Coughing fit prompts crash
GIRARD, Pa. (AP) – State police say a driver’s coughing fit caused him to crash his pickup into a home in northwestern Pennsylvania. Police in Girard say 63-year-old Lewis Brewer, of East Springfield, wasn’t hurt when his 2004 Ford Ranger hit the house in Springfield Township, Erie County, Saturday afternoon. Police say Brewer told them he began to “cough uncontrollably’’ before his truck went into a ditch, traveled across a yard and hit the house. Police didn’t say how badly the house was damaged. Nobody inside was hurt.
Dog sends bullet into owner’s back
LOS BANOS, Calif. (AP) – One California hunting dog apparently takes the term a bit too literally. Authorities say a central California hunter was wounded when his own dog accidentally sent a bullet into his back. The 53-year-old man was treated at Los Banos (BAH’-nos) Memorial Hospital and released after a few hours. The Merced County Sheriff’s Department says the man and a partner had been hunting near Highway 152 in the Los Banos area Saturday. The man set down his shotgun to retrieve some duck decoys and his female Labrador retriever stepped on it, causing the safety to disengage and the gun to fire, sending a shot into the hunter’s upper back. The names of the man and dog had not been released.
Man dons tutu after bet
DERIDDER, La. (AP) – A DeRidder man who bet against the New Orleans Saints winning the NFC championship didn’t have to eat his words – but did have to eat out, wearing a tutu, a crown, and black-and-gold face paint. Cody James Danielson must also use a photo of himself in that get-up as his profile picture on Facebook for two weeks. As part of the bet with Sarah Gallipeau, she and Danielson’s wife, Sarah chose the restaurant after the Saints beat the Minnesota Vikings for a Super Bowl matchup Feb. 7 against the Indianapolis Colts. Cody Danielson wore the tutu to lunch Thursday at Ryan’s with the women and friends. He also wore a black T-shirt reading “Such An Idiot for not Trusting Sarah.’” The first letter on each line spelled out SAINTS.
Crash turns into pot bust
TUCUMCARI, N.M. (AP) – Tracks in the snow leading from a crashed car to the nearby bridge overpass on New Mexico’s I-40 just didn’t look right to officers. State police say that officers patrolling the stretch near Tucumcari Saturday found that 40-year-old Henry Alan Lowe of El Paso, Texas, had lost control of his sedan and crashed into a snow pile. Then they noticed tracks leading back and forth from the trunk to the bridge. They allege that partially hidden under the overpass were large plastic wrapped bundles and inside was about 238 pounds of raw marijuana with an estimated street value of more than $642,000. Police say Lowe was arrested after treated for a gash to his head.
Lovers fined buffaloes, pig
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) – A news report says a Malaysian court has ordered two lovers to pay a fine of four buffaloes and a pig after they were found guilty of having an illicit affair. The Star newspaper says the Native Court in Penampang district on Borneo island ruled Friday that the man and woman must compensate their communities with the animals, valued at about 6,000 ringgit ($1,800), for their tryst. They were also fined 1,000 ringgit ($300) each. The man’s wife filed a complaint last year after finding her husband in shorts and her colleague in a sarong at the man’s second home. The court rejected their claim that they were just “best friends.’’