oddly enough

oddly enough

Mass. woman finds baby bird with 2 heads and 3 beaks

NORTHAMPTON, Mass.

A Northampton woman made an unusual discovery in her yard — a deformed baby cardinal with two heads and three beaks.

April Britt says she found the bird near the base of a tree Monday and returned it to its nest.

The 67-year-old Britt tells the Daily Hampshire Gazette the bird apparently couldn’t eat without assistance from the adult birds. The middle beak didn’t work well, and the other two didn’t appear to be connected to the bird’s throat.

A scientist for the Massachusetts Audubon Society says animals with such abnormalities rarely survive birth, making the find all the more unusual. He says the deformities could have been caused by genetic or environmental factors.

The baby and adults were gone by Tuesday.

Police say Ohio woman broke into house to clean it

ELYRIA, Ohio

Police in suburban Cleveland say a woman who owns a cleaning service broke into a house and washed the dishes, took out the trash and vacuumed before leaving a handwritten bill with her name on it.

And police say it might not be the first time.

The woman, Sue Warren of Elyria, is in jail on a burglary charge.

Police in Westlake say Warren broke into a home last week and began tidying up, but she didn’t take anything. They say she then wrote out a bill for $75 on a napkin and included her name and address.

One officer says Warren told him she does it all the time.

A call to Warren’s cleaning business was not answered Thursday. It’s not immediately known if she has an attorney.

Associated Press