Oddly enough

ODDLY ENOUGH

Whipped-cream truck crashes outside home

LOS ANGELES

Mark Leon lives in a sweet spot for big rigs in Los Angeles County.

Nine years after a truck hauling chocolate syrup crashed into his mobile home park, another rig hauling 36,000 pounds of whipped cream and sour cream crashed Tuesday just feet from his house.

Authorities say the truck, driven by an unlicensed 16-year-old, was stopped by a stand of trees and a chain-link fence just off Interstate 210. Three people had minor injuries.

The California Highway Patrol says the 16-year-old fell asleep and lost control of the big rig that toppled down an embankment.

Investigators say the teen’s 20-year-old brother got tired and asked for driving help. Two cousins, age 3 and 13, also were in the truck.

People from 6 states charged in robbery

BIRMINGHAM, Ala.

Tourists aren’t what they used to be.

Birmingham police say they have charged six people from six states with robbery after a holdup at a service station. None of the suspects is from Birmingham, and police are unsure what brought them to the city or how they are connected to one another.

Police say the suspects entered the Chevron on Friday and began putting items in their pockets. Police say when the owner tried to stop them, the group began beating and kicking him.

The suspects are: 21-year-old Broderick Johnson of Mobile, Ala.; 20-year-old Thurmon Polk of Detroit; 18-year-old Velvet Farmer of Cleveland; 27-year-old Howard Washington of Los Angeles; 20-year-old Makesonji Dieudonne of New Rochelle, N.Y.; and 33-year-old Keenan Jefferson of Chicago.

Doctor ‘Elvis’ revives marathon runner

LAS VEGAS

It wasn’t blue suede shoes but a pair of sneakers that led a San Francisco doctor dressed as Elvis Presley to a woman who passed out at a Las Vegas restaurant after a marathon.

Claudio Palma tells the Las Vegas Review-Journal he was dressed as the King after Sunday’s Las Vegas Rock ’n’ Roll half-marathon when he performed CPR and resuscitated another runner at the Burger Bar at Mandalay Place.

The 36-year-old was clad in a jumpsuit, sideburns and scarf for the race and may have looked like Presley, but in real life, he’s an anesthesiologist.

Palma says paramedics then arrived, and the woman gave him a weird look and told him she was OK.

He says the incident wasn’t the only heart-stopping one that day: He also got married at a run-through chapel during the race.

Associated Press