Weird News

• Kobayashi downs record 337 wings at Pa. Wing Bowl
  Competitive-eating champ Takeru Kobayashi (tah-kah-roo koh-bee-yah-shee) conquered Philadelphia's annual gustatory gorge-fest by eating 337 chicken wings in a half-hour before a crowd of nearly 20,000 at Wing Bowl XX.

• Sheep herding Swedish bunny becomes online hit
  Champis the bunny doesn't only hop - he also knows how to herd his masters' flock of sheep, possibly having picked up the skill after watching trained dogs do the job.

• Pet elk denied re-entry to Pennsylvania from W.Va.
  A runaway elk can't go home to Pennsylvania, even if it wanted to.

• Wrong-number call helps Ohio woman having stroke
  A woman who called the wrong number when she suffered a stroke still found help a couple of time zones away.

• Man admits to jumping on backs of student athletes
  A 250-pound man with a history of jumping on the backs of student athletes in the Pacific Northwest has pleaded guilty to assault.

• Mont. man starts police chase as part of wishlist
  A 55-year-old Montana man who says he "always wanted" to be part of a police chase can check that off his bucket list.

• Inmate adds pig image to Vt. police cruiser decals
  A prison inmate who makes stationery and license plates pulled a fast one on state police by adding the image of a pig to the state decal on their cruisers.

• Lions apparently not enough to keep intruders out
  With 120 lions, tigers and other big cats on the grounds, the owner of a Colorado refuge didn't think he needed a security system.

• After traffic stop, Ohio woman gives birth in car
  A woman's speeding got her a warning from an Ohio state trooper but wasn't enough to keep her grandchild from being born in her car.

• Toothless Pa. bank robber says she needed dentures
  A woman who appeared to not have any teeth in surveillance photos from a bank robbery last month has confessed, apologized and told police she planned the heist because she needed the money for dentures.

• Albatross found in LA freed to fly home to Hawaii
  A large seabird found in the back of a pickup truck in Los Angeles has been released to begin its long flight home across the Pacific.

• Forest Service to Jesus: You can stay _ for now
  A mountaintop Jesus statue can stay at a ski resort in the western U.S. state of Montana - for now.

• Man rescued after being stuck in NM mud for 3 days
  A homeless man who was stuck in thick mud near the Rio Grande river in Albuquerque for three days was rescued Saturday after some high school students on a field trip heard him yelling for help, authorities said.

• NY inmate guilty of seeking $890M in tax refunds
  A jury has convicted a New York prison inmate of falsely filing tax returns seeking $890 million in refunds.

• Museum: Rare coin may be Roman brothel token
  The Museum of London is displaying a coin found by the River Thames that may have been used nearly 2,000 years ago as a "brothel token" in Roman London.

• Artist plans to bury 727 jetliner in Calif. desert
  A Swiss artist plans to bury an intact Boeing 727 jetliner in California's Mojave Desert and build a tourist tunnel to give visitors a chance to view the underground project.

• Potty-room pilfering: Auto flushers stolen in Ohio
  A restroom rip-off in central Ohio has automatic flushers disappearing from the bathrooms at restaurants and other businesses.

• Wyoming 19-year-old fined $200 for doughnut theft
  A 19-year-old college student accused of swiping a doughnut in Wyoming is going to be paying a pretty penny for that pastry.

• Embarrassing 'SHCOOL' sign replaced in NYC
  An embarrassing misspelling of "school" is gone from the street outside a New York City school building.

• Ohio orangutan gets newer birth control device
  A Cleveland Clinic women's health specialist has made a house call at the zoo to demonstrate how to fit an orangutan with a newer brand of implanted birth-control device.

• AZ inmate arrested for refusing to leave lockup
  Most people can't wait to leave jail, but one northern Arizona inmate has been charged with trespassing after refusing to leave the Coconino County lockup.

• Beaver to stay despite toppling trees in city park
  A beaver that has settled in a Maryland city park can stay despite chewing down trees.

• Ore. man released from prison arrested in bank job
  Authorities say it was a busy morning for a man released from an Oregon state prison. After a bus ride home to Eugene on a state-paid ticket, they say he held up a bank at 10:02 a.m. Tuesday and was back in custody three minutes later.

• Book' em Danno: Turkey busts into Deadwood library
  Authorities in Deadwood, S.D., investigating an apparent break-in at a public library were surprised to discover the culprit: a 20-plus-pound turkey.

• Embarrassing 'SHCOOL' sign replaced in NYC
  An embarrassing misspelling of "school" is gone from the street outside a New York City school building.