Oddly enough…
by Charlotte Coyle
Latest news on the strange, quirky and just plain odd.
Missing German kangaroo finally captured
After a crippling chase through the German Alps, the missing kangaroo Skippi was returned to his home at a petting zoo in southern Germany on Monday.
Skippi, who had been missing since early August, sprained his leg during the chase.
He was eventually captured in a cornfield near Leutkirch im Allegaeu, almost 10 miles from the petting zoo, Ravensburg police said.
Although there had been several sightings of Skippi, the kangaroo managed to elude authorities for weeks.
-Yahoo news
Tennessee strippers not fooled by fake money
A Tennessee man used his computer to make fake $100 bills to buy lap dances at a strip club, authorities said.
Damon Armagost pleaded guilty to counterfeiting charges on Friday, after strippers at Déjà vu in Nashville dobbed him in following the incident in April.
Authorities said the strippers called the police because they were suspicious of the $600 they received from Armagost.
When confronted by the police Armagost eventually admitted he had downloaded the $100 image from a web site and printed 14 of the bills, prosecutors said.
Armagost will be sentenced on November 5.
-Yahoo news
Man leaves dead mother in armchair for two years
A German man left his dead mother seated in her favourite armchair because he could not face organising her funeral, Fuerstenfeldbruck police said on Friday.
The woman died in the chair of natural causes at her and her son’s shared home, in July 2005, police said.
Neighbours recently alerted police about the corpse. The man told police he could not bear to move his mother, and he hadn’t entered the room she was seated in since she died.
-Reuters
Venezuela to change time zone by 30 minutes
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has redesigned his country’s flag and its coat of arms in his drive to create a socialist state.
And now he wants to move the country’s time zone in a bid to offer a more equitable distribution of sunlight.
Venezuela will turn clocks back by 30 minutes in September as it switches time zones, a government official said on Thursday.
Science and Technology Minister Hector Navarro said the government is also planning to announce additional measures to “make more effective use of time.”
- Reuters