Wacky News
Roses are red...and they taste good, too!
Source: NBC
Ecuador has long been a major producer of flowers, now marketers are exploring a new idea--roses on dinner plates, instead of in vases.
Restaurants from New York to Beijing are trying to attract customers with novelty dishes. Many of those dishes contain organic rose petals grown in Ecuador. In Quito, a chef at the Zazu restaurant says his customers like dishes with roses. Per Se in New York and El Bulli in Barcelona have developed dishes with roses.
The roses are grown i…
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Teen accidentally texts sheriff to buy pot
Source: Associated Press
General rule of thumb: when looking to buy marijuana, don't text the sheriff. Authorities said a Helena teen sent out a text message last week in search of pot, but instead of contacting the drug dealer, he hit a wrong number and inadvertently sent the message to Lewis and Clark County Sheriff Leo Dutton.
The text read, "Hey Dawg, do you have a $20 I can buy right now?"
Dutton told the Helena Independent Record he initially thought it was a joke, but he quickly realized it was… Click to Read More
Homeless man, soaking in hot tub, calls 911 for cocoa
Source: Associated Press
A homeless man who called 911 from the hot tub of a suburban Portland home and asked for towels, hot chocolate and a hug got arrested for trespassing instead.
Beaverton police say Mark Eskelsen called 911 from his cell phone, identified himself as "the sheriff of Washington County," and asked for medical help. He later admitted he wasn't the sheriff but informed the dispatcher he'd been "yelling for about an hour and a half."
The man said in his Sunday morning call that he'd b… Click to Read More
Busted pot growers mistake wardens for suppliers
Source: Associated Press
California wildlife officials say two men are in custody after a group of marijuana growers started to toss bags full of pot into a pickup truck belonging to game wardens they mistook for their suppliers.
State Department of Fish and Game spokesman Pat Foy says two wardens in Tehama County were looking for deer poachers Monday night in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest when they heard footsteps behind them.
They turned and saw five men hauling large military-style duffel bags… Click to Read More
Mileage jump has couple wondering where car's been
Source: Associated Press
A couple who left their car parked in a long-term lot near Kennedy Airport during a trip to California were trying to figure out what their car has been doing without them. Mimi and Ulrich Gunthart said their car odometer reading jumped by 724 miles while they were out of town. Ulrich Gunthart said he was "flabbergasted" when he saw the number. Another surprise: when they returned to the car and started it up, a music CD came on at full volume.
David Menter, a regional manager for Avi… Click to Read More
Lion cubs going to the dogs in Colorado Play Video
Source: NBC
Dogs and cats are known to be enemies, but at a Colorado animal sanctuary near Keensberg, two lion cubs' survival is in the paws of a pack of rescue dogs.
Butchie the Bulldog and Wally the cat are teachers of a pair of homeless cubs who were only a few months old when they were found by Canadian police during a drug raid.
The mission: to get the cubs into one of the two Lion Prides resident there, but they can't join right away.
"The biggest part of the problem with th… Click to Read More
Hero kitty saves 97-year-old woman from pit bulls
Source: NBC
Sophie Thomas may own the world's bravest cat. The 97-year-old Harrison, Michigan resident was working in her garden recently when four growling pit bulls surrounded her. One of the dogs lunged at her, biting her on the arm.
Sophie screamed and struck back, and as she did her cat Tiger jumped into the fray. Tiger then bolted for the nearby garage. The dogs chased the cat, giving Sophie a chance to escape into her house.
The cat survived unharmed.
The dogs are quarantin… Click to Read More
Forklift removes 600 lb. woman from apartment
Source: Associated Press
A 603-pound woman believed to be the heaviest in Thailand left her apartment for the first time in three years with the help of Bangkok city hall and a forklift.
Neighbors of Umnuayporn Tongprapai contacted the Bangkok Metropolitan Authority when they learned she needed medical attention to remove a tumor in her right leg.
Bangkok's media-savvy governor Sukhumbhand Paribatra summoned camera crews to document the event, which involved engineers, demolition crews, rescue workers… Click to Read More
Wildlife cam photographs hovering lights
Source: NBC
A motion-activated camera at a Fort Worth family's favorite hunting spot is capturing shots of mysterious objects.
Lisa Brock-Piekarski's game camera is supposed to take pictures of the deer on her Archer City hunting lease, but the pictures show something she can't explain.
"What I see looks almost like a Frisbee," she said. "You see several lights going around, and they're all symmetrical and lit up, and it just looks like an object in the sky."
Brock-Piekarski is he… Click to Read More
Alligator spotted in Chicago River
Source: NBC
The Chicago River is beginning to resemble the Everglades. For the second time in a month an alligator has been spotted sunning himself along the banks of the North Branch of the Chicago River.
The most recent gator is a little less shy, coming into view of neighbors and wildlife experts while taking a lazy swim down the river early in the day.
The gator is 3-5 feet in long.
"He was kind of hiding under a rock and it looked like he was eating something under water," sa… Click to Read More
