oddly enough

oddly enough

76-year-old man trapped hunting for lottery ticket

AMSTERDAM

What are the odds?

A 76-year-old man trapped himself in an underground wastepaper container in Amsterdam after he clambered in to hunt for a lottery ticket.

Police said in a statement the elderly man managed to open the container and climb in Thursday because he feared he had tossed out a lottery ticket along with other used paper.

Passers-by heard him calling for help and alerted the police, who freed him with the help of firefighters.

The bad news? The man didn’t find his lottery ticket.

Police: Pa. man claims booze on his breath is a week old

ALTOONA, Pa.

Police say a central Pennsylvania man arrested for public drunkenness when he tried to report his cellphone had been stolen claimed that the booze officers smelled on his breath was a week old.

Altoona police didn’t buy that and say they also found brass knuckles, a small amount of marijuana and a pipe on 19-year-old John Ozio, before they decided to arrest him Dec. 23. Ozio’s public defender could not be reached to comment immediately.

He remained in Blair County Prison on Thursday, awaiting a Feb. 8 preliminary hearing on charges of carrying an illegal weapon, marijuana possession, public drunkenness, underage drinking and criminal mischief.

Police say Ozio claimed someone planted the marijuana pipe in his backpack and that he carried the brass knuckles as “protection from being jumped.”

Associated Press