Oddly Enough

Oddly Enough

Police: Drunk man tried to revive dead opossum

PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa.

Police say they charged a Pennsylvania man with public drunkenness after he was seen trying to resuscitate a dead opossum along a highway.

State police in Punxsutawney say several witnesses saw 55-year-old Donald Wolfe, of Brookville, near the animal.

Police arrested him along the highway, Route 36, in Oliver Township, about 65 miles northeast of Pittsburgh.

The Associated Press could not locate a home telephone number for Wolfe.

A state-police news release did not specify how Wolfe was reportedly trying to revive the roadkill. The arresting trooper did not immediately return calls for comment.

Wily coyote evades NYC police capture for 2 days

NEW YORK

A wily coyote evaded New York City police for two days before being nabbed in a parking garage. It was the fourth coyote sighting in Manhattan this year.

The animal first eluded police capture Wednesday near the Holland Tunnel. It was spotted Thursday afternoon on the West Side Highway, and police chased it to an open-air garage in Tribeca.

Officers cornered the coyote, sedated it with a dart and then carted it off to the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. It wasn’t immediately clear where it would go next.

Last month, three coyotes were spotted on the campus of Columbia University. Earlier this month, one was seen in Chelsea.

College says new e-mail font will save money

GREEN BAY, Wis.

A Wisconsin college has found a new way to cut costs with e-mail — by changing the font.

The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay has switched the default font on its e-mail system from Arial to Century Gothic. It says that though the change sounds minor, it will save money on ink when students print e-mails in the new font.

Diane Blohowiak is the school’s director of computing. She says the new font uses about 30 percent less ink than the previous one.

That could add up to real savings, since the cost of printer ink works out to about $10,000 per gallon.

Octuplets mom accepts offer to help save home

LOS ANGELES

Just because Nadya Suleman’s an octomom doesn’t mean she wants your dog or cat to become one, too.

Her lawyer said last week that Suleman, who is fighting to keep her house from foreclosure, has agreed to allow People For the Ethical Treatment of Animals to put a sign in her front yard proclaiming, “Don’t Let Your Dog or Cat Become an Octomom. Always Spay or Neuter.”

Peta says it offered Suleman $5,000 and a month’s supply of veggie burgers and hot dogs in exchange for placing the sign in front of her house in La Habra.

Associated Press