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Cemetery copes with deer eating grave-site flowers

WILMINGTON, Del.

Administrators of one Delaware cemetery are asking visitors to bring artificial flowers to grave sites, saying hungry deer are eating fresh floral arrangements there.

The News Journal of Wilmington, Del. reports that All Saints Cemetery has installed signs suggesting visitors bring faux foliage. Artificial floral arrangements also are being sold now at a cemetery office.

An assistant superintendent at the cemetery says groundskeepers have tried to keep the pesky deer away from funeral flowers by spraying them with a deer deterrent and covering them at night. But the official says problems with the hungry deer seem to have gotten worse this year.

The plea comes at a peak cemetery visitation time for relatives and others paying respects to deceased loved ones around Christian observances of Palm Sunday and Easter.

Washington state sewage plant advertises wedding availability

WOODINVILLE, Wash.

A sewage-treatment plant near Seattle is advertising its availability as a wedding venue.

The Brightwater Wastewater Treatment Center says on Facebook it has a full catering kitchen, audio-video equipment, dance floor and ample parking.

You can even have the wedding outside.

The director of the Brightwater Environmental Education and Community Center, Susan Tallarico, tells KIRO that receptions would take place just steps away from where raw sewage is processed. She says there’s no odor because all the processing is contained.

The King County plant was finished three years ago but has been available for rent for about seven months.

It costs $2,000 to rent the center for eight hours. One couple already has booked the sewage plant for their nuptials.

NC man sentenced to jail for sucking woman’s toes

LINCOLNTON, N.C.

A North Carolina man who sucked an unwilling woman’s toes inside a Walmart has been sentenced to 60 days in jail.

Michael Anthony Brown apologized for his actions during his court appearance Thursday. He was convicted of assault, but a judge agreed to subtract from the sentence the three weeks Brown has spent behind bars.

Police said the 31-year-old Brown told the victim he was a podiatry student and asked her to try on shoes for him in the shoe department of the Walmart in Lincolnton last month.

Investigators said Brown eventually stuck the woman’s foot in his mouth and sucked on her toes, then offered to pay for her groceries after she appeared outraged.

Brown was apprehended at his home in Concord and turned over to Lincolnton police.

Associated Press