oddly enough

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‘Zombies’ invade New York during morning rush hour

NEW YORK

As if the morning commute wasn’t odd enough, intrepid New Yorkers trying to make their way to work Tuesday had to battle past hordes of the walking dead.

Two dozen zombies, their clothes spattered with fake blood, were staggering up and down the block outside Madison Square Garden. Downtown, others shuffled across the Brooklyn Bridge.

Some pedestrians looked startled or amused by the ghost-white actors with bruised-looking eyes. Some people ignored them entirely. Others whipped out their cell-phone cameras.

Horror-movie fan Linda Emery was thrilled to see the creatures.

“I’m into zombies, anything with zombies,” said the 58-year-old home-care provider from Brooklyn. It made a change from her usual commute.

“You see a lot of stuff, but not this stuff,” she said.

Man eating nothing but potatoes has fill of spuds

MOSES LAKE, Wash.

The Washington state man who’s on a 60-day all-potato diet wishes he would have set a goal of one month instead of two.

Chris Voigt told the Tri-City Herald that — as good and healthful as potatoes are — there’s only so many ways they can be prepared.

And, about halfway through his tuber diet, he’s had them boiled, baked, steamed, grilled, fried, marinated and mashed.

The Moses Lake man is executive director of the Washington Potato Commission and is on a mission to prove spuds aren’t junk food.

Ohio radio host, witch doctor try to curse LeBron James

CLEVELAND

A radio host in Cleveland has hired a witch doctor in an attempt to send some bad mojo to basketball star LeBron James after he ditched the Cavaliers to play for the Miami Heat.

WMMS-FM broadcast the hex ceremony Tuesday morning, hours before the Heat’s season opener in Boston.

The radio station says a witch doctor used bones, blood and a James jersey to cast a curse on the two-time MVP.

The host of “Rover’s Morning Glory” says it’s payback for the way James called it quits with the Cavs earlier this year.

Mailing of mummy stopped

LA PAZ, Bolivia

Bolivian police say they’ve detained a woman who tried to mail a mummy to France.

Police Col. Adolfo Cardenas said Tuesday a Peruvian woman tried to send the human remains from a post office in the town of Desaguadero along the Peruvian border. The destination was in the French city of Compiegne.

The mummy was discovered in a routine check of the package.

Associated Press