At 12:32 PM 6/23/02, rob wrote: >Thief can't resist lure of the bottle >Associated Press >TEXAS CITY -- A man trying to burglarize a Southeast Texas home got a little >sidetracked. > >Grady Wayne Dennis, 37, apparently stumbled onto a bottle of Crown Royal >Canadian whiskey while attempting to load piles of loot from the home. >Dennis was sitting in a living room chair intoxicated when police found him. > >Officers entered the house and discovered stacks of items ready to be moved >out, according to the Texas City Sun. > >Dennis, a parolee through 2011, was being held at Galveston County Jail on >$100,000 bond. > >All of the stolen property was recovered except a handgun and a rifle.
. . . and the contents of the bottle. >***************************************************************** > >Indian villagers marry off two donkeys >Associated Press > >NEW DELHI, India -- The drought-plagued residents of a small village in >southern India organized a ceremonial wedding for two donkeys to appease the >Hindu god of rain, a news report said Thursday. > >Dressed up like a bride and groom, the donkeys were escorted to a temple in >the village of Sakkayanayakanur in Tamil Nadu state on Wednesday, the Press >Trust of India reported. I know a lot of parents who are sure their child married a jackass . . . >*********************************************************** > >'Tooth phone' could take bite out of cellulars >Reuters News Service > >LONDON - British engineers say they have invented a revolutionary tooth >implant that works like a mobile phone and would not be out of place in a >James Bond spy movie. > >The 'tooth phone,' designed by James Auger and Jimmy Loizeau, consists of a >tiny vibrator and a radio wave receiver implanted into a tooth during >routine dental surgery. > >The implant does not yet have its own microchip installed, but Auger says >the technology is tried and tested, and a fully functional phone could be >put together in no time at all. > >"With the current size of microchips, this is feasible. They are now small >enough to implant in the tooth," he told Reuters Tuesday. > >Sound, which comes into the tooth as a digital radio signal, is transferred >to the inner ear by bone resonance, meaning information can be received >anywhere and at any time -- and nobody else can listen in. > >The invention raises the prospects of financial traders receiving the latest >stock market bulletins while at the movies and politicians tuning in to >secret briefings from advisers while being quizzed by opponents (1) But how do you dial it? (2) In the middle of a business meeting, a man winces and cries out in pain, reflexively grabbing his jaw. "Toothache?" asks the person sitting next to him. "No, I just tried to dial the office and got the FAX machine instead . . . " >**************************************************************** > >Thwarting moose, biologists instead light fire >Reuters News Service > >******************************************************************* > >Elephant talks unchaperoned walk through town >Associated Press > >MENOMONIE, Wis. -- An elephant made an early exit from a circus performance >and headed down Main Street, walking about two miles through the city before >being corralled. > >"All of a sudden the elephant doing a performance went over the ring and >right through the center ring," said Shirley Kistner, who was attending the >circus Monday with her 6-year-old granddaughter, Kaitlyn. > >"People in the stands and everybody kind of scattered, and out the door it >went." > >After Mary the elephant broke loose at the Dunn County Recreation Park, the >fire department responded with lights and sirens, prompting the 6-year-old >elephant and her mother, 21-year-old Tory, to begin running in opposite >directions, officials said. > >Tory was quickly recaptured, but Mary wandered through the business district >of Menomonie and the University of Wisconsin-Stout campus until authorities >managed to block her way, Police Chief Dennis Beety said. > >"People were just dumbfounded," firefighter Tim Koleski said. "It was >amazing." > >Elephant trainer Billy Morris used Tory to calm Mary and got both elephants >loaded onto a semitrailer truck to take them back to the circus. Maybe they were looking for the moose . . . >**************************************************************** > >You can run, but you can't hide with alligators >Associated Press > >STUART, Fla. -- Sheriff's deputies didn't mince words during an early >morning standoff with five wanted teen-agers hiding in a pond. > >"You ought to be more afraid of the alligators," deputies yelled early >Monday, shining a flashlight into the eyes of two alligators nearby in the >water. "It's alligator mating season." > >The standoff quickly ended. > >Martin County sheriff's deputies, who had surrounded the teen-agers, >arrested them on charges ranging from grand theft auto to resisting arrest >without violence. However, the deputies were unable to figure out how to handcuff the teen-agers, who were reported in fair condition at a local hospital awaiting hand-replacement surgery as soon as the alligators respond to the extra-strength laxative given them . . . >**************************************************************** > >Rancher bets the farm on miniature cattle >Associated Press > >ROCKWELL, Iowa -- Dustin Pillard is betting his farm on compact cows. > >Pillard has 50 tiny cows on his northern Iowa farm, all about 3 feet tall. >He's hoping they'll catch on as pets, and so far inquiries have come in from >as far as Europe, Mexico and Argentina. > >"I like them," said Pillard, 30. "If nobody else does, that doesn't really >bother me. We're breeding just for the novelty end of it." > >The smallest full-grown animal is a 3-year-old bull that's 33 inches tall >and weighs 320 pounds. The largest, a mature bull, is 35 inches tall and 400 >pounds. > >Pillard thinks interest for the cattle, which start at about $1,000, is >growing. And the more people know, the more interest he sees. > >"If they saw a rodeo bull that was only three feet tall, I'd think they'd >have to have one. That's our hope, anyway." Also, people in apartments with no place for a freezer can now buy a whole side of beef . . . -- Ronn! :) Rimshot Maru
