ODDLY ENOUGH

ODDLY ENOUGH

Woman in Kansas is fined for repeated littering in 1 yard

LEAVENWORTH, Kan.

A Kansas woman ticketed for tossing her empty tea bottles in the same yard nearly every day for two years insists there was no malice involved.

The Lawrence Journal-World reported that Carole Green, of rural Bonner Springs, entered a guilty plea Friday to four counts of misdemeanor littering.

Green was ticketed after a man who lives about two miles east of her photographed her throwing empty tea bottles into the yard of his rural Leavenworth County home.

Green says the man’s yard just happened to be where she finished her tea each time. She also told the judge that if she had to do it over again, “of course, I wouldn’t do it.”

Judge Gunnar Sundby imposed fines of $1,200 plus court costs — the minimum amount for first-time offenders.

No one bothers to run in election in small NC town

TAR HEEL, N.C.

The races for mayor and three commission seats are wide open in the small North Carolina town of Tar Heel — because no one bothered to run.

No one has registered as a candidate for the fall elections in the Bladen County town. The story was first reported by WECT-TV.

The ballots will be printed with blank spaces for voters to write in their choices.

Current Mayor Ricky Martin says he’s not surprised no one wants the jobs. Even in a town of 117, it’s hard work with little compensation. And Martin says state budget cuts mean the next elected officials might have to raise taxes.

Cynthia Shaw, the director of the county’s board of elections, says it’s the first time she has seen an entire town without a candidate.

Police in Georgia shut down girls’ lemonade stand

MIDWAY, Ga.

Police in Georgia have shut down a lemonade stand run by three girls trying to save up for a trip to a water park, saying they didn’t have a business license or the required permits.

Midway Police Chief Kelly Morningstar says police also didn’t know how the lemonade was made, who made it or what was in it.

The girls had been operating for one day when Morningstar and another officer cruised by.

The girls needed a business license, peddler’s permit and food permit to operate, even on residential property. The permits cost $50 a day or $180 per year.

One girl, 14-year-old Casity Dixon, says the three had to listen to police and shut down.

The girls are now doing chores and yard work to make money.

Associated Press