ODDLY ENOUGH | Table, wine turn up on now-famous Miami sandbar

ODDLY ENOUGH

Table, wine turn up on now-famous Miami sandbar

MIAMI

First, a baby grand piano mysteriously showed up on a Miami sandbar. A day after it was removed, a small table with two chairs, place settings, a bottle of wine and a chef statue appeared on the now-famous strip of sand.

The latest prank has officials worried the sandbar could become a target for more mischief, and they are warning such activity is illegal. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission says anyone caught leaving items on the sandbar a few hundred yards from shore will be arrested.

A 16-year-old art student admitted that he put the piano on the sandbar in Biscayne Bay as part of an art project, and a crew removed it Thursday. The table for two also has been taken down.

Pennsylvania baby named for nearby college after car birth

ERIE, Pa.

An Erie-area couple has named their baby after the college they stopped in front of when the woman gave birth in their car on the way to the hospital.

Nathan and Kathy Brewer, of Harborcreek Township, say they considered naming their son Cam, because he was born in a Toyota Camry, or Otto, a play on the word “auto.” Instead, they settled on Asher Behrend Brewer — Asher being a biblical name and Behrend for Behrend College, a satellite campus in the Penn State system also known as Penn State Behrend.

The Brewers were driving to St. Vincent Health Center in Erie when the boy arrived unexpectedly at 12:20 a.m. Dec. 31.

Brewer tells the Erie Times-News he “didn’t do much” to assist his wife who was in the front passenger seat when she gave birth to their son, saying, “Basically, I just caught him.”

Police: NY mail carrier pinched discount coupons

WESTBURY, N.Y.

A mail carrier on New York’s Long Island is accused of pinching thousands of discount coupons intended for residents’ mailboxes.

Police say 38-year-old Thomas Tang of Baldwin stole more than 7,000 J.C. Penney Co. discount coupons he was supposed to deliver to the department store’s customers. Police say Tang then sold the coupons on eBay.

Tang was charged with grand larceny.

He pleaded not guilty at his arraignment Friday and was ordered held on $5,000 cash bail.

His attorney was not immediately available for comment.

The alleged theft occurred between October 2009 and this January.

Associated Press