ODDLY ENOUGH

ODDLY ENOUGH

Guinness: Utah Undie Run sets a world record

SALT LAKE CITY

A protest of Utah’s uptight laws that featured people running through the streets of Salt Lake City in their underwear has set a world record.

Guinness World Records says the Utah Undie Run broke the previous record for largest gathering of people wearing only underpants or knickers by 1,720 people.

Records officials say 2,270 people stripped to their underwear during the Utah Undie Run on Sept. 24. The previous record of 550 people was set last year in Great Britain.

Utah Undie Run organizers are planning another run next August. The event’s goal is to protest the state’s conservative politics.

Organizers prohibit nudity. Participants donned bras, panties, nightgowns, swimwear or colorful boxer shorts.

Medical-pot user turned in by Colo. pizza-delivery man

DENVER

A Colorado man who got a visit from police after a pizza-delivery driver smelled marijuana at his home is getting free pizza from a rival restaurant.

Frederick Smith says police searched his home in Aurora after a Papa John’s International Inc. driver smelled marijuana there recently. The driver reported a child was in the home at the time.

Smith told Denver TV station KUSA-TV that he’s a registered medical-marijuana user. Papa John’s has said it stands by its employee.

One of its Denver-based rivals, Sexy Pizza, said that it would give Smith one free pizza monthly until Colorado voters decide a proposed 2012 ballot initiative that would legalize marijuana for recreational use.

Sexy Pizza says it’ll extend the offer for life if voters pass the initiative.

Pittsburgh zoo expert to seek alligator in reservoir

SLICKVILLE, Pa.

The reptile curator from the Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium says he’s going to try to rescue an alligator living in a western Pennsylvania reservoir.

Henry Kacpryzk said that won’t be easy because the Beaver Run Reservoir has 25 miles of shoreline and is 15 feet deep. Still, he’s hoping that warmer weather will help draw the animal into the sun. If that happens, the curator may be able to track the reptile using drag marks on the shore.

The Municipal Authority of Westmoreland County owns the reservoir about 35 miles northeast of Pittsburgh. Officials wanted to let the 5-foot-long alligator, which is likely a discarded pet, die when the weather turned colder. But a public outcry, including a Facebook page, caused officials to ask the zoo for help.

Associated Press