oddly enough

oddly enough

Mich. ‘Batman’ says he’s not guilty of obstructing cops

PETOSKEY, Mich.

A northern Michigan man charged with obstructing the police while dressed as Batman has pleaded not guilty.

State troopers arrested 33-year-old Mark Wayne Williams on Sept. 29 because he wouldn’t leave them alone while they searched for a driver who had fled an accident. Williams was charged with resisting and obstructing police in an investigation.

The Petoskey News-Review reports that Williams pleaded not guilty Thursday in District Court in Petoskey. He’s due back in court Nov. 21.

Williams has said he had good intentions.

It’s not Williams’ first brush with the law as the caped crusader. He was sentenced to six months of probation last year after police received a report of a man dressed as Batman on the roof of a Petoskey business.

Stunning meteor showers light up California sky

OAKLAND, Calif.

Streaking fireballs lighting up California skies and stunning stargazers are part of a major meteor shower, and the show is just getting started, professional observers said.

The Oakland Tribune reports the exploding streaks were especially visible Wednesday night over the San Francisco Bay area and other parts of Northern California, with reports of bright fireballs and loud booms from Santa Cruz County to Mendocino County.

“Happened to look over, saw like a crescent shaped object, reddish orange in color,” Edward Pierce told KGO-TV. “As it went away, it started getting larger — kind of expanding.”

Jonathan Braidman, an astronomer at Oakland’s Chabot Space and Science Center, told the station what Pierce and others saw were small, car-sized pieces of rock and metal from the asteroid belt.

It crashed through the earth’s atmosphere, “ionizing and setting the air on fire in its wake,” he said.

Diaper odor gets mom, baby kicked off Seattle bus

SEATTLE

A woman is complaining to the public transit authority that a driver kicked her off a bus in Seattle because of her baby’s stinky diaper.

Nichole Hakimian was taking her 1-year-old son to a clinic Tuesday because of an intestinal illness, KOMO News reported.

“He had just pooped in his diaper as soon as I got on, because he was having diarrhea,” she said. “And right after that, she told me I had to get off the bus.”

When Hakimian asked why, she said the Metro Transit driver said, “Your baby, he smells really bad, and it’s not fair that we all have to smell that.”

“I said, ‘My son is sick. I’m taking him to a doctor’s appointment.’”

Nonetheless, the driver stopped the bus and let her out about a half mile from the clinic, she said.

Associated Press