ODDLY ENOUGH | Salon can challenge rules in Arizona on fish pedicure

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Salon can challenge rules in Arizona on fish pedicure

PHOENIX

An Arizona appeals court says a business owner is entitled to challenge the constitutionality of state rules barring her from using fish in her salon pedicures.

The Arizona Court of Appeals ruled Friday that Cindy Vong can sue over the Arizona Board of Cosmetology’s threat to pull her license if she didn’t stop offering the pedicure, which uses fish to eat dead skin off clients’ feet.

The board alleged the fish were unsafe because they couldn’t be sterilized.

Conservative watchdog group The Goldwater Institute had filed a civil suit on her behalf, saying the board violated Vong’s right to run her business in the Phoenix suburb of Gilbert.

The lawsuit says the board lacks jurisdiction because the pedicure isn’t a cosmetic service.

A lower court had dismissed the suit.

Ohio DUI suspect keeps cop waiting at drive-through

NORTH ROYALTON, Ohio

Police in Ohio say a woman insisted on picking up some fast food before she allowed an officer to charge her with drunken driving.

The Plain Dealer newspaper of Cleveland reports police in suburban North Royalton got a call about a car weaving and going off a road at a little after 1 a.m. some time in April.

A patrolman tracked the vehicle to the drive-through of a Taco Bell restaurant and pulled up alongside.

The police report says the driver had sunglasses on and her speech was slurred.

She was ordered to get out of the line, but first she proceeded to the second window to grab her order.

Police say the woman’s blood-alcohol level tested at nearly twice the legal limit.

Rotting meat, not corpse, is found in Pa. storage unit

PITTSBURGH

Pittsburgh police say they found only rotting meat, not a corpse, after they were called to a self-storage facility by someone who reported a rancid odor.

Police went to Extra Space Storage in the city and found only several large paper bags of plastic-wrapped meat.

Police tell the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review that the unit was disinfected with bleach and hosed out by firefighters.

The manager of the business has declined to comment.

Associated Press