a skeleton, British newspapers reported Thursday.
'I admit that I didn't go into his room for a few hours, a few days...well quite a while actually,' Herbert Silver told the Daily Telegraph.
Silver said he had thought it a 'bit odd' when his brother failed to emerge from his bedroom in the tiny home they shared in Blissford, southern England, but told the Daily Mirror:
'George liked to keep himself to himself, and to be honest so do I.' A postmortem indicated George Silver had been dead for up to 18 months."
23:20 Posted by David
Yahoo! News - Blast Blows Roof Off Public Toilet: "Thu Feb 5, 7:58 AM ET
LONDON (Reuters) - An underground explosion blew the roof off a public toilet on Wednesday in the central English city of Stoke-on-Trent.
'Fortunately nobody was inside at the time, but it is right in the city center, near our night clubs and cultural quarter,' said Terry James, spokesman for the city council.
He said the explosion, which happened about 4 a.m., had been caused by a high voltage power cable running beneath the 'superloo,' an automated toilet.
The electricity supplier was investigating the incident, James said. "
23:19 Posted by David
Yahoo! News - Priest Bagged for Growing Pot in Rectory: "Fri Feb 6, 4:39 PM ET
AKRON, Ohio - A Roman Catholic priest accused of growing marijuana in his church living quarters pleaded innocent Friday.
The Rev. Richard A. Arko, 40, said nothing in Summit County Magistrate Court. He is free on a $3,000 signature bond.
He was charged Jan. 22 with illegal cultivation of marijuana, a fifth-degree felony. On Wednesday, an indictment also charged him with possession of criminal tools and illegal use or possession of drug paraphernalia.
If convicted, Arko faces one to two years in jail and up to $5,250 in fines.
Police seized 35 pots of marijuana plants, rolling papers, a rolling machine, grinder and scissors from the Prince of Peace Church rectory, prosecutors say.
After the arrest, church officials put the priest on paid leave and said Arko won't be allowed to return to his duties in the parish after the case is resolved.
Norton police arrested Arko after they searched the living quarters in Barberton, about eight miles southwest of Akron. "
23:18 Posted by David
Yahoo! News - Overturned Van Spills 700 Live Rodents: "Fri Feb 6, 3:49 PM ET
PEARISBURG, Va. - A cargo van filled with cages carrying more than 700 gerbils, rats, mice and other rodents overturned Thursday, sending the animals scurrying onto a highway and sparking a bizarre large-scale rescue of the small animals.
The accident occurred when the van, driven by Thomas Marcinko of Zanesville, Ohio, hit an icy patch of U.S. 460 and ran off the left side of the road, hit a guardrail, overturned and slid onto the shoulder.
The animals, being transported in plastic cages, made a break for freedom.
'We caught probably 20 or 25 outside the vehicle. We caught another 25 inside the vehicle,' said Bill Davis, one of eight members of the Giles County Lifesaving Squad who responded to a call for help. 'Then we realized they were everywhere.'
Marcinko walked away from the accident, and once he was checked out, the search for the critters was on.
'As cold as it is outside, we couldn't just leave them,' Davis said. 'I just started throwing them in back of the ambulance.' "
23:17 Posted by David
: "Thu Feb 5, 7:46 AM ET
PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - A second-grade girl from Pittsburgh was suspended this week from her public elementary school for saying the word 'hell' to a boy in her class.
But 7-year-old Brandy McKenith says she was only warning the boy about the eternal comeuppance he could face for saying: 'I swear to God.'
'I said, 'You're going to go to hell for swearing to God,'' Brandy was quoted as saying in an article that appeared on the Web site of the Pittsburgh Tribune Review on Wednesday.
School officials were unavailable for comment. A Pittsburgh Public Schools spokeswoman told the newspaper that the student code prohibits profanity but does not provide a clear definition of what profanity is.
The girl's parents, who said they believed their daughter's version of the story, were flabbergasted by the suspension and complained to the school principal.
'Kids are bringing guns and knives to school. ... They've got dope. And we're worried about 'hell'?' said her father, Wayne McKenith.
Meanwhile, the incident drew the attention of civil liberties experts as far away as New York.
'There was no threat and the word was being used in its intended way, not in a vulgar manner,' civil liberties attorney Christopher Murray said in a statement distributed by his New York law firm. "
23:17 Posted by David
: "Fri Feb 6,11:05 AM ET
DALLAS (Reuters) - An East Texas woman struck oil a strange way when she came home to find her toilet gushing with the bubblin' crude.
Liela LeTourneau returned from her work as a nurse on Monday to find oil gushing out of everything in her house connected to the water drainage lines, including her kitchen sink and toilet.
The floor of her Longview residence was drenched with a thick coating of what locals call "Texas Tea."
Texas state and Longview city officials said on Thursday they believe that a mix-up in sewer lines connected to the house might be the cause of the oil spill.
"There was this black (ooze) coming out from my house. I thought, 'What have I left on? What has my son left on that's spilled over?'" LeTourneau told the local daily Longview News-Journal. She had moved into a rental home due to the oil spill and was not immediately available for comment.
Longview city officials said they believe the trouble was due to the residence being connected to a line used to dispose of saltwater instead of a sewage line. Saltwater disposal lines are used in the oil production process as a conduit to drain off liquids associated with that process -- mostly saltwater.
The saltwater disposal line became backed up, and oil seeped out of that line, turning the LeTourneau home into an oil patch, they said.
"I was always proud to have an oil derrick in my back yard. Every Texan should have one," she told the paper. "Now, I don't know."
23:13 Posted by David
Yahoo! News - Wedding Guest Cow Wanders Into Bank: "Fri Feb 6,10:39 AM ET
BERLIN (Reuters) - A Friesian cow took a detour from a wedding where she was meant to be a guest of honor, wandering into a German bank where she was caught on security cameras sidling up to the tellers.
Top German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on Friday published four robber-style photos of the cow, named Paula, strolling into the Sparkasse savings bank in Wunstorf, a small rural town in northern Germany.
'The cow entered, made an elegant turn and walked right back out,' a bank spokeswoman said. 'It was an extraordinary experience, but it was over very quickly.'
The cow was supposed to be taking part in a nearby wedding ceremony when it wandered into the bank. When farmers in the rural region marry, the new bride traditionally milks a cow to prove her skills in the homestead economy. "
23:12 Posted by David
Yahoo! News - Okay, You Be the Look-Out...: "Fri Feb 6,10:52 AM ET
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (Reuters) - Police in the central Argentine city of Cordoba foiled a predawn street hold-up on Thursday -- and were staggered to find one of the assailants was blind.
'When a police car arrived at the scene, the pair took off running. What caught the attention of the officer was that they were running holding hands,' Police Commissioner Luis Ceballos told Reuters. 'On apprehending them, the officer found one of them was blind.'
Police recovered a fire-arm from the scene, and are still trying to work out what was going through the blind robber's mind. It was not immediately clear which of the pair was wielding the gun.
'We don't know what they were thinking,' Ceballos said. 'This is the first time I've seen anything like this in my life.' "
