oddly enough

April 23, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

oddly enough

Cows go roaming on Ohio State campus

COLUMBUS

Two cows got loose on the Ohio State University campus, leading some students to cut classes to watch a roundup that lasted more than 90 minutes.

Police say the pair of Belted Galloway beef cows got away Wednesday afternoon as their owner was trying to take them into the university’s veterinary medical center to have their hooves trimmed.

They made their way onto a soccer field, where one of them was lassoed as students cheered “Ol !”

But the other ran across traffic on a bridge and settled in under a grove of trees. Its flight was ended by a Columbus Zoo veterinarian who was called to the scene by police and fired a tranquilizer dart.

The owner took the cows back home. A police officer was treated for a shoulder injury.

Wrong number leads diplomat to NJ school

WEST ORANGE, N.J.

Talk about diplomacy.

The Zambian ambassador to the United Nations made a speech Wednesday at New Jersey’s West Orange High School to make amends for dialing the wrong phone number.

In the fall, Ambassador Lazarous Kapambwe was trying to reach a diplomat from Sierra Leone. But the number he dialed was one digit off. He ended up calling Logan Svitzer, a student who was sitting in his U.S. history class at the school.

His teacher, Robbin Sweeney, was so annoyed that she called the number and got the ambassador. She thought it was a prank — and spent 10 minutes on the phone with him to verify who he was.

Kapambwe spoke at the school to make up for the inconvenience. He told students about Zambia and urged them to consider diplomatic service as a career.

Police: Prostitute propositioned chief

FOSTORIA, Ohio

Authorities in Ohio say a prostitute picked the wrong person to proposition: a police chief.

Police in Fostoria say the woman approached an unmarked police car in a parking lot and told the man inside that she had what he needed.

It turns out the driver was the police chief in the northwest Ohio town.

Chief John McGuire says he told the woman he was going to a bank to get money and instead picked up another officer to hide in the back seat.

When they returned, the pair made the arrest Tuesday afternoon.

Catherine Tate pleaded no contest Thursday morning to soliciting prostitution and two drug-related charges and was sentenced to a total of 15 days in jail and $250 in fines. Court records show she had two prior convictions for prostitution.