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oddly enough

Cow tied to guardrail on Connecticut highway

MANCHESTER, Conn.

Yes, that was a cow tied to a guardrail on Interstate 84 in Connecticut.

State police say a motorist was forced to pull to the side of the westbound lanes Wednesday morning in Vernon after the cow somehow damaged the walls of the trailer in which it was being transported.

The cow was tied to the guardrail for about 40 minutes, while the motorist made repairs. It was gone by 9:40 a.m.

Lt. Paul Vance, a state police spokesman, said the cow was a curiosity but did not cause any major traffic problems.

Oh, Christmas tree!

AKRON

A second-straight day of Christmas-tree trouble in one Ohio city has left a worker injured. A piece of equipment tumbled in Akron on Wednesday as crews tried to load a donated blue spruce for the city’s downtown holiday celebration.

A worker injured an ankle jumping from the toppling vehicle. The Akron Beacon Journal reported that utility crews were called to secure fallen wires in the Northeast Ohio city. On Tuesday, another blue spruce donated for Akron’s holiday display snapped as it was moved by workers.

Pa. man lights joint to celebrate child’s birth

UNIONTOWN, Pa

Police say a new father faces drug charges because he lit up a marijuana joint instead of a cigar to celebrate his child’s birth at a western Pennsylvania hospital.

Police aren’t identifying the man found smoking the pot in a designated smoking area of Uniontown Hospital on Tuesday morning but say he’ll face marijuana-possession charges.

Uniontown police Sgt. Jonathan Grabiak told the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review that a nurse smelled the marijuana when she took a cigarette break in the same area, and a hospital security guard called police about 3:20 a.m.

Grabiak said the man told him, “I’m having a baby and wanted to get a buzz” and then pulled a bag of marijuana from his shoe.

Looking to buy drugs, man calls cops by mistake

CLARENCE, N.Y.

A New York man looking to buy drugs mis-dialed and got the sheriff’s “Crime Stoppers” line instead.

Erie County Sheriff’s Detective Alan Rozansky said he got a call around noon Monday and answered with his usual “Crime Stoppers.” The caller apparently didn’t hear that and told Rozansky he was looking “to score” drugs.

Rozansky told WIVB-TV that he was surprised but played along and arranged a meeting with undercover officers. The officers didn’t arrest the caller but used him as an informant to lead them to another transaction taking place down the road. There, police arrested a 35-year-old woman trying to sell her prescription painkillers to a Buffalo man.

Associated Press