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Yahoo! News: Odd News Tue, 14 Oct 2008 18:02:32 GMT |
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Prosthetic eye gives horse a shot at show career
(AP)
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 AP - A miniature horse has been given a second chance for a career as a show horse ? thanks to a prosthetic eye. The 65-pound horse, named KBuck, was born June 1 at Lil Chums Miniature Horse Farm in Lawton and lost its eye a few days after birth. Owner Kelsey Chumbley, 12, said she suspects the young horse was the victim of a swift kick from its mother.
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Missouri grandmother's curiosity squashes scam
(AP)
- AP - Delpha Speak has 13 grandchildren and she didn't think it was completely implausible that one of her grandsons-in-law would call her to say he was in trouble. The 72-year-old retiree could tell something was wrong, and she wanted to do whatever she could to help.
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Cops: Man tries to pay for fast food meal with pot
(AP)
- AP - A McDonald's cashier called 911 after a Vero Beach drive-thru customer allegedly offered to pay for his meal with marijuana. The Indian River County Sheriff's Office said the cashier called Monday with a description of the vehicle the suspect had been riding in.
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Man wins contest with 1,528-pound pumpkin
(AP)
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 AP - Thad Starr's giant pumpkin really began putting on weight in August ? a lot of weight.
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Woman changes name to a URL to protest dissections
(AP)
- AP - You can call her CutoutDissection.com, Cutout for short, but just don't call her Jennifer.
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More than 100 sick as too many cooks spoil broth
(Reuters)
- Reuters - Some 170 wedding banquet guests were rushed to hospital in north China when powdered rust remover was added to the pot instead of salt after they all decided it needed added flavor, Chinese media said.
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Don't eat those nuts, German police warn thieves
(Reuters)
- Reuters - Thieves who stole 300 kg (660 lbs) of hazelnuts in Germany have been urgently warned not to eat them.
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Official undone by tight trouser crackdown
(Reuters)
- Reuters - A senior official in South Sudan who ordered a crackdown on young women wearing tight trousers has been sacked, officials said Saturday.
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China's Wang to get help after karaoke club fight
(Reuters)
- Reuters - China's national table tennis team will give Olympic medalist Wang Hao counseling after he reportedly got into a fight with a security guard for trying to stop him from urinating outside a karaoke club.
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106-year-old Obama-supporting nun shocked by fame
(Reuters)
- Reuters - A 106-year-old American nun who became a minor celebrity after she appeared on television saying she is voting for Barack Obama is "startled and a bit anguished" by all the attention she is getting, her order said Monday.
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Three face court over kangaroo T-shirts
(Reuters)
- Reuters - Three people who showed up at Singapore's supreme court in T-shirts printed with a kangaroo dressed in a judge's gown will be brought to court for contempt, Singapore's attorney general said on Tuesday.
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Rabbit invasion shuts Mandela museum
(Reuters)
- Reuters - South African's Robben Island museum will be closed while authorities cull a colony of rabbits that has invaded the site where Nelson Mandela was jailed.
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Sons of Russian and U.S. astronauts unite in orbit
(Reuters)
- Reuters - The sons of a Russian cosmonaut and a U.S. astronaut met in space Tuesday when spaceman Sergei Volkov welcomed American Richard Garriott on board the International Space Station.
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China football flap prompts fan to become monk
(Reuters)
- Reuters - The most famous fan of a Chinese football club has decided to become a monk after the squad withdrew from the country's professional league last month in protest at the suspension of its top player.
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Man allegedly goes for wild ride on stolen combine
(AP)
- AP - A Minnesota man is under arrest after allegedly stealing a combine and taking it for drunken ride through several yards and crashing into a garage. The man was charged with first offense operating while intoxicated, third-degree burglary, third-degree theft and criminal mischief as a Class C felony.
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German village remembers Prussia's Scottish general
(Reuters)
- Reuters - A German village was on Saturday unveiling a monument to the Scottish-born Prussian Field Marshall James Keith, in a rare act of remembrance in a country that has spend decades distancing itself from its military past.
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Police say 'hot kielbasa' was meant for snorting
(AP)
- AP - A Brooklyn butcher shop worker called his specialty "hot kielbasa" ? for snorting, not eating. Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said the kielbasa was really cocaine ? not the Polish sausage sold in a popular meat market.
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Iceland for sale -- collect in person
(Reuters)
- Reuters - Great scenery and wildlife but financial situation in need of repair -- collect in person.
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Polar bear slips into moat playing with toy at zoo
(AP)
- AP - A playful polar bear pawing at a toy lost his balance and slipped into a moat at the Milwaukee County Zoo.
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Nicaragua's Ortega says crisis is God punishing U.S.
(Reuters)
- Reuters - Nicaragua's leftist President Daniel Ortega, a U.S. foe since the Cold War, said God was punishing the United States with the financial crisis for trying to impose its economic principles on poor countries.
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