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Naked unicyclist charged for distracting drivers

KEMAH, Texas

Police say a man arrested in a Southeast Texas city for riding his unicycle in the nude was distracting drivers and creating a hazard.

Kemah police Chief Greg Rikard says 45-year-old Joseph Glynn Farley was not intoxicated or impaired when he was arrested Wednesday on a bridge in the city 20 miles southeast of Houston.

Rikard says Farley had been falling off the unicycle and into traffic.

Farley told officers that he liked the feeling of riding without his clothes, which were found at the base of the bridge.

Police charged Farley, of Clear Lake, with misdemeanor indecent exposure. Bond is set at $1,500.

Online jail records did not list an attorney for Farley.

W. Pa. man sentenced for harboring wallaby

BUTLER, Pa.

A western Pennsylvania man won’t talk about the location of a mysterious wallaby.

The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reports that 60-year-old Kenneth G. Ott of Butler, about 30 miles north of Pittsburgh, declined to comment Thursday after a judge sentenced him to a year’s probation on charges of tampering with evidence and unlawful importation of a wallaby, a kangaroolike creature native to Australia.

The paper reports that last year, a Pennsylvania Game Commission officer saw a wallaby at Ott’s home.

When the conservation officer returned several days later, the wallaby was gone.

Defense attorney Jeffrey P. Myers says Ott won’t reveal where the wallaby is but says that it is being well cared for.

Ott pleaded no contest in the case, which means he doesn’t admit guilt but won’t contest the wallaby charges.

Calico lobster on display at New England Aquarium

BOSTON

So you think blue lobsters are rare? The New England Aquarium is holding a lobster that’s way rarer than that.

The aquarium in Boston says it has a calico lobster that could be a 1-in-30 million find.

The lobster is dark with bright orange and yellow spots.

It was caught off Winter Harbor, Maine, and is being held at the New England Aquarium for the Biomes Marine Biology Center, a science center in Rhode Island.

Aquarium spokesman Tony Lacasse says calico lobsters are quite rare.

The Maine-based Lobster Conservancy says perhaps one lobster in 1 million is blue, while both the orange and calico versions might be as rare as 1 in 30 million.

Associated Press