Oddly enough

Oddly enough

Police: Store robber dropped all but $1

PITTSBURGH

Pittsburgh police are searching for a butterfingered convenience-store robber who got away with seven packs of cigarettes but dropped all but $1 of the money he stole.

Police say the man robbed the Uni-Mart in the city’s Troy Hill section. He wore a ski mask and ball cap and pointed a handgun at a clerk who gave him $66, according to authorities.

A customer was in the store at the time, but nobody was hurt in the heist. Detectives were reviewing surveillance video but did not make any immediate arrests in the robbery.

Sculptures show fish snagging the anglers

BREMERTON, Wash.

A Washington town on Puget Sound has installed two sculptures that celebrate the popular Pacific Northwest pastime of fishing.

But if images of fishermen reeling in their catch come to mind, think again. These 14-foot-tall pieces depict the fish snagging the angler.

The $250,000 sculpture project was completed at a downtown intersection after some second-guessing by the Bremerton City Council, which wanted to see the fishermen catching the fish. But the council relented and accepted the original design from Communication Arts of Boulder, Colo.

The sculptures were manufactured by Dillon Works of Mukilteo and installed on opposite street corners. The funding came from a state grant.

Town can’t unload house near landfill

NORTHAMPTON, Mass.

A Massachusetts town has lowered the price of a home it’s trying to sell because there’s barely been a sniff of interest.

The four-bedroom, 3,000-square-foot home on 2.4 acres is right next to Northampton’s landfill. When potential buyers find out about it, they back away.

Northampton’s Board of Public Works bought the home as part of a legal settlement with the previous owners, who frequently complained about the landfill’s odor.

The home went on the market about a year ago for nearly $479,000. When it didn’t sell, the price was lowered to $375,000. Board Chairman Terry Culhane said the price was slashed again to $290,000 last week.

Culhane tells The Republican of Springfield he’d be surprised if someone doesn’t bite now.

Pooper scooper finds $58 in doggie doo

ST. LOUIS

This is why your mother says to wash your hands after handling money.

An employee of DoodyCalls Pet Waste Removal in St. Louis says he recently found $58 packed in dog poop, then returned the cash to the pooch’s owner.

But Steve Wilson says he sanitized the bills first.

Associated Press