ODDLY ENOUGH

ODDLY ENOUGH

Austrian drives flaming car to fire station

VIENNA

Some Austrian firefighters didn’t have to leave their station to deal with a recent alarm.

The blaze came to them instead.

Fireman Roland Brandl says that colleagues were doing chores at the station in the town of Pregarten on Wednesday when a car sped in with flames shooting from beneath it.

One man grabbed an extinguisher and doused the fire.

No one was hurt.

The blaze apparently was caused by a cleaning cloth which was left under the hood.

State broadcaster ORF says the unidentified driver drove less than a mile to the station after a passer-by alerted him to the fire.

For sale in NYC: Fridge with a pretty morbid history

NEW YORK

It’s a fridge big enough for a family of four.

New York’s Office of General Services has turned to eBay in an attempt to sell off a huge, steel morgue refrigerator now located at a Manhattan psychiatric hospital.

Bidding on Saturday afternoon was up to $475 for the four-drawer unit, but that price doesn’t include delivery.

Buyers have to be willing to remove the fridge themselves from the Manhattan Psychiatric Center.

Office of General Services spokeswoman Heather Groll told the New York Post that the ad is no hoax.

She says the agency does get unusual surplus items to sell from time to time, including barber chairs from prisons and police cars, but she doesn’t recall a previous sale of a morgue cooler.

The auction runs through Thursday.

Ohio police say streaker hid in neighbor’s dryer

CINCINNATI

A Cincinnati man has been given a jail outfit to wear after being arrested on a charge that he ran naked into his street while drunk, then took refuge in a dryer.

Police say 39-year-old Shaun Welsh caused alarm early Wednesday when he ran without any clothes on in his neighborhood.

They said he was found hiding in a neighbor’s dryer.

Welsh pleaded no contest to a charge of disorderly conduct while intoxicated.

He was ordered to remain in jail for five days.

A message was left Thursday for his attorney.

Associated Press