ODDLY ENOUGH | Idaho woman has 1/11/11 baby at 11:11 a.m.

ODDLY ENOUGH

Idaho woman has 1/11/11 baby at 11:11 a.m.

MERIDIAN, Idaho

Tyler Ashton Marx’s lucky number is going to be one, or 11, or maybe both.

The son of Jared and Leslie Marx was born at 11:11 a.m. on Jan. 11, 2011, at St. Luke’s Meridian Medical Center in Meridian, Idaho.

Jared Marx is serving in Iraq and watched his son’s birth over the Internet.

Leslie Marx tells KTVB-TV that Tyler was born just as the clock switched to 11:11 a.m.

But Tyler Marx isn’t the only one in the family with a memorable birthday. His older sister was born Sept. 9, 2009 — 9/9/09.

A Minnesota couple’s daughter was born Tuesday with one less one. Amy Zeller and Codjo Mensah welcomed Flora Mensah to the world at 1:11 a.m.

Okla. boy’s tongue gets stuck on pole

WOODWARD, Okla.

In a scene straight from the movie “A Christmas Story,” an 8-year-old Oklahoma boy got his tongue stuck to a metal pole after he licked it on a dare.

Officials say when rescue crews arrived Tuesday morning, the boy was standing on his tiptoes, trying to wriggle his frozen tongue free from a stop-sign pole across the street from Woodward Middle School.

Paramedics were able to help the boy by pouring water on his tongue. Once free, the boy told officials he got stuck after his brother dared him to lick the pole.

The boy was taken to a Woodward hospital for treatment.

The scene was similar to one in “A Christmas Story,” a 1983 movie adapted from Jean Shepard’s memoir of a boy in the 1940s.

Erie judge nixes DUI involving border agent

ERIE, Pa.

U.S. Border Patrol agents can safeguard the country’s borders, but not stop drunk drivers.

So says Erie County Judge John Garhart who Tuesday threw out evidence against Corrine Breon, an Erie woman arrested after city police say she drove with a blood-alcohol content three times the legal limit Jan. 16, 2010.

Breon was charged by Erie police after she was first stopped by a U.S. Border Patrol agent.

The Erie Times-News say the agent followed Breon after she allegedly ran him off the road. The agent blocked Breon from exiting her driveway and used his emergency lights before calling police.

County prosecutors say the charges should stand because Erie police based the arrest on their observations, but the judge agreed with her attorney that the illegal stop nullified the later evidence.

Associated Press