ODDLY ENOUGH

ODDLY ENOUGH

Cops: NY man shoots friend in the leg — at his request

STOCKHOLM, N.Y.

Authorities say a northern New York man had his friend shoot him in the leg with a rifle because he wanted to know what it feels like to be shot.

State police in St. Lawrence County say the shooting occurred around 5 p.m. Sunday in the rural town of Stockholm when 25-year-old Shawn Mossow of neighboring Norfolk relented to his friend’s repeated requests and shot him once in the right leg with a .22-caliber rifle.

The 24-year-old man from Norfolk is expected to make a full recovery. Police haven’t released his name.

Mossow was charged with reckless endangerment. He’s being held in the county jail on $10,000 bail.

It could not be immediately determined if he had a lawyer.

Man is freed on bond but must read and write book reports

RICHMOND, Calif.

A man charged in an undercover sting operation in Northern California that ended in gunfire has been ordered to be released on bond on the condition that he read and write book reports.

U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers allowed 23-year-old Otis Mobley to be freed Monday, although she delayed an order to allow prosecutors to appeal her decision.

The San Francisco Chronicle reports that under the bond order, Mobley would be required to spend an hour reading and a half hour writing each day as he awaits trial on robbery and assault charges.

Mobley and two others are accused of arranging to sell a grenade launcher for $1,000 to an undercover federal agent in Richmond, Calif.

Hutcherson was shot and wounded by agents during the purported meeting.

French mystery: Hair dryers mailed to New Zealand

WELLINGTON, New Zealand

A mysterious benefactor in Paris is spreading love, cash and hair appliances along a rugged stretch of New Zealand.

Police are baffled by at least four packages that have been sent from different Paris addresses to residents of the South Island’s sparsely populated West Coast.

They contain either a hair dryer or hair clippers plus a sum of money — either $78 or $128.

Two of the packages came with identical handwritten notes: “Thanks for being a true friend.”

The packages have been received over the last two weeks.

“We are hoping it’s a random gesture of goodwill,” says police Senior Sgt. Allyson Ealam. “We have no cause to think there is any criminal connection.”

Associated Press