ODDLY ENOUGH

ODDLY ENOUGH

Laptop snaps thief’s photo, leading to his arrest

ANN ARBOR, Mich.

Open an app. See a flash. Get arrested.

Police in Michigan say a stolen laptop took a picture of the thief and sent it to a security website, leading to his arrest.

The computer’s owner, Logan Chadde, installed Orbicule security software before a recent break-in at his home in Ann Arbor.

Chadde told AnnArbor.com last Monday the program captured the thief using Facebook and talking with another person about how he was going to sell the stolen laptop. Chadde sent the information to police, who arrested a 19-year-old man.

Police Lt. Renee Bush says officers knew the suspect from an earlier encounter.

Chadde says such cases are frustrating, but “this is one of the few times the police had a lot of information to go off.”

W. Pa. groom, best man are pulled over in golf cart

CANONSBURG, Pa.

Police say they’ve pulled over a groom and his best man as they drove in a stolen golf cart from a western Pennsylvania country club wedding reception to a hotel.

Peters Township police Chief Harry Fruecht told the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review newspaper that Rolling Hills Country Club opted not to press charges for the pre-honeymoon hijinks recently.

The men were pulled over when an officer saw them driving a cart without headlights in the curb lane of a busy road just before midnight recently. The police chief says the men wanted to arrive at the hotel in the golf cart to surprise the other wedding guests, who took a shuttle.

Instead, both men will have memories of being cited for disorderly conduct. The groom also got a ticket for public drunkenness.

Goats removed from Conn. high school roof overhang

SIMSBURY, Conn.

Firefighters were called to a Connecticut high school for a goat removal.

The Hartford Courant reports that four goats were rescued by firefighters from an overhang above the entrance to Simsbury High School last week.

Officials say the goats may have been placed on the school as a senior prank.

Principal Neil Sullivan says the goats were discovered by a custodian about 5:30 a.m. Wednesday morning. No injuries were reported.

WVIT-TV reports they are pygmy goats from Flamig Farm, located about four miles away in West Simsbury.

Sullivan says they are working with police to discover who put the goats on the school, but said they don’t want to overreact to the incident.

Associated Press