Friday, March 16, 2012
oddly enough
Mass. urology practice offers pizza with vasectomy
BARNSTABLE, Mass.
Get a vasectomy, eat some pizza and watch some basketball.
That’s the idea behind a promotion by a Massachusetts urologists group that’s offering a free pizza to vasectomy patients during March Madness.
An administrator with Urology Associates of Cape Cod says it’s a lighthearted way to raise awareness about the procedure and drum up business.
Evan Cohen tells the Cape Cod Times that getting a vasectomy during the NCAA basketball tournament is the perfect time because typically a day or two of recovery is needed after the operation, so it gives patients an excuse to lie on the couch and watch hoops.
Dr. Evangelos Geraniotis, a urologist at the practice with offices in Hyannis, Sandwich and Nantucket, calls a vasectomy an “easy and less stressful” form of birth control.
Cops: Pa. clerk noticed stolen card was her mom’s
LANCASTER, Pa.
Police say a teen fraudster’s cunning credit-card plot was foiled by a Pennsylvania convenience-store clerk who noticed her own mother’s name on the card.
Manor Township police say the clerk also recognized the teen as a former classmate when he tried to use the card to buy gas early Tuesday morning.
Authorities say 19-year-old Joshua Devonshire fled but was spotted later apparently trying to put the stolen card back in the clerk’s mother’s car.
He eventually was taken into custody after being spotted sleeping in a car in the same development.
Investigators say they recovered several items from the car that were suspected to be stolen.
Devonshire is being held on $3,000 bail. It wasn’t immediately clear whether he had an attorney.
Colo. man ticketed after cat refuses to go for jog
LAFAYETTE, Colo.
Police in Lafayette, Colo., have ticketed a man who is accused of tying his cat to a rock after the feline refused to go jogging.
Sgt. Fred Palmer says 19-year-old Seth Franco brought his cat on a leash to the path around Waneka Lake Park on Wednesday, but the cat was unable to keep up.
According to the Boulder Daily Camera, witnesses told police that Franco secured the cat’s leash to a rock while he finished his run. A passer-by called police.
Franco was ticketed on suspicion of “domestic animal cruel treatment,” a municipal offense.
Palmer says an ordinance in the city, about 20 miles north of Denver, “prohibits that kind of tethering.”
The cat wasn’t injured, so it was released to its owner. Franco could not immediately be reached to comment.
Associated Press