Oddly Enough

ODDLY ENOUGH

1,000 rescued rats are up for adoption in California

SAN JOSE, Calif.

About a thousand rats are awaiting adoption in California after being rescued from a house featured on the A&E reality-TV show “Hoarders.”

The Humane Society trucked the rodents over the weekend from Los Angeles to San Jose, where more than 30 volunteers and nonprofit staff helped move the rats into Andy’s Pet Shop in San Jose, which agreed to temporarily house them.

Lauren Paul of the nonprofit North Star Rescue told the San Jose Mercury News that the previous owner’s daughter had brought home a pregnant rat one day and the litter began multiplying quickly.

The man’s neighbors called “Hoarders” producers after the rats began tearing apart the house.

Paul says she hopes rat lovers will come forward and give them a new home.

Rowdy Pa. school bus makes a stop at a police station

SWISSVALE, Pa.

A Pittsburgh-area school district is promising to discipline some junior-high students who got so rowdy their bus driver made an unscheduled stop at a police station to quiet them down.

Woodland Hills School District spokeswoman Maria McCool said the incident happened Friday when the driver for A.J. Myers and Sons was taking students home from an after-school activity about 5 p.m.

McCool said the driver stopped at the Swissvale police station, where an officer quieted the students. Some students opted to walk home from the station. McCool said no students were ejected from the bus, and all were offered rides home or were given the option of calling their parents.

McCool said the district still is trying to determine how many students were involved and how they’ll be disciplined.

Men hold up NY pizza makers, then flee with wrong dough

NEW YORK

Police in New York City say thieves held up the owners of a pizzeria and then fled with a bag of full dough — the kind that crusts are made of.

Police say Salvatore LaRosa was charged with robbery after surrendering to police.

According to court papers, LaRosa and an accomplice followed the owners of Brothers Pizzeria on Staten Island. After donning masks, the papers say, they pointed guns and demanded the men turn over a bag they believed held the day’s proceeds.

But instead, the bag was full of pizza dough.

LaRosa was released on $1 million bail Monday. His attorney, James Froccaro, declined to comment.

Associated Press